What if your blessings are taken away? What if your blessings vanish? What if your blessings slowly and inexorably disappear? That is an almost impossible situation to imagine. It hurts me to even think about it as I write these lines. I couldn’t possibly imagine losing everything I have. It terrifies me to my very …
Month: July 2019
YOU CANNOT TELL…
You cannot tell people how to feel. You cannot say “hey, you should feel like this” or “you must feel this way” or even say “you shouldn’t feel like this”. That is none of your goddamn business. Other people’s feelings are other people’s feelings. Telling others how to feel is an invasion, the worst kind …
THE SUM NEVER LIES.
Think of any person. This exercise works better if it is someone you know so, please play along. Now, draw two columns and name one “good” and the other “bad”. Underline them and let the game begin. Think of the positive and negative things that person has done to you or for you and mark …
IT HAS BEEN A YEAR AND TWO DAYS.
My phone rang on April 24th, 2018 at 8am. The ring itself startled me but it didn’t wake me. I was up already. Well, in the spirit of transparency, I was up because I hadn’t slept all night. Allow me to shed some light into my predicament so you could understand better the situation. In …
THROW CAUTION TO THE WIND.
"I wanna do..." "What I really wanna do is..." "I wish I could..." “One day, I will…” Those are the sentences that kept me from sharing my writing and my stories. There is a fear that hides behind those sentences; the fear of the unknown. I can tell you, it is quite a potent fear, …
Freeman Binagana 