The New Adults

How to maintain peace in this covid era P eace to me is maintaining calmness at heart despite challenges holding on to your trust in God . Due to this pandemic, we are exposed to anxiety and fear especially mothers who now have degrees in corona studies. To me, worrying is simply overworking my mind, analyzing an issue I have no control over. Regarding Covid-19, there is nothing we can do except for doctors or scientist or government officials (decision makers geng) if you are just a normal citizen like me it is easy to allow anxiety and fear have its way into your heart but don’t. God has promised us peace and I found this in Philippians 4:6-8 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” When I feel very worried about issues, I can’t control, I talk to God (sincerely explai

M an, know thyself To know thyself is the beginning of all wisdom – Socrates We all pride ourselves with our knowledge about several things on earth, physics, biology, metrology, virology etc. But we spend less time studying God’s greatest creation that can translate thoughts to words and action, emotions to tears, or generally the unseen to seen, store past events called memories and several other unbelievable things on their own.   Psychology is the only research that can be carried out by every person simply because every specie is special in the way it operates. What is special about each person? the way we talk, laugh, walk, reason, communicate, interpret and assimilate information, our talents etc. It’s really necessary for every human to take time out to study themselves because we are going to be with ourselves for a long time and inorder to efficiently achieve our dreams.  One important factor in order to know ourselves is for us to analyse and underst

Movies...are they just a form of entertainment? Movies are a common means of entertainment. For me, instead of chocolates or those other things girls crave for you can give me nice movies, I even prefer it to food (sometimes) . Movies are known to help people relax, laugh etc. I actually use movie s to motivate myself to read especially on days that the vibe is not there, I tell myself if you read all your courses today then I’ll allow you to watch movies through out the night, this promise alone makes me so happy and motivated. I don’t know if it works for only me. But the big question is, is there more to these movies, are they teaching something, changing our opinion about something, bringing to light a particular issue and have I been able to identify and understand the message, they are trying to pass across? My friend and I watched a particular south Korean movie “parasite” and we had several valid opinions about the movie. To my friend the movie simply did n

Born Again As we grow into adulthood, we tend to have a desire to find the truth for ourselves, and stop depending on what we’ve been told. As a growing teenager I started to have reasons why I wanted to find God for myself, to know if he really exists and what he was really about. In church, I was told that if I am not born again when Jesus comes, I would go to hell. Therefore, I confessed that Christ is my lord and saviour several times: when I lied, watched a movie about hell, wanted him to answer my prayers, listened to preachings or when I was just unsure of my salvation. I realized that I was always lying and doing what God hates so I was always confessing and promising that I would change my ways. I got into a Christian university where the salvation message was always preached and I was always told I could access God once I become his child so I answered the altar call again, but the issue was after answering the altar call what next?   I stopped listening to se

“Inside” life: what do I do with this break😟? Staying at home to chill and escape school or work is exciting but being confined in any space for a long time becomes frustrating because naturally as humans we are social beings and it is also an infringement on our human rights (freedom of Movement). I have been practically inside the house for about 3 weeks even though I’m in Ibadan (A written law by the mother of the house😩) and in these three weeks I have been excited about the sudden holiday, rested, frustrated, cried and gotten tired. At first, I was waking up by 10am so that the day would run out fast but now that we attend covenant hour of prayer by 5:30😴, I have no choice but to look for actual things to do. After the first week I decided to do other things aside sleeping, cooking and watching movies. Therefore, I downloaded an animation app but I gave up when I saw y and x axis 😢(asin I gave up graphs after secondary school), I guess I downloaded the wron

Are you a wealthy youth? My friends and I were having a good laugh😂 about our poor money decisions and it was so funny how wise girls like us could make such decisions. We all had the big dream of being young and rich🤑 but we weren’t. We spent money on bags, shoes, weaves, makeup, entertainment and clothes that made us happy for a day or two and then we returned to being broke girls, our bank accounts and stomachs were rich for a second but at least we could get away with looking rich for a long time. I had always asked myself in my broke state, can I enjoy myself and satisfy my wants without getting nairaless at the end of the day or do I always have to sacrifice one for the other? after reading Arese Ugwu’s book “The smart money woman” I got my answer. I realized that as an evolving youth our wants range increase and one of the responsibilities of an adult is to manage finances while satisfying desires. In order to do this, we need to gain knowledge on savi