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Groupie

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  The first time I heard this word was when Drake called someone a groupie in one of his songs, I did not check for the meaning until an influencer talked about it recently The google definitions are too extreme and derogatory but in the context of what I'm talking about a groupie can be someone who always wants to be with the "happening guys". After pondering about it for a couple of days I realized we might be and this mentee, mentor, networking, your association rave in Nigeria might have turned most of us to “groupies” in a way. The need to follow the latest popping person, enter their dms and introduce yourself, ask them to mentor you or to just be able to say I know them, bla bla bla   is turning some of us into something else I don’t have much to say but I pray we remember that as we appreciate the light in others, their talents and gifts, we'll never  lose sight of the light, talents and gifts we carry too. Appreciate them but focus on making your light
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Romantic Novels and I

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  Growing up I had a lot of sisters and one in particular was almost addicted to romantic novels. As someone that shared her love for books, I started to read them without her permission and those books made my imaginations go places I could not tell anyone and after burning several novels(my efforts to stop reading them),I finally got free in SS1 and since then till 500 level, at the sight of brown paper, I   RUN. Some weeks ago, I walked into my course mate’s room and saw two romantic novels, I shared my experience and applauded myself when I felt no temptation to go back to them. Today, I had a really rough day, and I just wanted something to take my mind off things. So I went to my course mates room, picked one book “I have a bible full of stories on my bed but it’s the novel I went for, mtcheww” and started reading, in less than 20 minutes your girl was done with the book. How? Well, the things that made blood rush through my veins, pissed me off. I mean the love was so p
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Hiding from God

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  My exams on Wednesday and Friday had not gone as planned both of them left me feeling like I did not read enough, I felt like a failure and had no interest in showing my face to God at the thanksgivings done after every exam in chapel. Nevertheless, my course mate motivated me to attend the thanksgiving towards the end on Friday. As I sat talking to God during worship. I realized something about myself. I am the kind that when I fail, my first instinct is to hide, work hard get a better result before showing myself again. When I did not do so well in my exam on Wednesday, my instinct was to work hard and do better in the next exam before talking to God again. As if, I was trying to prove that my better performance made me worthy to ask for his help in the previous and next exam (angels should make the lecturer favour my papers, since that’s my last resort). And I realized that if truly I was God’s child and representative, I am meant to report to him after each exam whether it wa
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I ALMOST CHEATED

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    Are you writing AEC 511 or FSN? This lecturer was using his loud voice to scare away the formulas and answers I had used hours to store in my memory, I felt like telling him to keep quiet but remembered that it was getting pissed at the invigilator in my last exam for doing the same thing that made my memory disorganized so I calmed down. I could not really picture my note to remember methods of data collection and their examples as well as the formulas for Kruka Wallis tests and spearman rank correlational coefficient in 5c and 5d. After putting down the parts my memory could offer, I was so frustrated. The three questions were 16 marks altogether and forgetting the formulas meant I was getting at least 4 marks. So for a split second I thought “I wish I could go into the toilet and check my note for the formulas” The thought was shocking. This was the first time that I had boldly completed any thought on cheating since that embarrassing time in JSS1 (my first Agric test,
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