Earlier today, I had gone to visit a friend and part of the conversation we had was him telling me of his plans to go visit his uncle soon and stay there for a few days before coming back. When he said that, I found myself wishing it was me because I've always wanted to go somewhere to go relax and reset for a few days but unfortunately, I haven't really built any form of relationship with my aunties and uncles that stay around, so I have no where to go.

Worrying sometimes can cause more damage than the initial problem we were worrying about. So if you don't have a natural solution, don't go do something stupid because you just might make things worse.photo by Massimiliano Sarno

There was a point in my young life when I felt I was suffering from amnesia and trust me when I say that it was a very scary feeling.photo by Mads Schmidt RasmussenThis was during back in high school. You see, in Nigeria, we have JSS1 to JSS3 which basically is known as Junior secondary school and then there is the SS1 to SS2 which also is known as senior secondary school, but before you will be able to cross over from jss to SS, there's something known as Pre Ss1, which basically is the school preparing you for the senior secondary school.

It's crazy how the human minds works sometimes because there are times when we want something, but we know that thing isn't good for us, so we ask you to lie to us, to tell us that they're good, even though we know they're not, just so that we can convince ourselves that just because you said that thing is good for us, means it's good for us.

There's a clarity of mind that comes after chaos or after something terrible just finished happening, that we don't talk about it quite often.photo by Iulia MihailovAfter last night when I was approached by the guy who has a gambling problem, he had said something to me that kinda stuck. He said that right after he was done using all of his money, that was when his eyes opened, almost like he had been blindfolded this whole time, and now he could see perfectly clear the mistakes he had made and how dumb he was to make them.

Today is probably the first time a guy my age walked up to me, almost close to tears, to ask me for help on how he can stop an addiction.photo by Mishal IbrahimThey say the first step to solving a problem is first admitting that you do have a problem, but what they don't tell you is that sometimes, that's the easiest part, because what comes next is mostly always difficult, it all just depends on what the problem is.