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Sadness, the flower

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If we were to put colour to sadness it would be a great lilac colour, maybe with streaks of blue and yellow with a hummingbird floating on top, in anticipation of the bitterness coming forth from the stems. Maybe it would be like a painting of an impending mist, or a sad song suspended in the air, frozen by time, only to be thawed by momentary flashes of brilliance that will turn all the seers blind. Sadness is a flower whose beauty can only be beheld by those lucky enough to have flown under its wings. To some it is the black rose, to others the daffodils. To some it is the invigorating smell of existence but to others carrion, a beautiful death. Sadness is the unfurling of the rare flower that permits one to see the redness of the petals and the blackness of its soft underbelly, that reminds us of life and its nuances, the little things that we ignore and the fickle things that we love. Maybe for some sadness is a gift. The soft petals of forever rain, the m...
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How Social Media Has Poisoned Your Life

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A stock photo of various social media platforms on a screen. I was reading the August 2020 Issue of UK’s Red Magazine and came across British author Laura Jane Williams speaking about her journey towards overcoming social media addiction and how her life changed thereafter. The author, who took a hundred days off the platforms, admitted to the difficulty she had to go through when she made the decision, carefully painting a picture of the anxiety many of us would undergo should the platforms be yanked away from us at a moment’s notice, showing just how far too we are entrenched in these cesspools. “ Feeling seen, understood and liked was addictive. But then stuff unfolded in my personal life that I had to keep offline and doing so revealed just how wonderful having secrets can be. I don’t have to tell everyone everything. Some things are too delicate. Too special ,” she told Red UK. These sentiments were echoed by Ezra Klein , the founder of one of the fastest-...
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Do it NOW or NEVER do it at All

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A stock photo of a tide in the ocean with the moon in the background. There is that one thing that most of us don’t seem to constantly remember, the fact that we walk this road but once. That every day that goes by brings us closer to our end and further from our beginning. Many of us have developed the habit of pushing the things we need to do today to tomorrow forgetting that tomorrow is never promised.  One wise man's words ring true every day; "If you did not do it today, what makes you think that you will do it tomorrow?" There is only one answer to the puzzle of life. Do it now. If it is that business you have been dreaming of starting, do it now. The time is ideal, and I am saying it in every sense of the word.  There might be no money right now but don’t tell me that there is no time. What you cannot directly do due to factors beyond your control, take time to study to the finest details so that money finds the dinner table well laid and the stom...
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