Trying Times

Boy oh boy, the situation that I am going through right now in my life...

People always say there is light at the end of the tunnel but they never say how long or how dark that tunnel will seem. They never say how bleak your situation will feel when you're trudging through the train tracks in the tunnel, one hurdle after another and it feels like an endless battle.

Which is why I chose to focus on my problem-solver rather than the problem itself.

It's when a situation seems impossible,unbearable and completely out of your control that God gets the chance to waltz right in and show Himself in full glory.

It's when the need for His intervention is dire that He can manifest miracles in ways you could never have imagined.

There's a test in every testimony. Don't let the test distract you from the success story around the corner.

CHIN UP!

Rape.

Just the word is abhorrent. Not to talk of the act itself. So inhumane yet so freakishly recurrent; it's frightening. Statistics say that women are raped everyday. 

What worries me most is that it seems like the society is becoming desensitized to rape; maybe it's the frequency of occurrence, maybe it's the women that lie about it happening to them. Who knows. 

Whatever the reason, it's inexcusable.  Rape never has a right. So what if she was wearing a short skirt or she drank too much - does that mean she loses the right to her own body?

SCORA = Standing Committee On Reproductive health and Aids. SCORA is a branch of the International Federation of Medical Students and there is one in Nigeria, SCORA-NG. We work against the rising number of rape cases and other issues detrimental to reproductive health. 

We need YOUR help. By supporting us in any way, be it by notifying us about any issue related to reproductive health and aids in Nigeria, educational supplies, financial aid or otherwise - it is very welcome. 

Join the fight against rape. Support #SCORA 

For further enquiries/sponsorship please email: scora.nimsa@gmail.com

Or simply drop a comment below as I'm part of the SCORA-NG's Public Relations Team :)

Thank you for your support :)

“I just want to be your friend”

So you saw a beautiful girl on your friend’s BBM Contact list and decided you had to talk to her, so you took her BBM Pin without telling your friend. First Offence.

Next, she accepts the add, as any normal girl would, on the off chance that it’s an old friend who now uses a nickname she isn’t familiar with. You start talking to her and refuse to tell her where you got her details from with the good old “I forgot whose phone I got it from” line. Second offence.

Now, you DEMAND for her attention and quick responses all because you’ve dropped the “I just want to be your friend” line. Gross offence.

Because this is such a recurrent situation I feel it is high time this issue is addressed. If you do not know someone you have NO right to his or her time. Any time given to you is out of courtesy and you should utilize it wisely. If you notice the person isn’t interested – TAKE A HINT! Don’t become a burden. This is the social age, it takes very little effort to delete and block someone, believe me.

So before you go off to annoy another fine girl, take time.