March 29th,
Friday.
Now, March 31st,
Sunday.
I started this newsletter after so much procrastination because there was no light and social media(especially IG and Pinterest) seems to be holding me down. What’s up with you guys and how are you guys doing? I’ll tell you how I feel shortly. Read further.
Recap of the week:
This edition of the newsletter is a little bit tough for me compared to the last one that I published. The difference? I wrote down everything that happened throughout the week so I did not have to start writing and cracking my brain at the same time. But here I am, trying to recall what happened and I am no good at it(my friends refer to me as 8 seconds attention span/memory retention). Let me pick up the bits and put them together.
First, I carefully selected what days I would attend lectures because the economic situation of the country is bad and I see no reason why I attend lectures when I do not get or understand what the lecturers are saying. Yes, I am dissing the Nigerian academic and economic situation at the same time and they deserve it. I had issue with the laptop I use and I had to fix it so yeah, I did that too and in the process, I updated to windows 11 and I wont lie, I am loving the interface baby.
Secondly, I didn’t pretend to be who I am not one Sunday evening. I was me and I was happy about that. I finished the book I was reading ‘‘The secret lives of Baba Segi’s wives” a book by Lola Shoneyin and I recommend. I have been loving books by nigerian authors recently and yes, I know I am saying this for the one millionth time( if there’s a word like that). I also started my anime movie thing and to start, I watched “Spiderman into the Spiderverse”, I never imagined I would love it the way I did but yes I did. I am not good at movies and books descriptions or summary so please forgive me but I do recommend the movie as well.
And Lastly, I fell ill and it lasted for a while so I lost some weight and I was less active. The heat also decided that It would not let anyone rest, good or bad so I dealt with that. I tapped into a bad habit that I had not practiced for four years and I’m looking for ways to tame that devil again. I’m done with my Q1 activities and let’s just say things didn’t go as planned but we move on to Q2 and expect something better, I was quite motivated this month.
Can you dislike and like someone at the same time? I am genuinely curious because I can’t explain what it is I am feeling and I know that they are both genuine feelings, and definitely not fake.
Podcast:
Psych, If you think I dropped an episode for the past two weeks, then you thought wrong because I did not. The algorithm has been so bad and I just wasn’t motivated by the results of this month so I decided to pause for a while and look into it. I did find a little bit of loopholes but I still do not think that I had to suffer like that.
Well, you could check out every other episode that I have ever published. The link? I know it’s disrespectful but you could check it in past newsletters. This is how discouraged I am.
On the Edition:
This issue of the newsletter has to do with PERSPECTIVE. Seeing things from other people’s lens-everyone is meant to have an opinion. I decided to get less offended by the things people say or do these days even if they do not sit well with me or are wrong just because I am seeing things from their own perspective. I am someone who have varying beliefs and a different eye to a lot of things, hence why perspective really matters to me. Do not downplay, underate, or underestimate my opinion or my own view of the matters, you accept it, you suggest kindly, or you keep quiet.
Again, I have discovered that a situation that occurred or happened consists of two parties and therefore has to be seen from both lens. As one who is easily and most often misunderstood, I always have a different side of the story to a particular situation and if an outsider of that issue makes a judgement based of off what he or she has heard from one side I get validly offended even if I am the one side. I think that there should always be space to accommodate the other side even after judgement. I see and want to understand where you are coming from is all that would do.
I do not know if any episodes would be up throughout the month of April for so many important reasons. Well, this is the end of the edition. Have a wonderful April, mine is choked.
P.S.: I dislike the word “narratives”. Commonly used in my industry.
With Love,
Tabss.