Category: Change moments
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The year away from home that changed my life & changed my game
In the quest for independence, is it not amazing how we all wish our lives away? Oh so eager to leave home, so we can make decisions sans parental “Interference”. Yet hindsight tells us how good those carefree, decision-free times actually were.
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The lesson I learned from Yaya, the painter who never came back
After once hearing it said that your quality of life can be measured by the communities you belong in, I have realised that I am very well, even wealthy, in the glow of my neighbourhood. We know each other.
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The close shave that brought me & my teenage son together
His mom had procured him a four blade swivel razor, like something out of Star Wars. He scrapes his chin and another being emerges.
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An independent adult’s guide to getting hopelessly lost in the desert
There’s a ghost town at Sharjah just outside Dubai, at a place on the map where a whole lot of nothing fills the view forever. The tiny outpost has drowned in the dusky red dunes over the years, abandoned now so that only the odd building rises half-heartedly through the sand.
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The day I shook the hand of a mythical man named Madiba
All the children, lined up at the back of the church. He had wanted to greet each and every one personally.
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The things I learned about life, change, & balance by embracing independence
Independence is a wonderful and alluring thing. But there’s a catch. With independence, comes risk and consequences. So it isn’t always the easiest way to live life.