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AN OUTSIDER’S DIARY
Life as a black AuDHD man. Some days I wonder what it feels like to belong. Not simply to exist in a place, but to arrive somewhere and never once question whether I deserve to be there. I have spent so much of my life trying to find that feeling that I sometimes wonder whether… Continue reading
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Visibility is no longer vanity but a responsibility.
Quiet, Polite, Measured, Humble. That was the version of me that was most likable. The version that believed that having an opinion was dangerous, and expressing it was arrogance. I thought strength should always be hidden because anything visible risked becoming pride, where I come from, people mistake timidity for humility and silence for virtue.… Continue reading
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“Behold, old things are become new”
I have become almost unrecognisable to most people. They use to know someone quiet, easygoing, agreeable, and maybe cutely naive. That version of me was real however, the last 3 years was a roller coaster. Hardship became my teacher, pain, my education, and somewhere along that journey, I found parts of me that have always… Continue reading
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Captain Masifa.
I am an incredibly difficult yet the simplest person there is; I don’t need anyone to tell me that. I don’t like people, and the feeling is very mutual. In fact, when I was about to get married, people who knew me personally actually felt sorry for Captain. The one question they kept asking was,… Continue reading
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I AM A FAILURE
I often tell people that I am a failure in life, but I’ve never quite found the right words to explain what I truly mean. Hopefully, this will. My productivity falls far off the scale of my abilities. To be clear, I do not have unrealistic expectations of myself and I do not put undue… Continue reading
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As a kid, I drank from this very stream. The water smelled strongly cow piss. In fact, during dry seasons, we had to dig through the sand to reach water level deep down. Brown water, filled with debris and things no human should survive on. Yet we drank it anyways. I often say that I… Continue reading
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“Know Thyself”
If I open my wardrobe and realise, I don’t have a brand new plain white or black t-shirt sitting there, unused, untouched, just existing, I can have a full-blown panic attack. There’s something about plain t-shirts that I cannot explain, it’s almost spiritual. The feeling when I wear a brand new fitted t-shirt is unmatched.… Continue reading
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My First IELTS Reading Tutorial
I uploaded my very first YouTube video today, an IELTS Reading module tutorial. On the first take, I thought I’d recorded an absolute masterpiece. I finished, stretched, smiled. Few minutes later, I sat down to start editing only to realise I never saved the video. I went crazy, spent a whole day looking for it,… Continue reading
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THE COST OF SELF AWARENESS
I live by very simple principles. Those closest to me me know one of these to be how I won’t stop talking about this ‘unwritten social contract’. To me, we all have an obligation in every human relationship. Not contractual one, but I genuinely believe that if our paths cross, even for a moment, we… Continue reading
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