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Children in same new clothes🗣

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☯Question for higher power: If you had a choice, would you want to grow old or rather stay forever young? Anyway, it is a rhetorical question because we don't really have a choice. As long as we are alive we are all subjected to the natural phenomenon called "aging". However, some people age with Grace while some don't, and the only thing both parties have at the end of the day will be memories of their juvenile years or memories they created while they had the chance. 👘Life is a highway and nobody gets out alive except you are a reincarnation of the biblical Enoch and Elijah. Life is in moments and we should all endeavour to make good memories. The creatures in my brain were becoming hyperactive and brought the thoughts of my younger years when my cousins, brothers and I would all put on the same type of clothing during any major festivity. We would visit different places in that same attire sometimes looking like those eulogising masquerades, but we gave no car...

To light the candle🕯

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At first I did it for the money and failed. I attempted for the accolades and derailed. Tried again for friends sake but got cut out. Pressured by relatives and still gave out. Alone, I picked the match stick In my smouldering ashes. I attempted. I lit the candle, Made it burn. In the end, I won, For me. ✍ Ogunlana A. Owolabi

Still Looking Forward🗣

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RE: Nigerians are a loving and strong people. My love for art just can't be caged. It is fast becoming my muse. This eye art with the title "still looking forward" (Artist_Unknown) is the perfect illustration for Nigeria and Nigerians and when I saw it online this piece came to my mind. Love is such a beautiful thing that nobody can ever deny no matter how it is conceived. Nigeria, we hail thee! This country will "show you pepper" no matter how you conceive it. It will bring down your idealism and make you humble. Still, in the midst of these, I am of the opinion that Nigerians are a loving and strong people. From the fact that Nigerians have wolverine's ability which enables us heal quick; to the fact that we thrived in an economic situation that Britain's prime minister said might have cut short the existence of his country. Nigerians, I hail thee. In Nigeria, the art of survival is a story that never ends but we have learnt to live above...