Write Brain Loop

Thanks for elevating the best stuff…

Posted on March 20, 2019January 31, 2020 by Joel

…is something Medium says when you highlight a part of a Medium post and someone who follows you finds it interesting enough to also highlight it.

It’s the same with life even though most times no one thanks us. People are watching you and they are mostly not even aware of it. But they are watching. And the things you do, the things you share, the things you condemn, they see it and it affects them. It helps shape their thinking and impacts their life more than you know and more than they realise.

So today, ask yourself, “What am I elevating?”

Life, Scattered thoughts

On making impact

Posted on February 18, 2019January 31, 2020 by Joel

There is a life we are destined to live, a purpose we are meant to create and actualize. Each one of us is tasked with that noble duty, for ourselves and for the human race. We are put here not just to pass through like a bird leaves no path as it flies. No. We are, just as those who have come before us, obligated to make an impact. Continue reading “On making impact” →

Fiction, Stories

Going home

Posted on February 17, 2019January 31, 2020 by Joel

“Look.” She said.

I looked and I was glad I did.

She was wearing this ridiculous hat that made her look like a cartoon character. Yet she was the most adorable thing I’d ever seen. The way her smile came out natural, untouched by the heaviness behind her soft eyes, untainted by the crumbling world around us.

“What do you think?”

I just stared. It was hard to put my thoughts into words. What did I think? I thought she was a perfect creation of God, too perfect that she had to be given the weight of the world to try to even it out. I couldn’t begin to understand where her strength came from or the love in her heart. All I knew was…

Continue reading “Going home” →

Scattered thoughts

You and your ego

Posted on February 16, 2019January 31, 2020 by Joel

We are sometimes made to believe that ego is the enemy. That those with a huge ego are somehow less honourable people than those with smaller egos.

Well, I think we need to understand that ego is just. Without your ego, you probably will not be motivated to achieve or pursue anything worthwhile to your being. Continue reading “You and your ego” →

Salient Thoughts

On working with the unknown

Posted on February 15, 2019February 1, 2020 by Joel

In a world such as this, with thousands of years of contemplation and refining of the knowledge we’ve acquired as a race of sentient and intellectual beings, we have somehow become overcome by our ability to think and plan ahead, that fantasies have, as a consequence, been brought in to overshadow reality. Continue reading “On working with the unknown” →

Fiction, Stories

Oblivion

Posted on February 15, 2019January 31, 2020 by Joel

A phone rang somewhere close, but Mike turned away and placed a pillow over his head. The muffled sound didn’t make him feel any better, but he was in no mood to get up. He had a pretty good idea who could be calling, anyway. If it wasn’t his mother, it couldn’t be anyone else but Mary.

That girl was persistent, he had to give her that. And, any other day, he would pick up the phone in an instant, just not today. Continue reading “Oblivion” →

Life, Scattered thoughts

The Song of the Past

Posted on January 31, 2019January 31, 2020 by Joel

Many a time, it is the sound of our past that we keep dancing to, way past the present and deep into the future. We keep an old melody alive, singing its praise and applauding its orchestral eloquence. It was, once, but that is not enough. We embody it as the future, we worship it.

Forgetting that the drums ringing from our past are in the past for a reason. Yes, to direct our path. To illumine, if you will, the hearer, but not to become the object of the future. Continue reading “The Song of the Past” →

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