Be Yourself. The World Worships the Original.
[Si par hazard tu cherches une histoire émouvante, tu es au bon endroit]. J’ai fait la connaissance de Boris Evrard sur les réseaux sociaux et comme beaucoup de jeunes burundais au Canada, je le connaissais principalement à travers son activisme et ses engagements dans la diaspora Burundaise au Canada. Si tout comme moi tu as […]
(This post is inspired in part by a conversation with my brother on manhood). I have one little brother. 4 years younger. You can imagine how funny it is for me to say that he has taught me things. But he truly did, in his own way! He didn’t actually make me sit down and […]
When I was a teenager, I had one big aspiration: becoming a model. I mean, I had other goals but this was one of the biggest – keep reading if you want to know why. So when one day I saw a casting call ad while scrolling down my Facebook feed, I didn’t hesitate. Okay, I […]
In the world we live in today, it is so much easier to compare our lives to others and to envy what other people have.Social Media allows people to show lives that they don’t have, faces that are unreal, relationships that don’t exist.We forget to be thankful for what we have and tend to desire […]
I met Melissa my first year of undergrad. We were in the same economics class and she heard me speaking on the phone in Kirundi and waited until the end of the lecture to talk to me. Now that I am thinking about it, I probably said something about her(without knowing she can understand Kirundi) […]
In today’s world, it gets very easy to envy other people and what they have. We compare our lives to celebrities’, we wish we had things our friends have, we focus on the negative things in our lives and we complain a LOT. I had a conversation with one of my dearest friend who just turned 26 (Happy […]
I woke up on an email from the WordPress team suggesting me to watch my Annual Report of my stats for my blog. I was curious and surprised. I rarely check my stats because Uno, it is not really about the numbers that I do all this and Dos, I forget. When I started blogging […]
The minimum you can do is to be thankful for being alive. So many people wish they could be in a place where you are complaining to be. Wake up and go make this day count. Smile and be nice to people. I.L.Duchesse
Mostly, procrastination is a sign of laziness, a sign that we are not motivated to get things done. But it may also be a sign that we are not putting our time and effort where it is due. I realized that I tend to procrastinate less if it is something that interests me that needs […]
Let me ask you this right now, if you don’t fight for what you want,who else do you think is going to do it? The answer is NO ONE! You’ve got to wake up, no matter how unmotivated, unmoved or weak you fell, get out there and work/walk towards your goals, your dreams. Yes, the road […]
