I live in a typical African village, and watching it evolve over the years has been nothing short of epic.
I still remember when the entire village shared a single phone. If someone received a call, word would travel fast, literally. Someone would run across homesteads to deliver the message: “Your call is waiting.”
But what I miss most is not the technology or lack of it. It is the intentionality in our interactions. Most evenings, our parents would stroll to the neighbors’ compound, sit under a tree, and catch up on the latest village gossip. We kids? We’d gather and dive into games like “kati”, hide and seek, and “kalongo” until the moon told us it was time to go home.
Those were the kind of moments that filled our hearts, unfiltered and real.
Then came the shift.
First, more phones. Then, one in every home. Then Facebook. Twitter (now X). WhatsApp. Instagram. And just like that, our quiet little world turned into a global village.
Suddenly, life outside became quieter. Not because people were not around, but because they were inside, eyes glued to glowing screens. Connection became easier, yes, but not always deeper.
Sometimes, I say… half-joking but wholly honest, that I would have thrived in a world without the internet. A world where messages were passed with smoke signals, drumbeats, or a neighbor’s knock at the door.
Of course, I appreciate the digital age and all it offers. But part of me still longs for the soul of a slower life, where presence was not a status, it was a way of being.
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What are you good at?
A lot of things really, but majorly at being myself.
What does “having it all” mean to you? Is it attainable?
Such prompts usually leave me gapping,
It’s almost like, deep down to the core of who I am, I have the perfect response..but again in reality I go totally blank asin how do I put this into words, you know.
I talk a lot about a regulated nervous system and mastering calmness in all situations.
Most of the problems I’ve dealt with either sprang from dysregulation or an emotional outburst.
Learning how to master the two has been very vital to me.
I am being really honest here, I know so much is said about financial freedom and any other material thing that’s worth mentioning, but it’s almost like it’s super easy to achieve material possession you know…
A lot of things just don’t faze me, I say this and most people think I’m being entirely unrealistic. But that’s just who I am. This doesn’t imply that, I lack ambitions or anything. If anything, I don’t play about my goals .. I just have things I can’t play about.
I’m simply an old soul like that.
Having it all to me is majorly inclined to things money can’t buy, like genuine internal peace.
I know this sort of felt all over the place but yeah ..
I love today’s prompt. I just do not have the words honestly. A lot of things make me nervous. I can feel energies, I mean we all can. I just know being in certain spaces or around certain people can be daunting. I mean it’s almost like you can just feel it. Some places are just calming and so are some people …and the opposite is true. At least according to me.
I genuinely do not have the right words to describe this now, so I’ll leave it at that.
Shadow to my light. 