Category: The Jola Diaries
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SOME LESSONS I’VE LEARNT SINCE RESUMING LAW SCHOOL | THE JOLA DIARIES.
It’s been a minute. I think for a while there, I’d experienced some level of anxiety associated with writing and creating content generally. But this past week, it’s like whatever was blocking my creativity has been lifted and I’ve finally found the excitement I used to have in writing and content creation. So I’m back. […]
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Episode 2: Those 3AM RANDOM Thoughts… | JOLA’S CORNER OF THE INTERNET UNFILTERED.
DJ, play me Timaya’s ‘In this life I can’t kill myself’ and Tekno’s ‘Allow me to enjoy myself’. Nigerians and Entitlement Since returning back to Nigeria I’ve realised one thing. Actually two, but we’ll get to the second one in a bit. The first is that the average Nigerian is entitled. It’s the reason a […]
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Dear FUTURE ME | Faith Diaries #3
If you could tell your future self something what would it be? If you could write a letter to the future you, hoping you would get the opportunity to read it at some point what would the letter say?
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Begin Again
A piece that highlights the possibility of starting over whenever we feel the need to. It explains why we should not allow ourselves live unhappy lives or limit the prospect of beginning again to a time frame like new years for example.
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Episode 1: Life as a DEMANDING SINGLE WOMAN
Okay, so here’s the deal. Life is hard. Being SINGLE and a WOMAN is harder. Graduating from undergrad opens the floodgates of the “So what next?” question. But in reality, when that question comes from these Nigerian aunties and uncles, they’re really asking you “so when will you marry? (Will it be this year, or […]
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Experiencing The Now.
“Man […] is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future. He lives as if he is never going to die and then dies having never really lived.” -The Dalai Lama. Have you noticed […]
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RAGE | THE JOLA DIARIES
Memories flood and for a moment I’m out of breath, remembering how he’d hold me down and force himself on me. Remembering how sometimes I’d stare at the ceiling and pretend I was dead just so I couldn’t feel anything. The most painful memory, one that plagued me everyday, one which has become a nightmare […]
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The Blame GAME | Faith Diaries #3
Going back to creation and how sin entered the world when Adam and Eve ate of the tree of Good and Evil, and God asked Adam why he ate of the tree. His first instinct was to blame Eve, and from then on the blame game began. As human beings when caught in a wrong, […]
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IDENTIFY
By Anjola Labels. It’s what we put on everyone, it’s what we define others and ourselves by. Labels. It’s how our society works. The principle it’s unconsciously guided by, because people need a name, category or class to understand things. My skirt is too short. I’m a slut. My skirt is too long. I’m a prude My blouse is too cut low and […]
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