Shonisani's Seeds

My mind has been swarming with a lot of " what ifs " lately. " what if i was actually born with small eyes?" " what if i was raised in a village with no WiFi?" " what if i was taller?.. or just what if i was tall?" At first i was ignoring them, you know those " what if i don't hear my alarm tomorrow morning ?" thoughts you have, then you pass out, and you wake up one minute before your alarm is about to go off. Phew. Then it got way more serious, i'd be like " what if i bump into my crush on campus and i'm looking hella crusty ?" and then it happened... that day, while i was looking crusty. Not so much phew but, at that moment i was sure of two things : 1) i had superpowers and, 2) i just didn't know how to use them yet. Ha! No but seriously, at that moment i was sure of two things, 1) my thoughts are very powerful and, 2) woman's intuition is a real thing . I ...

Sometimes i find myself reading the news, i should know better because it really is all extremely depressing , but one day the curious cat in me had me reading this tragic article. It was about a man who killed his wife for insurance money to support his children. The news article painted this husband out to be abusive and irrational, the deceased woman was glorified as a loving wife and patient mother, and all i as the reader had to do was to simply just.... drink it all in, gobble gobble gobble. I mean,  what's the difference between fiction and fact if you can't even read a news article that doesn't  vilify  and sensationalize it's own subjects? Why can't i decide for myself who deserves my empathy? What if they had it all wrong? That's when my mind started to really wonder, if anyone really stands a chance these days regarding what they understand the truth to be. Has the truth become somewhat of a taboo? And how do you ex...