An African Countess' Blog

That song says '...just like a single word can make a heart open...' (Fight song - Rachel Platten) Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. It is a double-edged sword. We can choose to use this force constructively with kind words of encouragement, or destructively using hateful acidic words. The same song says '...I might only have one match (tongue, in this case) , but I can make an explosion...'

That song says 'there are some things you can't put on a paper' (My Kind of Perfect -David Archuleta).  Love is one of such things ... Whatever the case, one thing I know is that Love picks the W over Hate any day.  Hate is a really strong force. Very strong...like fire. Just take a minute to think of all the havoc fire can wreck in a short period of time. But love is still a stronger force. Just like water is a stronger force than fire. Fire is easy to smother, needs fuel to keep burning, and has only one state of matter. Water, on the other hand, is hard to get rid of and has multiple states of matter. Even in fiction, Ice-man (with water-based powers) defeated Human-Torch (with fire-based powers)... Like water, a lot of us are yet to experience L O V E in all its fulness and glory. In the real sense of it though, the only way to experience this love we speak of is to encounter the Embodiment of Love, Jesus #selah. 'Never forget that the most powerfu

I need your help... I feel particularly unhappy today, been feeling this way for the past 3 days at least... I like food, so when I feel this way, I would usually take myself out to binge-eat, and pack on all the calories, even if it's with my l ast-card (all the money I have left) but this time, I have zero appetite. ...And then I caught the flu... arrrgghhh I have had a really tough past couple of weeks at work and in my life as a whole. Well, as the 'absorber' that I am,  azzziiinnn  odeishi-dusted,  I have taken it in my strides (if I do say so myself);  but then this flurry of emotions have suddenly erupted... As much as we all want up-up days all the time, some days are just, you know, like this... The topic of this article is a line from one of my favorite songs 'my kind of perfect' by David Archuleta and I have no idea why it is the topic. Something like 'A Cry For Help' or 'SOS Call' would have been more apt, but er