Marie

Marie

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Writer, God's little one.

TUSHABOMWE CEASER @ceaser1

12 Sep, 26

One day , some body told me i dnt have a future. I replied "The next time you see me. I Will have upgraded,it happened. Now i want them not to just see me up grade but feel the ugrade. And they are gonna eat that shit their entire life.

20 Aug, 26

The greater visibility of bad over good creates the illusion of its greater prevalence. When society mistakes visibility for frequency, it begins to perceive goodness as scarce. And when scarcity is perceived long enough, what was once considered bad gradually becomes normalized.

20 Aug, 26

There is perhaps no greater threat to human relationships than the absence of accountability. Where accountability is absent, conflict becomes perpetual, resentment accumulates, and relationships slowly become an endless drain.

20 Aug, 26

If the purpose of love is merely to love, we diminish its value as a relational good when we give it indiscriminately to those who do not reciprocate it.

20 Aug, 26

Options may sometimes appear out of reach, not necessarily because they are limited, but more often because of the environment within which we confine ourselves.

20 Aug, 26

I so often wonder: does loving someone reveal or change their character? Does the presence of grace unmask a person, revealing them for who they truly are, or does it embolden them to become who the comfort of unconditional love allows them to be?

20 Aug, 26

For as long as life has stages, change and ambition remain inevitable.

20 Aug, 26

“It’s impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously you might as well not have lived at all.”

— J.K. Rowling

20 Jul, 26

Let there be no blur between the narrow path and the broad road.
Let my life leave no room for confusion.

May conviction overpower comfort,
And righteousness rest upon acceptance.
"I do not want the world to look at me and perceive me to be on the same page with it."
~Marie

20 Jul, 26

I posted my July musing and then a friend commented with this response which is even more insightful on the subject matter.

“Crisp observations. Especially about how rejection fuels the 'desire' to then improve ourselves so that we get to show them that they were wrong. The probable reason why that's the case: Incentives move the world. Show me an incentive and can show you how people will respond. So, perhaps, indeed, man is incapable to improve himself naturally, he needs a rewarding reason to do so. Also, from a biology standpoint, we are wired to expend as little as energy as possible we are built to survive, not to thrive. So, to strive, we have to overcome our preservation mode and ways.” - Brad Odilo

20 Jul, 26

Not all great thinkers make exceptional leaders.

20 Jul, 26

Literature reveals that profundity often lies not in the complexity of ideas or words, but in the beauty and precision with which simple ideas are expressed.

20 Jul, 26

The irony of life's mismatches seems to justify the laws of magnetism on poles and their repulsive and attractive attributes. Isn't it strange how those who possess particular views, values and visions end up with those with entirely contrary views, values and visions. Nonetheless, just because such phenomena occur doesn't mean that is all that there is, because the reality is that this occurrence, though highly visible, is more the exception than the rule.

Therefore, it's true that life often presents striking examples of opposites attracting, but it's prudent to note that these mismatches remain only exceptional rather than representative because in the end, shared views, values and visions remain the more common basis for human compatibility.

20 Jul, 26

2 Corinthians 13:5 (KJV)
“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.”

20 Jul, 26

If nostalgia becomes your campus, how will you grow then? Life moves towards the future. The past is a seductress, calling us to chase a beauty that no longer exists, while drawing our eyes away from the abundance we have today and the greater things waiting ahead for us.

20 Jul, 26

“Intentions and emotions often conflict. Desire can fully overpower any form of conviction you have and that is why a belief that has never been emotionally tested can feel stronger than it actually is.” - Gloria Elendu

20 Jul, 26

Don't make excuses for adults. They know exactly what they're doing and why they're doing it.

20 Jul, 26

Our environment shapes perception, perception shapes possibility, and possibility shapes the life we build. A change of environment can expand our sense of what is achievable, but it is not the only path to transformation. By choosing what influences our minds, we can reshape our perception, broaden our vision of possibility, and achieve profound change—even while remaining in the very environment others mistake for a limitation.

20 Jul, 26

Why do people feel the need to say, “I beg to differ”? Just differ. It's your opinion and you're entitled to it and even if you beg, if I disagree with it, the begging won't have mattered.

20 Jul, 26

When hard work denies you what talent effortlessly offers, you start to despise the rewards of talent.

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20 Jul, 26

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20 Jul, 26

Did you know that familiarity always dulls appreciation? Quite often, our mind adopts the habit of recognizing the value of life's blessings only after we encounter their absence. But the truth is, genuine gratitude should be the discipline of appreciating what is present without waiting for its opposite to remind us of its worth.

20 Jul, 26 (E)

Art mirrors the limitlessness of imagination. In essence, art reflects the infinite possibilities of human imagination, giving form to ideas unconstrained by reality.

20 Jul, 26

Many of life's challenges become overwhelming because hopelessness convinces us they are permanent and inescapable. Hope does not always remove the burden, but it changes our perception of it, making endurance possible and restoring the will to persevere.

20 Jun, 26

People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

20 Jun, 26

We are so deeply flawed that we rather invest our energy in fixing specks in the eyes of others while ignoring the log in our own.

20 Jun, 26

See, love possesses a remarkable quality. It doesn't deny the existence of flaws, but rather refuses to make them the defining feature of a person. Instead, it places focus on what is noble, admirable, and beautiful until the flaws recede into the background. Love extends grace and thereby creating the freedom for people to become who they are without the constant burden of conforming to others' expectations. It doesn't demand perfection before acceptance; rather, it makes acceptance the grounds upon which growth becomes possible.

Where love is absent, grace is absent. There, every fault becomes an indictment, every weakness a verdict, and every flaw a reason for avoidance. We cease relating to people as fellow imperfect beings and begin evaluating them as products against an impossible standard—one we seldom apply to ourselves. You see, the absence of love is not merely the absence of affection; but the erosion of the very conditions that make genuine human fellowship possible.

20 Jun, 26

Human beings are, by nature, social creatures. We weren't designed to exist in isolation, detached from one another despite our differences in race, ethnicity, culture, or any other demographic distinction. Yet one of the greatest obstacles to meaningful human connection is our tendency to magnify one another's flaws.

Ironically, we readily acknowledge that none is perfect. We admit that human flaws are thus inevitable and that many can be corrected, refined, or simply tolerated. However, when it comes to building relationships, we often treat imperfections as a disqualifying condition. We suddenly put emphasis on the faults we identify in others, magnifying them beyond proportion, and using them as the basis for deciding who is worthy of our company and who isn't.

Whether consciously or not, in so doing, we deny others the grace that allows them to grow, change, and mature beyond their present flaws.

Now, beneath this disposition lies a deeper deficiency: the absence of love.

20 Jun, 26

Life is full of ironies, but few are as humiliating as self-bias. It reveals itself in countless ways, most commonly in our expectation to receive what we ourselves refuse to give. We demand to be rewarded with the very virtues we withhold, insisting on the benefits of reciprocity while deliberately neglecting our own obligations. Such is the contradiction of human selfishness: we desire a transaction in which only one party pays the price.

Perhaps nothing distorts judgement more than a deficiency of love. Selfishness strips us of fairness because it narrows our moral vision until our own interests become the only ones that matter. We measure justice by what serves us, not by what is right. In that state, we are willing to profit at the expense of others, scarcely concerned by the wounds we inflict, so long as our demands are met. The tragedy is not merely the harm we cause, but the astonishing absence of self-awareness with which we justify it.

20 Jun, 26

“Many get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it.” – David Marcus