SKINNIES

  THE HATE YOU GIVE, LIVES INSIDE FOREVER (THUG LIFE)      C redit to Tupac Shakur and his other friends who are the original owners of the word. Albeit I won’t be going by their definition of a thug. You see, a lot of us see a thug as someone who is ruthless, someone who doesn’t care a hoot about the feelings of others.       W e see them as someone who are bad-tempered, not serious with their life, and ill-behaved and we just zero on them. We look at them from a distance and we just decide that they are not to be reckoned with and we blame them for their kind of personality.

  FOCUS ON THE PATH; IGNORE THE OBSTACLES. Sometimes ago, I was on Facebook and I saw a video from a speech given by a speaker (motivational speaker) at an event and I saw a lesson in what he said. He said, "You can't tell the human brain to do the negative. For instance, don't think of an elephant". The audience, including myself who was watching, immediately thought about an elephant, and then I immediately understood what he meant. He continued and said, " The human brain is difficult not to do something. That is why when you're learning to ski, the skiers would tell you to focus on the road, because the second you think in your head, 'don't hit the tree', that is when you'd run right through to one." You see, in our lives also, we are always trying to not make mistakes. We want to be so sure; we want to be perfect. Trevor Noah said in one of his comedies, "One problem of humans is that we get so comfortable knowing- 'how is t...