Courtesy of https://www.wattpad.com/ No, I have not been gone for 5 months... Courtesy of https://giphy.com/gifs/diddy-serious-stare Recently in this mad journey they call life, the mountain I've been learning to conquer, is one of comparison, often leading to jealousy. Now this has often felt like a taboo subject for me, because as soon as you mention to someone you're feeling jealous (not that I've done that, ngl - fear is clearly another, higher mountain we're working on overcoming hehe. Might speak about that one another day), it turns into this terrible sickness you have that no one wants to address because it's awkward. It is awkward to admit that you're jealous of someone or some aspect of another person. We're often made to villainise people who are quote unquote jealous of us, to dismiss them as haters or people that don't have anything better to do with their lives. I Moyosoreoluwa Omoronke Owoseni-Lawal (yes it is, and...
Source: https://www.istockphoto.com/gb/photos/standing-out-from-the-crowd You've probably heard the saying that "you can be in a room full of people and still feel lonely". It sounds cliche, but rings so true for so many of us. I've been wanting to make a post about this for months, but have only just found the words to say it (without being mean hahaha). I've recently felt the loneliness that the above quote epitomises. At first, I thought it was me; that maybe I wasn't loud enough or wasn't good at making friends. But one thing I'm learning is not to criticise myself over things I can't necessarily control. I objectively evaluated the situation and found that I'm not too quiet (though I may be introverted) and I'm not awkward (most of the time) nor am I bad at making friends. I kept wondering why I felt like I had a lot of friends yet still felt alone on a day-to-day basis. The first obvious reason is that it's my summer ...