Hephzibah's Diary

Recently, I posted a quote from Mindset Therapy on my WhatsApp status and that quote sure gathered a lot of reactions and spurred a lot of conversations. The quote says  "When you lose an emotional attachment to someone, you realize how ordinary they are. It's your love and your energy that makes people seem so special" This quote gathered a lot of comments like "A hundred percent ", "I agree", and "So true". It also led to different discussions and instances where it had happened with people. Majorly, the discussions revolved around the different scenarios of how you thought your ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend was the best thing (since sliced bread 😂) in life and now that you are probably no longer in love, they seem ordinary and like everyday people. This further supports the above quote that it's the love and energy that you give to people that make them so special. Last week, I was having a discussion with my friend, Yvonne, and we ta

P.S. - This post is me thinking out loud. Feel free to drop a comment if you agree or disagree with this loud thought of mine. Thank you!

I started reading the Bible from cover to cover with my elder sister when I was around 10 years of age. I gave my life to Christ when I started Junior Secondary School, and my elder sister and I planned to read the Bible from the beginning to the end. We would read at least 4 to 5 chapters of the Bible daily and by the end of the year, we would have read from January to December. And we did this for a couple of years. I continued this tradition even after high school and when I started my undergraduate studies. At times, I would read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation for two years just to pace myself.  Currently, I have read the Bible from the beginning to the end several times. However, I have noticed that for the past two years, I have struggled to read my Bible or follow a Bible plan as much as I would have liked or as much as I did in the past. This new year, I have been wondering why I have not been able to read my Bible from Genesis to Revelation yearly or follow a Bible plan,

 A few days ago, I was catching up with my elder sister and she was "gisting" me about my baby sister and how she (baby sister) would just go to my mom's room even when my mom is not around and take whatever she wants. And she (baby sister) would always be like it's for her mom so she can take it 😅 My elder sister also said if my baby sister enters her (elder sister) room and she asks her to leave because she's disturbing, she would always be like she's not leaving cause it's her father's house and she can be in the room 😅 We just laughed about it and I commented on how I love the confidence and the fact that she knows her right, what belongs to her, and cannot be cheated.

A while back, I traveled to Mexico and to save cost, I basically spent more time on air than on land. To and fro, I boarded seven planes in total. It was a seven-day trip; if I'm not mistaken, I spent 4 days on air. I am giving this background to establish that I spent a lot of time on air or in different airplanes.  And this experience made me notice something. And that is the runway time that the airplane has. In one of the flights, specifically, the flight from New York to Mexico City, the airplanes started running at 8:46am and did not fly until 9:22am. I kept wondering what was happening and why the plane took so much time to run instead of flying. After the trip, I started reading about airplanes, the runway, and all of that.  Summarily, I learned that airplanes need to run before flying to build capacity and build momentum for flying. In other words, most planes run to get enough speed needed for the plane to actually fly; they need the speed, the race in other to produce th

While we were about to go for rural rugged,  Rukky Okoro  didn't have flip-flops so she decided to go and get one. When she came back, she told us something interesting which I wanna share now... She said that as she was returning, she saw a man who looked like an "agbero" smoking. He was dressed like all these "area boys". She greeted him and just walked past. To her surprise, he responded with "correct English". I mean, he spoke sophisticatedly, he spoke like an educated person. That made her pause and look at him again. When he saw that, he questioned her, asking her if she thought he wouldn't know how to speak English or something. In defense, she said she only liked the way he spoke. And they exchange pleasantries and went their different ways. When she told us about it, we just discussed it randomly and blamed the Nigerian government for not creating a good system for graduates as this forces them into doing all sorts of rubbish like bec