a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
in a nutshell
Nobody’s got your back like you.
Never say that someone held you back from becoming who you want to be. They can only try to hinder your steps ‘cos the only person you become is the person that you choose to be.
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Your present circumstances don’t dictate your destination. They only serve as your departure point. Keep walking through them.
A friend and sister blogger invited me for the three quote challenge and I would like to share some African proverbs with you. Thank you OBA for this auspicious opportunity. I like it. 
Back then in my place, our grandparents and parents told us tales or rebuked us with words laced with lots of proverbs, adages and idioms that we had no idea what they meant.
Sometimes, they will ask you to go and figure out a sensible answer for a proverb as part of your punishment, then you would perambulate from one adult to another trying to repeat the proverb and get its meaning.
These adults had a way of knowing that you had misbehaved so your journey got a little trickier and arduous but it was a lesson well taught in a lot of instances.
So I leave you with today’s proverb:
”A man doesn’t go far from where his corn is roasting.”
Now picture me going up and down asking another adult to tell me where the corn is roasting 🙂
I would like to invite 3 gentlemen bloggers in the house to give us their quotes.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
As school kids, we matched in tandem to our classes from assembly singing or should I say yelling a song:
Determination is our motto, Determination, Determination!
Repetitively and in staccato voices too!
No doubt we had no idea what exactly we were singing about. We just SANG happily 🙂
Now as I sit here, in an attempt to drum reluctant and difficult words into a story that does not want to be told, the word Determination echoes in my mind and then…it becomes crystal clear beyond literal levels that:
Someone’s Determination
Is that mental animation
that pushes their bands of resistance
From mundane levels of coexistence
With consistent persistence
To livelier edges of existence
And better culmination
Of one’s life’s narration
There you have it. My very own new definition of determination.
Let me now sing in a hush tone: determination, is my motto, determination, determination 😉
Have a blessed day.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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