Tina Turner sang about love, asking the difficult questions. “Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?” If you listen closely, you can hear how hard it is to define love. In many words, she managed an all-time hit that we all relate to. Maybe it’s the notion—the confusion that comes with—heck itContinue reading “What’s Love got to do with it?”
Category Archives: Stories
Broken Dreams
Down the tools of trade and watch them burn. Medicine is a calling for most,a passion so fierce it gets you through the challenging education that comes with it.You go to the morgue and stand before a body marveling at the anatomy of the human body.The days go by with so much hardships yet theContinue reading “Broken Dreams”
Tales of Pictures
Am looking at pictures of my family and I am smiling so much. This morning I was thinking of how much I am a love kind of person.I love love,I really do and recently I have been actively trying to find my person.I have this dream of a beautiful life and a loving family.So asContinue reading “Tales of Pictures”
Chirywrites
I have loved so deeply, yet I never felt that kind of purity in those who showed me loveI cared so intensely, yet never felt safe long enough not to care for myselfI honored those who deserved it and yet never walked in my own honorI held on to keep the peace, yet I alwaysContinue reading “Chirywrites”
Friendships
I advocate for being there for each other.In a sensible way because it really eases many of our struggles.Yesterday I had a serious migraine,the kind that makes you want to cry.So I tell my best friend and because health practitioners are interesting people she goes ahead to examine me.She makes a conclusion and recommends medication.IContinue reading “Friendships”
From the mouth of babes
My child has an infection.Its minor, however she needed mediation so I got her some.They don’t taste so well because it’s medicine.This morning am giving her a dose and she is whispering something.”I am brave, I am brave”. I am marvelling at the way she is calm saying it and takes the medicine without cringing.InContinue reading “From the mouth of babes”
Intentional living
I have learnt to listen,the exact time in which there’s a shift in energy I have learnt to he present.Like when I am bubbly and happy then my mood changes,I can almost always mark the exact time it happened.I don’t like to admit it most times but I also know what changes it.I have beenContinue reading “Intentional living”
The healing process
It’s the things that cross your mind when you are alone.The truth of your existence when you wake up in the middle of night.That feeling when you are facing the worst of your fears,that exact moment in which you cross the line.The line between it being a fear and it turning into a reality.I haveContinue reading “The healing process”
Intentional living
Maybe it’s meant to be,that you break your soul before you can grow with itThat you fall way below the bottom of the sea before you can aim at the skyMaybe you are meant to experience the painful lessonsThat make you question the meaning of life as a wholeMaybe that pain Is meant to teachContinue reading “Intentional living”
Mental Health
I attended a mental wellness campaign.I sat among people that have dedicated their lives to helping others navigate the scares of life.I was in the presence of champions that have dared to break barriers.The energy in that space was giving calmness and even when it was buzzing with activities there was so much calm.I haveContinue reading “Mental Health”
Chiry Writes 