Kovie Biakolo
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10 Lessons I Learned In My First Year Of Grad School
THE WORLD IS REALLY REALLY SCREWED UP. And there’s nothing you can do about it.
The TMI Generation
Every day, on the internet, I am truly flawed at what people are willing to share with the world.
Don’t Die Without Living First
And that’s how life is. One day people are here, the next day they are not.
17 Reasons Why People Don’t Always Suck
Because someone has probably “spotted” you when you were broke or your stupid card wasn’t working, saving you from the ultimate social embarrassment.
3 Things We Should Stop Doing For Health Reasons
Speaking of mouths, can we please be more careful about whose mouths we are kissing?
Who Your Real Friends Are
Your real friends are the people who are there when it counts.
I Want A Guy Who Will Write A Song For Me
The lyrics would be from the heart, and he’d tell me the truth: that I am difficult to love but that he loves me anyway.
To Be Happy Or Great? That’s The Question
If you had a choice between happiness and greatness, and it was mutually exclusive, what would you choose?
26 Things That Happen When You Grow Up In An African House
10. Your parents will call you from upstairs, downstairs, outside, etc., to hand them something that is literally 10 centimeters away from them.
Why Christianity Is Difficult
People are difficult; many are self-centered, negative, hostile, and sometimes do things that are plain and simply evil.
19 Signs You Are Burned Out (And Probably Need A Vacation)
No one wants to talk to you anymore because every conversation has a 86.73% chance of you ending up in tears.
Suicide Is Selfish: We Belong To Each Other
If my memory serves me well, the lady looked at me through her sunglasses, tears streaming down her face and said, “Oh, you can see? Everything is awful. Thanks for caring but I have to go.”