Friday, July 6, 2012

Thinking Out Loud

*At judgement day, you are asked, "what did you do with the gift of life given u?" what would be your answer? Did you maximise your potential? Did you multiply your talents?


*Our politicians (Ghana) behave just like bickering compound house women tenants! Bandying about slander and casting insinuations. How can GROWN men, instead of taking responsibilities for their actions make excuses that someone else did it first and got away with it, so they shouldn't be questioned if they do same? So childish! When will the so called leaders of our country GROW UP!!! Be men for Christ's sake!


*You are a better person when u follow the precepts and principles of Christ...


*When YOu hunger for Christ you desire more OF him rather than FROM Him!


* You can NEVER pull a fast one on God. For you to think you can, in itself is a sin. Repent!


* Often times we busy ourselves with relatively unimportant and inconsequential activities and end up missing spending time with and on the things and people that matter most INCLUDING God! We all have 24 hours a day, certain people don't have more hours a day than others. Prioritize the things and people in your life and FIND/MAKE time for them. Neglect has led to dire short falls in many people's lives. It doesn't come automatically, you have to make a conscious effort to MAKE TIME.


* Some of the things that glitter are actually ONLY yellow foil and nothing more. So NEVER judge a person by their appearance because you just might find out that the shiny ones are actually mere counterfeits of the real deal and the non-bling-bling ones are simply unprocessed gold...


* I know all the happenings in present day world were prophesied time immemorial, but it still breaks my heart to see the path on which the world is treading! Satanism of the highest order via music and film. 


Can u NOT see? Satan's agenda is being propagated through indoctrinating and brainwashing especially through music and films and the saved sit, swallow and partake in the gradual demise of the race. Arise! Smell the agenda! Even Jesus recognised the power of arts (parables) and yet modern day children of God and Church leaders FEEL too spiritual to use the medium, they have left it in the hands of Hell's ambassadors... smh.

Please wake up and get up and doing! Time is running out. Don't be caught unaware, you are the custodian of the souls of family and friends, get busy.

Remember... Wise and discerning as serpents AND gentle as doves.



* Often times we delude ourselves into thinking we are actually doing right by God when in actual fact we merely ACT out our part of the relationship. We go through the day THINKING about talking to God (praying) when in actual practice we simply leave it at that. Worse we talk about God or we talk about thanking Him but in fact we don't TALK to Him!

Imagine your boyfriend/girlfriend or Husband/wife or mother/father doesn't talk to you all day. They talk about talking to you, they may even post on FACEBOOK how happy and blessed they are to have you and how grateful and appreciative they are of all you do for them. If they DO NOT actually call YOU and tell you or make space to look you up, how would u feel? what would u think about their "supposed" love for you?

Same principle applies to your MOST important relationship... Please talk to Him and not only ABOUT Him.... Both are pleasing to God. :-)



* Time with God is just like charging your cell phone or laptop battery. Else you'd end up running around on "low battery". Worse, "pc on hibernation, please charge".


* Only 438,034 Ghanaians pay their water bills?! (How come for this there is supporting data?) That's Less than half a million people? A minuscule 1.75%!! What do the remaining 98.25% defaulting hope to achieve? sad...

However, you can't blame some. Most people (including urban and city dwellers, go figure) do not see water through their taps for aeons. That's enough motivation to  NOT pay up. Hence the vicious cycle of non-service/non-payment continues.



And by the way how many of the 25 million Ghanaians ACTUALLY have access to OR are connected to the national treated water grid? makes u wonder doesnt it?

The way forward?



* An ear to listen and someone in your corner is sometimes all it takes to make a difference.


* When we say, "God has been faithful" what do we Actually mean? Is it another of the "chrife" jargons? i.e. trying to sound chrife Or are we privy to some revelation about faithful acts of God?

Think about it.

Don't just keep up appearances (the chrife, ojachious appearance) taste and see for yourself.



* Everyone looks out for themselves. There are VERY FEW real altruistic/ selfless people out there. Do the God thing: Love God, Love yourself so you can love others the way God and you love YOU.


* How come foreigners come to Africa to DEFEND our resources whilst the locals (who mind u ARE the custodians and owners of these resources) watch nonchalantly?

Can we simply not BE responsible for our possessions, and properties?

Friday, July 15, 2011

Musings of a "battle-of-the-sexes" warrior

Every girl (well most of us anyway) wants to be a princess or a queen even. We want and need to be pampered, adored, protected, appreciated, needed and above all every girl yearns to be loved. Now therein lays the conflict between the sexes. I know this doesn’t come anywhere close to a resolution of the age-old debate about the sexes, but this is to an extent my point of view.


Now, take a look at the wedding apparel of a bride its regal, there’s even a crown-like contraption which we call a tiara, there are precious stones on her finger, ears, neck and feet! Granted that not ALL women want to be fussed over but most women in general do. What makes a woman’s need for all of these to be sated so incomprehensible to men? I’ve asked, I’ve researched and alas I’ve found the answer; the emotional wiring of the sexes is fundamentally different. Scientists now have the first strong evidence to that effect.

A new research shows an almond-shaped cluster of neurons that processes experiences such as fear and aggression hooks up to contrasting brain functions in men and women.

For men, the cluster interact with brain regions that help them respond to sensors for what's going on outside the body, such as the visual cortex and an area that coordinates motor actions.

For women, the cluster communicates with brain regions that help them respond to sensors inside the body, such as the insular cortex and hypothalamus. These areas tune in to and regulate women's hormones, heart rate, blood pressure, digestion and respiration.

In other words males interact based on external factors whereas women interact based on internal factors. Simple!

Scientists still have a long ways to go in settling the now epic BATTLE OF THE SEXES. However it is obvious that while men and women have basically the same hardware (the anatomy), it's the software instructions and how they are put to use that makes the sexes seem different.

There is some evidence to support the idea that men prefer a problem-focused, rather than emotion-focused approach to stressful situations they encounter (Ptacek, Smith & Dodge, 1984; Ben-Zur & Zeidner, 1996; Twenge, 1997). Research also suggests that men express less anxious and depressed feelings than women do (Allen & Haccoun, 1976; Dosser, Balswick & Halverson, 1983; Brody & Hall, 1993). Hall (1987) proposed that differences highlighted in 1982 by Maltz and Borker, in peer playing patterns between girls and boys, foster different emotional skills.

Girls tend to become more adept at reading both verbal and nonverbal emotional signals of others, at expressing and communicating their own feelings, and at minimizing anger. On the other hand, boys appear adept at maximizing their hostility and anger, and at minimizing emotions to do with vulnerability, guilt, fear and hurt. In keeping with the popular idea then, it seems men are to some extent, less in tune with their emotions and less likely to express their emotions, than women.

More and more research is proving the hypothesis that men and women are NOT the same. We may be similar, but we are NOT THE SAME. Oh don’t go off on me about Beijing. Beijing was about RIGHTS not anatomical and emotional wiring. Of course a woman should be given the same OPPORTUNITIES as men but does not make them the same. My problem is, if it has been proved time and more fervently recently that the sexes are not the same, WHY can’t the sexes accept each others differences and capitalise on the complementariness of it?!! Does different mean one is better than the other? Can there not be a symbiotic relationship between the two without one using the other’s difference as leverage for suppression? Its works in the animal world (go figure), how come it doesn’t seem to work in the human world!? We’ve conquered space, discovered planets, cured diseases and yet we can’t understand each other.

A woman is internal in her dealings AKA emotional, so deal with her emotionally without making her feel less of a human and foolish. A man is external in his dealings AKA logical so deal with him logically without having a complex about it. A man has no way of experiencing the kind of emotions you feel as a woman and vice versa, that does NOT mean he/she doesn’t feel emotions or isn’t logical. It’s supposed to be complementary NOT a basis for misunderstandings. If both sexes were emotional the world would be red and pink in petals and smiles and mushy. In the same way if the sexes were logical the world would be blue and black with only sharp edges on every corner. We need the curves, the yellows and pinks as much as we need the blues, blacks and angular shapes for a balanced existence.

The difference in the emotions of the sexes is like 2 different languages. She speaks French, he speaks Russian. Each should find tuition for the others language, Find an interpreter, learn each others languages and find a balance. I can feel the wheels in someone’s head and he/she is going to say something smart like why not both learn a common language and forget their original languages. Here’s why that is not a great idea: when someone comes along (for both sexes) that speaks very fluently in their original emotional languages guess what will happen? There you go.

My advice to men, if your woman wants
■to be caressed

■hold hands

■kiss in public

■cuddle

■be told how much she is loved every minute

Deal with it, that’s just her wiring; find a compromise, because when she’s happy YOU’ll be the happiest man in the world!

My advice to women, if your man wants
■to think through issues

■to hang with his friends

■your support

■etc

Deal with it, that’s just his wiring; find a compromise, because when he’s happy YOU’ll be the happiest woman in the world!


References
1.http://www.emotionalprocessing.org.uk
2.http://www.livescience.com/4085-emotional-wiring-men-women.html


Afi D







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I love you

I love you is not just a feeling for me
It’s a knowledge I have
It’s a decision I’ve made
It’s a choice I couldn’t avoid making
I love you when you love me
I love you when you are uncertain of me
I love you when you are happy with me
I love you when you are angry with me
I love you when you tickle me
I love you when you anger me
I love you when you misunderstand me
I love you when you fulfill me
I love you simply
I love you complexly
I love you for always
I love you beyond life
I love you…



Afi D



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My Unsung Song

You are the lyrics to my love song

In the making, Yet to be sang
Every moment with you
Gives me a new melody and harmony
Your smile, your touch, your voice
Are the instruments to which I compose this song
Our ageless dance is the rhythm to which I time this song
My Love, My life, My heart
You are my song

For always...







Afi D



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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

The Science of Love

Breaking up isn’t easy. But then worse is getting dumped. Worst yet is when the one you began to build your world around just up and disappears without a trace, without a word, without closure, nothing. But I think there is one worstest (forgive my word invention, wink) and that is when you spend an amazing short time with an amazing person and you find out it wasn’t mutual! Damn! That’s a bummer if ever there was one!!! Daaaaaaaaaaammmn!!  Actually it can be shattering and lead to all manner of emotional malfunctions! Ok ok ok so I’m no angel, I admit I have been on the other side before. You know doing the hurting and well that didn’t feel awesome either. But i know you agree with me when i say being on the business end of the hurting dagger is incomparable. All this ranting leads me to that oh so controversial question: what the hell is it all for anyway?!??!?! What is the purpose of all those hormones going off and the irrationality that ensues? I mean just take a step back and think. When you are at that surreal place where no one and nothing matters but that person, what have been some of the LUDICROUS, down-right SENSELESS things you’ve done?! I do NOT want to even think about it! It’s PREPOSTEROUS. Now here is what I found out. And this is NOT a concoction or figment of my cracked up emotions. This is empirical findings (go figure lol).
Psychologists have shown it takes between 90 seconds and 4 minutes to decide if you fancy someone. Research has shown this has little to do with what is said, rather
·         55% is through body language
·         38% is the tone and speed of their voice
·         Only 7% is through what they say
Hold it. Hmmmmm… yup truer than most things I know! Oh yeah, when his voice just seems to wash all over you even finding the crevices of your being. Been there, done that. But wait, there is more!
Helen Fisher of Rutgers University in the States has proposed 3 stages of love – lust, attraction and attachment. Each stage might be driven by different HORMONES and CHEMICALS!
Stage 1: Lust
This is the first stage of love and is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen – in both men and women. (Yeah this one we all know abi? Wink)
Stage 2: Attraction
This is the amazing time when you are truly love-struck and can think of little else. Scientists think that three main neurotransmitters are involved in this stage; adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin.
Adrenaline
The initial stages of falling for someone activates your stress response, increasing your blood levels of adrenalin and cortisol. This has the charming effect that when you unexpectedly bump into your new love, you start to sweat, your heart races and your mouth goes dry.
Dopamine
Helen Fisher asked newly ‘love struck’ couples to have their brains examined and discovered they have high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine. This chemical stimulates ‘desire and reward’ by triggering an intense rush of pleasure. It has the same effect on the brain as taking cocaine! Fisher suggests “couples often show the signs of surging dopamine: increased energy, less need for sleep or food, focused attention and exquisite delight in smallest details of this novel relationship”. (Remember all this? I do! And damn it I’ve had more energy on so little food and sleep at this stage it’s a wonder I didn’t breakdown! Lol)

And finally, serotonin. One of love's most important chemicals that may explain why when you’re falling in love, your new lover keeps popping into your thoughts! (you are always on my mind hahahhaaaaa)
Stage 3: Attachment
Attachment is the bond that keeps couples together long enough for them to have and raise children. Scientists think there might be two major hormones involved in this feeling of attachment; oxytocin and vasopressin.
Oxytocin - The cuddle hormone
Oxytocin is a powerful hormone released by men and women during orgasm. It probably deepens the feelings of attachment and makes couples feel much closer to one another after they have had sex. The theory goes that the more sex a couple has, the deeper their bond becomes. (Makes sense doesn’t it, wink. Perhaps more is released in females because damn it they get sooooo attached sooooo damn quick! Easy girls, it’s the hormones. He ain’t all that. lolololol)
(Oxytocin also seems to help cement the strong bond between mum and baby and is released during childbirth. It is also responsible for a mum’s breast automatically releasing milk at the mere sight or sound of her young baby. Diane Witt, assistant professor of psychology from New York has showed that if you block the natural release of oxytocin in sheep and rats, they reject their own young. Conversely, injecting oxytocin into female rats who’ve never had sex, caused them to fawn over another female’s young, nuzzling the pups and protecting them as if they were their own.) just extra info…
Vasopressin
Vasopressin is another important hormone in the long-term commitment stage and is released after sex. Vasopressin (also called anti-diuretic hormone) works with your kidneys to control thirst. Its potential role in long-term relationships was discovered when scientists looked at the prairie vole. Prairie voles indulge in far more sex than is strictly necessary for the purposes of reproduction. They also – like humans - form fairly stable pair-bonds. When male prairie voles were given a drug that suppresses the effect of vasopressin, the bond with their partner deteriorated immediately as they lost their devotion and failed to protect their partner from new suitors. (Now there goes the explanation for all those jealous fits etc etc. Like in all the other hormonal releases I think girls release more Vasopressin! So you see girls, he REALLY ain’t all that!)

(Deep sigh) Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, we call it love. It feels like love. But the most exhilarating of all human emotions is probably nature’s beautiful way of keeping the human species alive and reproducing. With an irresistible cocktail of chemicals, our brain entices us to fall in love. We believe we’re choosing a partner. But we may merely be the happy victims of nature’s lovely plan.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m a firm believer in love, romance, fantasies etc etc but it just helps to know that you can control (somewhat) yourself when things go awry (emphasis on awry because with all these hormones raging in your anatomy who can help getting into all the LOVE mess! there is too much against you to win this war anyway). And that he/she isn’t the only love you can or will ever find and be with! So for the love of God and the human race stop with the suicides! Of course go through the motions of not eating, losing weight, and so on and so forth but please, please, puh-leeeeeaaase you are not to help the world census by killing yourself or the IDIOT for that matter. (u can think about it though and possibly kill them in your imaginations hahahahahahaaaaa). If nature has gone through all this trouble to facilitate procreation then rest assured you will find yourself all wrapped up again. It's a giving! Look at it this way, there are many hand gloves on the shelf. Many are your size but in different fabrics, colors and textures etc etc. trust me you WILL find one you’ll NEVER regret getting.

I’m out!



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Saturday, February 5, 2011

The Kiss

Its a few days to the celebration of St Valentine's day (that overrated and probably the most misinterpreted day of the Catholic calendar) and love (or the semblance of it) is in the air. I'm laying in my bed (my mom's couch, yeah i don't OWN a bed! lol) and Eureka! I got this idea (good or bad u decide); hey, why don't I share the experience of the best kiss i've ever had with you (a poetic rendition mind you lol). I wrote this not too long after said kiss... In any case, (Smiling) just thinking about it swooshes me back to that glorious moment. It is almost the same, you know, reliving those moments when lips locked and emotions awakened.... You probably want to know WHO i shared this with but unfortunately (fortunately for me! wink)  that information is soooooo CLASSIFIED even Interpol couldn't possibly EVER find out! wink, lol. Well enjoy. And of course your comments and contributions are welcome. Infact they are REQUIRED! mmmmmuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...

The Kiss
Teasing my lips into pleasure
Flood at my center, surge of passion
Hands on my skin, tingle, shiver
Insatiable, Desire, Surrender
Dancing, gliding, soaring
Teasing, moaning, flowing
Sweetness, release, stillness
In glow, in sleep, in fill
Ludba in whisper

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Finding Me

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaappyyyyyyyyyyy Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaarrrrr! Thank you Thank you Thank you! I know I know it's been like forever innit? lol... But as always I AM BACK ( comic evil laughter). Oh well been beating my head about what to write, you know. Maybe something intellectual and really ... I don't know shark-like. Unfortunately i ended up going into the deep and almost dark part of me and this is what i pulled out. Edited twice (nervouse giggle), with a resounding applause here is FINDING ME. Enjoy. And of course comments and questions are welcome.... Be kind. lol.

FINDING ME

How do you tear your eyes away from beauty?
When she glares at you audaciously, seductively, vivaciously, naively
How do you bear the pain of being misunderstood?
When understanding evades and confuses mankind
How do you erase a memory?
A memory repugnant as sin and yet pervasive as breath.

Take away my pain.
Erase my memories.
Rewind time.
That I may change the path I turned; the path to infinite pain and derision from enemies and lovers.
Free me from this nagging shame constantly reminding me of the unforgettable.

What is the remedy to the disease of life?
What is the cure to self?
Why am I pursued by a punishing rutz!
Entrapments day by sluggish day, night by drowsy night
Moment by suffocating moment
Heart wrenching joylessness!

Maybe just maybe I’ll make it and find that oh so evasive fulfilling joy
Maybe the unfathomable, barely within reach will find its way to my space
Just MAYBE

Until that space in time I replace it with a high
My drug of choice, LAUGHTER

I find me that I lost somewhere sometime ago
Me my darling, answer my call
Me my beautiful, my sweet
Me the creature from the creator’s belly
Me the powerfully loving loyal Nubian princess
My essence, my heart, where forth art thou?
If thou hearest me, respond
Where forth art thou?