AmyTylda

       Often times, people equate a woman being sexually responsible to having only one sexual partner at a time/just a few in a lifetime. I however do not find this notion to be very accurate. To me, a woman can have numerous partners and be sexually responsible while another can have only one partner and be sexually irresponsible. How? You may ask, well I’ll explain below.            A sexually responsible woman is a woman who understands that she has full autonomy over her body and understands the importance of taking her sexual health very seriously. She understands that she has every right to say No to sex if she doesn’t want it and if she wants to, she has the right to decide whom she has sex with, when and how the act is to occur.                              The sexually responsible woman: 1. Understands her cycle       Every woman should understand her menstrual cycle. She should take note of when she is “safe” and “unsafe”.  You should observe your body well enough to

        There’s this ongoing outrage on social media concerning the Dencia - Black Chyna Whitenicious launch. A lot of people feel strongly about it because to them we shouldn’t be promoting bleaching creams in this time and age. People then started arguing about what causes people to bleach in the first place and during this argument I tweeted something along the lines of: “No matter how you want to spin it, bleaching most of the time is as a result of low self- esteem. Let’s tackle that first before we start talking of what caused them to have low self- esteem in the first place”              A while later, my friends Ehiane and Josephine saw the tweet and replied that they didn’t quite agree with my view. I maintained my stance and so we decided to take it to whatsapp to argue it out. Now, though my camera and lighting often tend to make me seem lighter than I am, I’m actually dark skinned and one of the major things I’ve battled with ever since is loving and accepting my s

“ The quickest way to get over a man is to get under a new man ” some say.                 I can’t really comment on how effective it is but theoretically it makes some sense. As with all things, I guess people are different hence have different ways of dealing. Now, heartbreak can be really rough, icky, draining, damaging, stressful, painful, gut-wrenching, depressing and you name it. At times though, I believe it can be clarifying, strengthening, help you re-organize your life, give you a sense of purpose, prepare you for the future, help you discover yourself, help you become a better you and help propel you to exactly where you need to be.         As with a lot of people, I’ve been there before and it wasn’t pretty, AT ALL. You hear about so many coping mechanisms but at that point, I only found a few appealing. I had to take a little bit from here and there and add a little bit of mine to figure out how to cope in the best possible way for me. It wasn’t an easy journey bu

Just in case you have trouble viewing the above image, it says:       “Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you how to love yourself, to make you feel better for a while or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep going and thank them for what they’ve given us”-Emery Allen          For the most part, I think we as humans have been societally conditioned to romanticize the idea of “happily ever after” and so when something doesn’t lead to forever, we whine and complain, feel ashamed, get angry, bitter, pained and so on. We somehow believe that because a connection doesn’t lead to happily ever after it was a complete waste of time. I've come to realize that the fact that something doesn't last doesn't mean it was a failure. It on

       You see, I really love twitter. Not only is it very entertaining, it’s also very educative. Whether you realize it or not, you subconsciously pick things up from there. I remember one day, I was scrolling through my TL and saw someone complaining of how annoying passive aggressive people are. I realized that wasn’t the first time I was seeing/ hearing of that phrase and so I turned to my brain to remind me of what the phrase meant. My brain stared blankly at me because well, turns out I never really knew the meaning! As I always do when I’m clueless about a topic, I turned to google to explain the meaning of this familiar strange phrase to me.   “ Passive aggressive- of or denoting a type of behavior or personality characterized by indirect resistance to the demands of others and or avoidance of direct confrontation”        OK Google! The definition made some sense yeah but I needed further explanation and examples and so I dug deeper. After opening article after article

     " If you’re hot for Jesus, nothing can perch on you”         Those words struck me as the Priest (struggling to remember his name) said them that day during the homily. He further went on to explain the need to have an active spiritual life, a burning spiritual life, so hot that the arrows of the evil ones cannot hit you. Just as a bird in the air cannot perch on a hot surface so also can the devil’s work not harm you if you have a fiery spiritual life.        I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve had many periods in my life during which I was really just a dormant Christian. I mean, I can go on my knees daily, attend mass on Sundays, but that’s just it, nothing extra. During these periods, I usually stop reading my bible and devotional, stop visiting the Blessed Sacrament just to spend a moment with Jesus, stop attending weekday masses, stop praising and worshiping God as often as I should, stop investing my time in things that will generally enhance me spiritually. Why?? y

             Hi, I’m Matilda Enotaye Oyanna. I’m a softie, music lover, feminist, pharmacy student, and of course a foodie (particularly a pasta addict). Writing is something I’ve always enjoyed doing right from when I was little. Growing up, I always loved reading different pieces from writers on newspapers, books, magazines, blogs and I secretly wished I could be like them. Recently I thought “what’s stopping you really? You CAN do this” and so I decided to open this blog.           This blog basically, is just an outlet for me. When I initially told a few people about my desire to open one, one common question I got asked was “what are you going to blog about, what exactly is your niche?”. The answer to that question is: everything and anything that comes to my mind. I plan to write about my personal experiences, that of people I come across, life experiences in general, my observations, thoughts, lessons I’ve learnt (personally and from other people), social issues and anythin