“How old are you?”
“Twenty-two.”
“You got a degree?”
“Yeah.”
“You got a job?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, you better hurry up and get yourself a husband then.”
This is a conversation I went through more times than one, and I’m…
It was the perfect day. The sun was shining, and the atmosphere was electric. Everyone was smiling with excitement, and the reason was it was the day the annual Great Ethiopian Run is held, Sunday, November 26. Over 40 thousand…
Sitting here witnessing a shoeshiner getting screamed at by a guy cause he isn’t fast enough.Though I do not support verbal or any kind of abuse on anyone, shoe-shiners are very hard workers and they do what they do from…
She was in love with the person he wanted to be, not who he actually was. But neither she nor he will figure that out until it’s too late, way too late.
You see, the problem wasn’t that he didn’t…
Don’t get me wrong — on certain (very few those are) Friday or Saturday nights, I wouldn’t mind spending time with one or two close friends and enjoying a bottle of wine or even attending a concert. And I’m not…
Their love was good. It wasn’t great, just good. It was sweet but lacking passion, and it was fine for the time being but she knew that eventually, she would need something more, and she would break his heart. She…
You told me once, that I was poetry or a poem, or something like that. You said all these beautiful things to me before you gazed at my soul. Tell me, does the composition of my face sing to…
For as long as she can remember
Its been winter
No sun no summertime to treasure
And every time that she thought she was going to surrender
It got better
She’d just go holding on till forever
Broken lover? Yes,…
At first, she thought it’s because she believes in second chances; in the idea of timing; that nothing is ever impossible. Then she thought maybe she has become blind with optimism. Nonsense hope. That if only she did this, or…
She wasn’t sad, she wasn’t in pain. All she was feeling was anger. She was so angry.
It wasn’t because their love was over, or because things hadn’t worked out the way she had hoped. She wasn’t angry because she…