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Marvellous Chijuka-Etiaka Student @ Babcock University • Benin City • 5 months, 1 week ago

“Temporary People”What a name…Those two words, along with the cover, drew me in like a moth to a flame knowing what exactly to expect from the read.I’ll confess to being a serial culprit here for the exact kind of reasons Graham listed. In the end, we do it from a place of overwhelm caused by a blend of emotional/mental noise.

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Marvellous Chijuka-Etiaka Student @ Babcock University • Benin City, Nigeria • 5 months, 1 week ago

Sometimes, we cross paths with people that feel like rays of sunshine, dispelling the eclipses caused by our shadows of grief, mental exhaustion, or family crises. However, spending so much time away from the shadow can force a crushing relapse that feels like withdrawal symptoms. We spontaneously become so self-aware of our new dynamic that feels so foreign— hence unsafe. Then we start to believe we can offer nothing else but cold sarcasm and pessimism we don’t want to rub-off on someone innoce