LIFE & FLAWS

What a time to be alive! Your twenties are definitely the most confusing times that one can go through, I thought being in my teenage years was A LOT, but no…my twenties are damn confusing. In my teens I had an idea on where Ia would be in my twenties, married and a good paying job but the script flipped along the way and I found myself not sure on how to navigate certain life challenges, not to mention the financial stress that started creeping in from Lord knows where. You trying to let go of your “childish” ways and transition into adulting.  At the back of your mind you know for sure that you shouldn’t take life so seriously but at the same time you are thinking that you are preparing for the future you know…investing for your thirties and making more money for your forties. It’s like you are planning for your future yet living for the now and yet trying to juggle everything…IT’S A LOT. I started of my career as an administrator (anything prior to this does not count and is not...

I was an administrator on a 12 month renewed contract for 3 years. Initially I thought being on a contract you cannot take a loan and make big purchases…the lies that were told to me (rolls eyes). But being the person that I am, I thought surely being on contract cannot necessarily stop me from buying big purchases and long term goals. I felt as though life was passing me by while waiting to be hired as a permanent. Some of my peers whom I was employed with at the company decided to back to school and study something that would guarantee them a job after the second graduation. I stayed behind because I thought, even if I was to go to school, it had to be something that I would like and enjoy doing after graduating right? I did my postgraduate diploma in business management part time to make myself “more employable” that was in 2018 and I’m still waiting for the fruits of that decision to bear lol. My salary was not bad, I was getting paid around R12000 before taxes and a portion of tha...

  So there I was lazing on the couch on a Sunday afternoon, scrolling through my social media account and it seems to me that some of my friends seem to have this “life thing” figured out, some are championing in their different lanes and achieving their milestones and here I am thinking “Damn child, do you actually have your s*^t together?”. Am I the only one thinking that I’m heading somewhere but some-days I’m just not sure where exactly where I’m heading in my personal life . But one thing that is really bugging me, the one aspect of my life in my current state of affairs is the dating department and perhaps marriage because somehow when people think dating, the thought of marriage also creeps in on that thought. Guys!… Is it just me or does it seem as though concept of marriage has taken sharp turn to “unending confusion”? I for one will admit that I am not sure what it is anymore. I think when I was younger and still had my innocence, I knew what it was – with fairy tales and...

  Lockdown came with it many different challenges….both socially and personally. I quickly found myself adjusting to working at home and working overtime to make up for the sells that were missed in the first 2 months of lockdown and once I was able to close the gap, what-a-lot-i-got for working from home. On weekends I swamped myself with gardening, cleaning, basically working myself tired to avoid just sitting infront of the TV and wasting my time away. So I found ways to make myself useful, not only did I start gardening, I awakened the writer in me that I never knew existed. I am currently not travelling a lot based on the obvious but I sure have a lot to share and engage about. I started looking into informative channels and platforms, not everything is Netflix and chill. I started doing my research and some reading. Although having read through online media I found that there a lot of articles on how to save during lockdown. How to make money lockdown, how cooking and baking ...