Tag: Parents

Dear Cozy, If life gives you lemons, ask for salt and vinegar. It is easy to lie. But not to those we love and care about. I remember lying to some people to get them off my neck. I remember lying to myself that I loved a guy. But I found my way back to…

Dear Cozy, If life gives you lemons, ask for salt and vinegar. Please, I am begging you, don’t disgrace us. There is something called a mirror in your room, the corridor along the rooms and in the room adjacent to the front door. Those mirrors are not decorations or to cover up defects. They are…

Dear Cozy, If life gives you lemons, ask for salt and vinegar. Not everything will go as you want, my dear. You would try, put in a lot of time and energy and resources and sometimes, disappointments would still happen. Yes, that is life. People will disappoint you and make it seem like you were…

Dear Cozy, If life gives you lemons, ask for salt and vinegar. Sex is not a taboo word here. Cozy, hear me? You’ve got any question? Ask me. Let me be your first source, not even your books. Growing up, my knowledge about this was first skewed. My parents tried to shield me from the…

Dear Cozy, If life gives you lemons, ask for salt and vinegar. Break ups should be indications for electro convulsive therapy just so one can have amnesia and never remember. It takes courage to break up. It takes courage to take a break up without going crazy and it takes courage to move on and…

Dear Cozy, If life gives you lemons, ask for salt and vinegar. I wasn’t looking for your father when he found me. We were both stumbling out of dark places in our lives. Meeting new people at that point was not a priority . Your father is a wise man. He wasn’t going to just…

Dear Cozy, If life gives you lemons, ask for salt and vinegar. I lived the last four years of my university life without a laptop. Any student in a tertiary institution needs a laptop. How much more a medical student? And how much much more a medical student in those concluding years? Few times, I…

Dear Cozy, If life gives you lemons, ask for salt and vinegar. We have big heads for a reason. Our brain is big and it does not just occupy space, it works. We don’t struggle to beat everyone hands down with our test scores but we don’t lag behind. We may not follow the usual…

Dear Cozy, If life gives you lemons, ask for salt and vinegar. My social life is lifeless. That is the brutal truth. It has always been so. I have always been the indoors person. That doesn’t mean if you throw a party indoors, I would attend. I can almost count the birthdays and weddings I…

Dear Cozy, If life gives you lemons, ask for salt and vinegar. God is a concept I hope you get to understand early. He means a lot to me and to your father. When you grow up, you would hear and read and experience many things. One side would point you to Him. Another would…