SELF-DEPENDENCY

“Happiness starts with you. Not with your relationships, your friends, or your jobs. But with you.

-Mandy Hale

Imagine this scenario. You upload something on social media. It could a be a picture or a poem a link to an article or anything else.

You finishing uploading and fix your gaze on the notification icon, waiting for it to blow up. (Or so you wish). But nothing significant happens. You might get one or two likes or you might not. And in sets the disappointment. Sound familiar?

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BOOK SMART VS STREET SMART

“My mother always said I must be tolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”
-Maya Angelou

What does being smart entail? Getting good grades in college? Being able to smell a scam from a thousand feet away? Many have always preached education over everything else. But then, the likes of Thomas Edison, Bill Gates and Albert Einstein all dropped out of school at one point and ended up having pretty distinguished lives and careers.

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