Wistfulness
…There was a time when life felt… easy, ridiculously easy. Not because there were no challenges, but because the weight of the world was not yet ours to carry…
Serendipity
…Do we simply collide with people by accident?
Are we merely moving particles in a vast universe of coincidence?
Or is there an unseen choreography to our lives, subtle, quiet, deliberate?
I am not sure I have the answer…
Love of self
…And are you brave enough to choose yourself when the time comes?
Because loving yourself is not selfish.
It’s necessary…
Gap
…When someone like that leaves your life, it leaves a huge void.
There is no gentle way to describe it. No poetic phrase that fully captures the absence. It is a gap; wide, unexpected, and painfully quiet. A space where laughter once lived…
Trauma
…Hurricane Melissa may have tested our resilience, but she also reminded us of something powerful: even when everything familiar is stripped away, our spirit remains. And from that spirit, we will rise, steadier, wiser, and perhaps even more compassionate than before. For me, Jamaica is not just a place, it’s a people, a resilient people, a people that never allows themselves to stay down when kicked in the face. Jamaica, land we love, Jamaica to the world…
Fitting in
…Fitting in means that we mold ourselves into what we see as the norms, values, and expectations of a certain crowd and this happens to the detriment of our true self….