The period after getting a job is supposed to bring happiness and hope. It is meant to be a time of revival, where your energy is revived. I had a lot of expectations and plans when I started the job. I had timeframes within which I wanted to accomplish certain things. I expected things… Read More My Mental Health Journey: Mental Battlefield
I have been through a lot of challenging episodes in my life that have had an impact on my mental wellbeing over the years, but nothing could ever have prepared me for what I have been going through since mid 2023. It’s been a period of intense pain, turmoil and an unbelievably insane amount of… Read More My Mental Health Journey: The Downpour
Welcome to the second instalment of the #MENtalHealth series. In the last post, I identified the period I think was the beginning of my mental health battle. The beginning of 2023 was also difficult to me for a while. The first few months were full of challenges. Towards the end of February, we got… Read More My Mental Health Journey: The Calm Before The Storm
Over the past few weeks I have been reflecting on how the past 12 or so months have been like to me. Most the pondering has been on my mental state. For anyone who has followed my blog and my posts on X, you will attest to the fact that the things I post about… Read More My Mental Health Journey: And So It Began
AI is the buzz word these days. It seems to be a lot of things to a lot of people. There are some people who are excited for Artificial Intelligence and how it will make everything better, and there are those who think the human race have unlocked an irreversible monster that will inevitably enslave… Read More AI and Content Creation: My 2 Cents
I normally joke around and say I don’t have enough friends to form a friendship circle, they probably just form an arch. Growing up, I never really had a lot of friends. I had a few, but I spent all my time with them. Then I also had people I knew, acquaintances if you will.… Read More Friendships and Relationships: A Once Strong Social Glue
My understanding and appreciation of parenthood, specifically fatherhood; has changed dramatically as I have grown from being a child to a father myself. Growing up, I used to have two different pictures of what a father was. I had the picture I got from television of what I thought was the ultimate father. In this… Read More Fatherhood Through my Eyes
I have been away for a minute, and most of it has been due to the way things have been going in my life. It’s been a bumpy road since August 2023 when all the misfortunes of the world decided to converge at my door step (at least that’s what it feels like) These past… Read More They should have told me: An ordinary Zimbabwean husband and father’s lived experience
I am unhappy. I am sad. I feel useless and worthless. I have given all of myself and in the end, I have received a cold slap to the face. I am at my wit’s end. I am clueless. Everything I thought to try hasn’t worked. I am at the verge of losing everything. I… Read More Current Settings
As I eat the last of yesterday’s cake at the end of the day, I begin to have a bit of reflection on the my life thus far. I am getting older now and everything is no longer the same. The body is no longer what it used to be. I am having some pains… Read More Adulting-ish
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