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Volunteering feels so good! Distributing pizzas 🍕 donated by Papa Johns Pizza today!! We received about 40 pizzas and made a lot of people happy!! Friday July 24, 2020 #elAsuntoEsBienSerio #aVerySeriousMatter #Volunteering #MakingArealDifference (at Orlando, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDCl8i0phO5jAONXz6ZnYtQ_C7b67_59NTDcsk0/?igshid=1refq2ara0s3x

Reposted from @mardlifetv - PSA: Coalition Of Pretty Faces Without Pretty Names We the Coalition of Pretty Faces Without Pretty Names have an important Public Service Announcement and hereby demand your attention. Again and again, we hear guys while asking others out, they see their faces, ask their names and then reply "what a pretty name for a pretty face". This has been going on for long, and it is come to our attention how much of a disadvantage we are at. Someone asks for our name, we give it to them and they find it difficult to hide their shock at our response. What? Hmmnnn! Wow! Interesting! These are some of the responses we have gotten by disclosing our names. We actually hear the part you try to hide (but fail miserably at). Your mouth might be saying wow! But your face is asking "What sort of name is that?" "Who was so wicked as to give you such a name?" "Is that really your name in this day and age?". Thank goodness we don't look like what we have been through. Our our names. Please, forthwith, you better keep a straight face when we answer your "what's your name?" question, and stop looking so shocked. And whenever you ask for our account details and find out that our name is different from the one we gave you earlier, stop looking bewildered. We only switched it up and "funkified" it because we knew you couldn't handle the truth. And for those who still go on to tell us "what a pretty name for a pretty face", thanks for the courtesy. But we know you are lying. Most importantly, we urge the Senate to pass the "Fine Name For Fine Faces" bill, so no parent can put their children through the torturous process of having to answer to ugly names. Read more on MARDLife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #PSA #Union #Association #Satire #Funny #Pretty #Face #Name #Children #Parents #Ugly #Looks - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BvypRpMne3n/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mbco4o7g4sz1

Reposted from @mardlifetv - A common desire among humans is comfort. Ultimately, everything we do is tied towards our comfort at the end of the day. It is common to see people prioritize their comfort over everything else. Some people actually take comfort over meeting their own basic needs. This easily results in laziness and its accompanying consequences. There is nothing wrong in seeking comfort, but then when it comes to comfortability, how much is too much? Necessity is often credited as the mother of all invention. If that is true, then what is the mother of complacency and dearth of innovation? There are numerous examples of enterprises starting out innovatively, stretching the frontier of what has been deemed possible and reshaping the future of industries, nations and humanity at large. Said companies then get into a "comfortable" phase. The books are balanced, profit is rolling in on a steady basis, innovation is shelved and the company switches to "autopilot" mode in production and management. These companies get so deep in their comfort zone, for years, consumers see no improvement or innovation in their products and output. The staff see no reason to improve their output cos either way, they are getting paid at the end of the month. The management sees no reason to optimize or challenge themselves, because the profit margin is either constant, improving ever slightly or decreasing at a "non-alarming" rate. The company does not care about customer feedback or how to improve on their product or their customer experience until either an old competitor improves on their product, or a new firm offers a qualitative rival product or service to the consumers. Often times, the company is already too stuck in their place of comfort and end up being unable to evolve or react adequately to salvage themselves. With minimum fuss, the company folds up and goes under. Never forget, comfortable is often the stepping stone to complacency. Read the full piece on MARDLife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #WithLoveFromDad #Father #Children #Family #Parenting #Son #Daughter #Comfort #Comfortable #Relax #Relaxation https://www.instagram.com/p/BvypOTyHqhs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=179sua3w8ki16

Reposted from @mardlifetv - Regret is defined as an emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing. To regret is to feel sorry about a thing that has happened, to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. It is to feel sorry about any thing. To regret is basically to be human. As humans, we have our good moments and the bad ones too. We do things we are extremely proud of and would want everybody to know we are responsible for such. So also, at times, we'll do things we will come back to wish we hadn't and do not want our names associated with. In the age of "My Truth", rather than owning up to mistakes, bearing the emotion of regret that comes with it and learning lessons for future application from them, people stand their ground. Even in the midst of their wrong doings, they'll insist on viewing life only through their colored lenses and only look up when it is either too late or almost too late. Regret is neither a bad nor hard word. You are allowed to regret some things. Especially when you choose to learn from them. Feeling remorseful or regret is not a sign of weakness. It is simply being human. Know that others have been where you are and still gone on to do better. Do not let regret overwhelm you. Do not let it lead you into depression. Key into it to evaluate yourself, educate yourself, energize yourself and elevate yourself. Read more on MardLife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #WeeklySpecial #WordOfTheWeek #Regret #Emotion #Remorse #Remorseful #Feeling #Growth #Mistake #LifeLessons #LifeHacks - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BvypJqRH9YP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fiona9aa4ejd

Reposted from @mardlifetv - After the last incident with Tinu (Which shall never be mentioned again), we didn’t see each other again until we finished our Junior School Leaving Examination. By the time the new school year began, one would think I would have forgotten about the incident, but no. It was seared into my brain. Throughout the long holiday, I had spent countless hours thinking and ruminating on the event. I had come up with over a thousand ways I could have steered the conversation in order to have a different outcome. Truly, if wishes were horses… I was among the last students to register for Senior Secondary School. The academic year was already about five weeks old when I eventually enrolled. It was a real struggle for the registration officer to fit me into a class. After spending over ten minutes and still being unable to find a class for me, she asked one of her assistants to put me into a class, pending when she is able to rearrange the register and fix me in a class permanently. Leaving home on that day, I had told my parents that I’ll be going into a science class, but on getting to school, at the last minute, I had changed my mind and registered as an art student. Unbeknownst to me, an unusually large number of students from my year in Junior School had enrolled in the Art Department, thereby crowding the classes and causing a logjam in the administrative office. The Administrative Assistant walked me to a class, she called on the class captain and told her that I was a new student and should be settled in. This is the story of how I met Ruth. Read more at MARDlife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #TrueLieStory #TheWomenILove #Fiction #Love #Friendship #Relationship #Childhood #Friends #BestFriends #SeniorSecondarySchool #SecondarySchool #Carl #Crush #Girlfriend #Memoir #ShortStory #Series #Teenagers #Students #NewFriend #NewYear #ClassCaptain #Ruth https://www.instagram.com/p/BvkTEASHfJh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uuvnfdy6wfif

Reposted from @mardlifetv - Electoral Appeal - YMCMPP With the 2019 election season gradually, tediously and most importantly, "eventually" coming to a close, we the greatest party ever in the history of Nigeria, (though yet to be officially inaugurated) have noticed an ugly trend. As the future ruling party of Nigeria, it behoves on us to tackle this insidious pattern. As Nigerians, electoral appeals, both significant and ridiculous ones altogether have come to become an important aspect of our electoral process. We eagerly anticipate after the final vote is casted to see which party or candidate will be the first to show up at the courthouse. Members of the YMCMPP have been taking bets to see if a candidate will appeal before the results are being announced, while the results are being announced or after the results have been announced. Some of us even go as far as wagering on how many parties and how many cases will eventually come up in court. This is why it was very saddening to see members of the current ruling party in Nigeria, the All Progressive Congress, coming out to implore, beg and cajole Atiku Abubakar and his party, the People's Democratic Party from going to appeal the outcome of the Presidential Election in court. What is even more disturbing was watching some women come out to protest, or more appropriately, demonstrate and urge Atiku Abubakar ti accept the result of the election and concede defeat. Where was all this concern when then Muhammad Buhari went to court after each of his three previous losses at the poll? Why didn't anyone advise Godswill Akpabio not to appeal his own loss? He didn't even wait for the election appeal court before instituting his appeal, he went to lodge his complaint before a regular court. Probably his lawyer or party eventually educated him on why he should have put the case before an electoral court. Read the full piece on MARDLife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #TrueLieStory #YMCMPP #Fiction #Satire #Politics #Nigeria #Elections #Election #Electoral #Appeal #INEC #Buhari #Akpabio #Atiku #PDP #APC - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvhu9LcnmLX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vopne8zeqhc8

Reposted from @mardlifetv - My name is Happiness, and I am on a journey to the Altar. I forgot to mention, I am single and searching. I am not searching for a boyfriend, I am actually still looking for the one who will ask my hand in marriage and take me to the altar. Were you expecting me to journey to the altar alone? I was brought up on the belief that after facing my studies, getting out of school and finding myself a good job, I will just up and meet a “Tall, Dark and Handsome” young man who will think the world of me and stop at nothing to “woo” me the way those guys do in the novels I read growing up, I will eventually “agree” for him and we will have the “Wedding of the Century”. On a scale that will put the British Royals to shame. I am the last born and only girl with two elder brothers. I am nicknamed “Pension Baby” cos of the circumstances surrounding my birth. My eldest brother was getting out of the university while my immediate elder brother was just getting in when my mom found out she was pregnant with me. Mummy had just turned Forty Five years old while Daddy was Fifty One years Old. It was a surprise that left my parents wondering what must have gone wrong with their family planning. I was born on the 31st of December 1995 and the happiness that greeted my birth must have left my parents so lazy that they ended up christening me Happiness. Read the #first episode of the ROAD TO ALTAR Series. Up on the blog now. MARDLife.com Link in Bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #TrueLieStory #RoadToAltar #Fiction #ShortStory #Series #Love #Lovers #Boyfriend #Girlfriend #Relationship #Happiness #Marriage #Single #SingleAndSearching, - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BuKNsf4HfKD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oco4i5ggvok5

Reposted from @mardlifetv - Fortune favors the bold. What favors the timid? Misfortune? Destruction? Penury? Lack? Or fortune also? Nigerians are generally a bold collection of people. Any assembly of people, irrespective of the number of people there, if there is or are Nigerians there, they easily make themselves known, try to dominate proceedings or at least, ensure you’ll never forget your encounter with them. But what happens when it comes to politics and policy? Nigerians generally are either not bold or can’t be bothered about it. The smartest as well as the most honest and hard-working people in Nigeria have got a phobia for everything related to getting involved in governance. We generally believe politics is a “dirty game”, filled with greedy, evil people and we don’t want to get “stained” or loose our “virtues” by getting involved with them. Meanwhile, since the “worst” of us are the only ones willing to get their hands dirty in the muddy waters of Nigerian politics, every year we come back to complain about having to choose from the best of two evils. Fortune favors the bold. A few intelligent and passionate people are running for various offices in this election. If you have not been bold enough to run for office or join a political office, the least you can do is support those who have summoned the boldness to do so. Cast your vote for people you genuinely believe in. Fortune does favors the bold. Fortune also favors the wise voters. Read more on MARDLife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #WeeklySpecial #IdiomsAndProverbs #Fortune #Favor #Bold #Wise #Foolish #Nigeria #Nigerians #Election #Politics #Fool #PotOfGold #Rainbow - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BuKNmlJHPl1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ov20qo89tvom