Yesterday my 16 year old lil bro collapses, breathing stops, gets diagnosed with a heart problem…
Please see his first entry into the siblings chat while admitted into the hospital on the same day:
Only birth control I need is not being financially stable. I want my kids to have an incredible life & can get spoiled & travel. No financial stability, no kids.
Never mind all of us losing it. Parents dem nuh stop bawl. They got a whole tailgating ting a gwan a KPH w/ lawn chairs. Yet my brother in the sibs chat critiquing how we lifted him into the car & he was UNCONSCIOUS! 😭
Applied for a job overseas at 7:30am, they messaged me at 8 setting up an interview for tomorrow.
I was just applying for kicks cause I don’t think they take internationals. Let’s see how this goes!
I wanted to retweet this again. JAMAICA has the FIFTH highest energy price IN THE WORLD.... IN. THE. WORLD. IN. THE. WOOOORRLDD. The whole entire WORLD
I just got a call from England & I rejected it twice, I see the 3rd call & I answered… it’s a university asking me if I wanted a scholarship for their PhD program. 😧🙃
He has given women that date cheaters the answers they wanted. No, you’re not special. No, it is not love. No, you did not take her man. No, he isn’t having a hard time & going to change. He knows what he’s doing. You’re convenient. You let him have both, so he does.
Final update: Beatboxing on my bedroom door means? Lil bro got his freedom papers & is out the hospital. No idea what’s wrong & we got no solid treatment plan. Just sorrows sorrows prayers.
Now we watch him closely, go to specialists & get neuro tests done to see what’s up. 🤞🏾
I tell jobs 200k or more & dem vex, start bawl down… Start talk about but you don’t have enough experience? Yuh think I could bawl down the millions I paid for my Masters. Gimme the work & I show you experience.
NOBODY is too busy to say, “I’m going to be busy today, we’ll talk as soon as I get some time”. NOBODY. Go argue with your lord & savior that took a rest day.
Missing children, murders, corruption daily, cults, no jobs, vaccine hesitancy, poor media ethics, vaccinated stuck inside, politicians confused af, robberies, the price for everything going up, mental health problems rising… this is hell.
In Jamaica, you apply for a job January 5th, there is no response. You don’t know whether they got your application or nothing.
Employment process here is horrible.
While we are on this topic of J-O-B:
I have a BA in Communication Arts & Technology and a MS in International Communication. I got certificates in Digital Marketing & Hospitality Management too & mi ready fi a work.
Signal boost deh.
“Honeymoon phase” ting gives me the ick. Yuh fi feel like mi a dead ova yuh all the time & vice versa. All when wi vex, yuh know yuh govern… spot nah guh nowhere. Anything less is not for me.
We take time for granted. Second chances, tomorrows, soon, hoping for all this time to fix things. You have no idea if you’ll be alive in the next second. You have now, that’s it.
Cherish, repair, love on, value the things & people that matter to you. We’re not here forever.
Jamaica get so bad that you have to write down plate number, send it someone, take a picture of the driver, check the trunk, check who comes in the car, where it turns off, video the ride.
Bredjin, mi affi tun a whole security system and invigilate a driver’s test at once.
I saw him & got him lunch & dinner & we talked a bit. 😌
Backstory: I met Shawn 5 years ago while doing a homelessness piece for school. Once I see him, I stop & we talk, I grab him lunch or something. Always polite, never asks for anything.
So if you spot him, doh diss.
Even if Covid ends December, which it won’t, the aftermath of the pandemic a slap wi for at least another 3-5 years, carry the 10 because this is Jamaica… we have a good 15 years left of more BS. Simple COVDAS.
In Case You Missed It:
- A # of precincts went down in flames.
- Chauvin & Floyd (RIP) were coworkers for 17 years.
- National Guard was given the okay w/ the directive, “if they looting, start shooting”
- Democracy takes the back burner as CNN reporter gets arrested live.
Before the Independence Day done, let me big up our Jamaican plays:
Class of 73
Ras Noah & The Ark
Higglers
Vibes
Di Driva
Passa Passa
Bashment Granny
See Boops Deh
Unda Mi Nose
Ladies of the Night
& a lot more.
Poor woman just wanna be loved til shiloh because that is her destiny as a champion but it is not an easy road. All these untold stories about the hills & valleys is beginning to leave her buried alive.
A month ago I collected my BA & today I’m in NY with my
#1
to do our Masters together. God is so good. God always make a way.
2018 is that year, believe fam.
For big people unuh don’t know how to deal wid people & just be considerate. Emotional awareness & intelligence is a gift and wherever unuh need fi guh buy it… don’t walk, run.
That’s the kind of name you never shorten. When she goes to Kindergarten & the teacher says, what’s your name?
Olympia Lightning Bolt.
“Just your first name sweetie.”
Olympia Lightning Bolt.
It’s weird how a lot of our childhood issues stem from neglect, not being listened to, lack of communication & emotional awareness yet, a lot repeat the same thing.
Generational wealth isn’t the only thing that needs building. Work on those childhood traumas.
Paternity tests at birth along with court mandated child support commitment from men if they are the father. Simple ting. Men shouldn’t be getting duped & women need to be protected in some way from deadbeats.