real Jema

Joined December 2021

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If you could say one thing and be heard by the entire world, what would that be?

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The audacity of hope
I believe we can give : Jobs to the jobless, Homes to the homeless, Hope to the hopeless, Light in the darkness.
By real Jema2 years ago in Poets
Complex links to problems
You might be wondering why poverty is so difficult to solve, why despite all the technology we have education is still not that accessible. Why there are still wars all over the place etc We are on the verge of free global internet and yet these are still problems which plague our daily lives. Each of these issues do have reasons which can justify their existence, and today I want to explain why they are so difficult to resolve. Let's first look at what an ideal situation would look like.
By real Jema2 years ago in FYI
I didn’t expect you to care
Our education when we were young, the environment we grew up in and religion are the main factors which teach us to care for others. We learn from our parents to show empathy towards others and to expect the same from them. Likewise, the environment we grew up in might have individuals who show a lot of concern for us, generally kids of our age also in need of love and affection who probably receive the same lessons. Finally, religion teaches us that we are one, and we should treat others the same. These are the few avenues I could think of which really teach us how to show concern and care for others, there might be more.
By real Jema2 years ago in Motivation
A smile can hide so much pain
There is a widespread belief that positivity attracts positivity, even though I believe this is true to a degree, there isn’t necessarily a direct correlation. This belief has led people to be more inclined to socialize with positive persons and to resent negative persons.
By real Jema2 years ago in Confessions
Writer’s Block
I won’t say that I have ran out of ideas, but I am rather questioning the pertinence of what I write about, whether it's even a worthwhile effort. Most of the people I want to touch with my writing aren’t even going to see them anyway and for the very few who do, I fear they’ll become numb to all what I am sharing. To be honest, I have faced the same dilemma from the other side as well, when I have to consume a lot of wisdom content from a specific writer. It's quite entertaining, but eventually I realize that I am unable to apply all those lessons in my life, and it makes me frustrated, so I stop watching or reading.
By real Jema2 years ago in Writers
What an evil person looks like
Reading through the news, I saw an article which talked about a young man who slaughtered his girlfriend, and instantly I had many questions on my mind. The most obvious question was to know why a person so young would do something so heinous, I wondered to myself why go to such a length and not simply walk away. Cutting the throat of a person requires a certain level of anger and premeditation, you can’t just do such an act out of randomness.
By real Jema2 years ago in Confessions
Why I write so much
In the current climate of content creators, it has become abundantly clear that quantity is better than quality, with some luck a piece of that quantity might turn out to be something of quality. That's just the era we are in right now, I think this might have been boosted with the COVID-19 lockdowns which forced people to be bored for long periods of time. That’s when we basically realized that even a bad piece is still worthwhile.
By real Jema2 years ago in Writers
Complaining leads to Inaction
There is no shortage of persons who can point out all the flaws of society, no matter which country you are in or where you are there is always someone who can tell you precisely what is wrong with the world. When it comes to my country Cameroon, you can get that assessment pretty much every where you look, whether its those who are drinking in bars, on news channels, in offices, even on the roadside everybody knows pretty well what is wrong and they can go as far as proposing solutions too.
By real Jema2 years ago in Motivation
The willingness to learn & change
You’d think, with all the smart people out here, they should have been able to figure out solutions which help everybody or at least their closest relatives thrive and succeed to a certain extent. A puzzling fact is that a billionaire can still have relatives who are very much considered poor or struggling. Of course, I don’t expect them to go around sharing their wealth with everybody who is remotely close to them, but I at least expect them to figure out something which works for them. Maybe point them in the right direction.
By real Jema2 years ago in Humans
Are you lazy?
In terms of productivity, I’ve been looking for tools to measure precisely my productivity. I found a couple of them which did give me some promising results, but eventually I realized that I didn’t need tools to measure my productive. I also understood why companies don’t measure productivity in terms of what people do on a daily basis. They look at the bigger picture, at the end of the day it's the execution of the higher level tasks which matter and not what small tasks people get done daily.
By real Jema2 years ago in Confessions
Become what it takes
Numerous persons have already shared their dreams with me, their aspirations and what they want to ultimately become in life. Personally there are also things I aspire to become and some other things I had to give up entirely. There was a moment when I wanted to become an actor, another time I wanted to become a musician, astronaut, and all one not. Whenever a person shares their dreams with me, what I’ve learned to do is observe their current lifestyle, to kind of get a sense of whether they will be able to become what they want. If their current lifestyle can even sustain that. Most times than not you will have a person aspiring for a highly demanding position meanwhile they aren’t even able to manage a little stress without crashing out.
By real Jema2 years ago in Motivation
Ways of changing people
There are many reasons why we would want to change a person, maybe they have a specific character trait which is incompatible with a team, or maybe they are just very pessimistic, and you want to make them more optimistic. Perhaps they are somebody who is very divisive, or maybe they are difficult to deal with. In some other cases maybe you just want them to be hardworking, like a leader might want others to be a certain way.
By real Jema2 years ago in Education