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Sorry, I realised I haven't shared the topics for this #winterabc2020 so here they are.

be GRATEFUL. I saw a little girl, Blessing I think, 5yrs or so. She has to take care of her bedridden mother and little sister. Hearing her narrate how they sometimes have to sleep without eating, change her mom and little sister, and as if that's not bad enough, sometimes they have to sleep in pools of water because saying their shack leaks is such an understatement.

I know it may be difficult through the depression, anxiety, not sure where maybe the next meal will come from or rentals. But be grateful, on your good day, minute or hour, don't walk by the Sun without saying anything. Say half a prayer, you're alive, well, clothed and fed. Be grateful.

kindness goes a LONG WAY. We are kin in our wandering. Warriors in unseen and untold frays. Once in a while just affirming someone else, an "I see you, you are valid, you will be alright" saves a night of tears. Tech has the world in our hands and when we embrace each other eadsily, so lets.

noise is just, THAT NOISE. We #hashtag, chant, yell, even throw punches. At the end of the day, the dead lie with dirt in their eyes, the plighted in their wars, the rich still basking in the sun on their manicured lawns behind high walls. News cycles like brooms sweep the proceeding ones and we find new ephemeral ire. Nothing changes. The system is still intact.

an INDELIBLE MEMORY. The internet has an indelible memory. Be wise, lest you be haunted by ghosts of your own making.

#winterabc202 #winterabc #afrobloggers #day6