Just Saying

My love affair started a few months back. It started as with all affairs, when we started communicating. It crept up on me. I wasn't even aware it was happening. This relationship which seemed untenable in the beginning. Was turning into something more. You were slowly becoming the best part of my day. Yes, it was still overwhelming and a lot of work but I had hit the sweet part. When you smile at me, it is such sweet joy. You literally light up my world. Okay, enough gushing already. Let's just say it was surprising. The early days were not easy. I was with you the whole day and didn't feel loved. Didn't feel wanted. I felt used. Felt like no one really cared. But like with most things it got better. We evolved and now, we are one. I know this won't last forever but I cherish each moment. Each kiss, every simple hug and I love your laugh most of all.

Oprah Winfrey, tv legend and one of, if not the richest woman in the world with a net worth of 2.9 billion, recently explained in an interview with Hollywood reporters why she didn't have kids. "If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me, because something in my life would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them. Gayle (now a mother of two) was the kind of kid who, in seventh grade class, was writing down her name and the names of her children while I was having daydreams about how I could be a Martin Luther King". Linda posted this on her blog,read HERE . The comments weren't unexpected for the average Nigerian. I guess I am just pained because we continually show an intolerance for people or things that don't think the way we do.  So, Oprah felt she would not make a good mother. That she would be unable to balance her career and the demand of having kids. ...