Jenwaki's Life Bench

I was arguing with a friend about how good people looked back in the day especially in a black and white photo, way before the colour photograph was incorporated. I argued that they tried as much as possible to keep their physical appearance natural. He argued that the look mainly came from the quality of the photo. I still dispute that as currently, technology has brought beauty in everything, even something that is supposed to be downright ugly. I will therefore begin describing women from that time our mothers were still being courted by our daddies. The average woman had an all round figure. Not thin, not fat, simple. Every feature she possessed was in place. The hair had the right colour of jet black, texture and length. No weaves existed then and for the few that did, they were only worn by sex workers. The face was more often flawless, mainly chocolate in complexion, full cheeks, full lips and bright eyes that looked back at you with the innocence of a saint. A face you would ...

In our past or current life, we are surrounded by friends and whatever phase we are in, they will always be there, old or new. They stir all kinds of emotions in us that changes our lives for better or worse.   I always wondered how boring life would be without them. We begin making friends since childhood. Children are mainly known to make imaginary friends especially if the child has no siblings or is encountering some bullying or ridicule from other children. As we grow up, we start placing value in our friends. There are those we want to keep forever and there are those we have for convenient reasons. If they stay on, good enough but if they don't, we quickly forget about them and move on. In high school the bond between friends is tighter as our energies are not much divided.   That changes in college as our priorities change. We become more adventurous and do not want to be tied too much to our old friends. We want to discover more and that’s is when we get serious ...