Moods

03/04/2025

23/03/2025

You think your plans didn’t work out?

Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore thought they were going to space only for 8 days.
They ended up being there for 286 days.

They were LITERALLY stranded in space.

Imagine this:
👉🏾 You pack for a short trip, but instead, you’re gone for almost a year.
👉🏾 No fresh air. No real food. No way out, just waiting in the void of space.
👉🏾 No clear answer to when (or even if) you’ll make it back home.

And here we are, losing patience when:
- A 10-minute traffic jam ruins our day.
- A deal gets delayed by a few days/ months.
- A rejection email makes us want to quit.

Those astronauts had no control over their situation. They couldn’t just book a return flight. They had to accept, adapt, stay calm and trust the process for 286 days of uncertainty.

And they made it.

If THAT isn’t the ultimate lesson of Patience, Endurance, and Problem-solving, I don’t know what it is.

Hats-off to these legends for not just surviving but making history.

Next time life throws unexpected delays at us, let’s remember:
At least we’re not stranded in space.

Life will throw curveballs. Your plans will go Haywire, things will take WAY longer than expected.
But if these astronauts can survive nine months in space instead of eight days, you and I can surely handle a few detours here & there in life.



Credits Aunty MARGO

20/03/2025

13/03/2025

You need to eat this before you talk to me :

03/03/2025

The “Dead Horse Theory” is a satirical metaphor that illustrates how some individuals, institutions, or nations handle obvious, unsolvable problems. Instead of accepting reality, they cling to justifying their actions.

The core idea is simple: if you realize you’re riding a dead horse, the most sensible thing to do is dismount and move on.

However, in practice, the opposite often happens. Instead of abandoning the dead horse, people take actions such as:

• Buying a new saddle for the horse.
• Improving the horse’s diet, despite it being dead.
• Changing the rider instead of addressing the real problem.
• Firing the horse caretaker and hiring someone new, hoping for a different outcome.
• Holding meetings to discuss ways to increase the dead horse’s speed.
• Creating committees or task forces to analyze the dead horse problem from every angle. These groups work for months, compile reports, and ultimately conclude the obvious: the horse is dead.
• Justifying efforts by comparing the horse to other similarly dead horses, concluding that the issue was a lack of training.
• Proposing training programs for the horse, which means increasing the budget.
• Redefining the concept of “dead” to convince themselves the horse still has potential.

The Lesson:

This theory highlights how many people and organizations prefer to deny reality, wasting time, resources, and effort on ineffective solutions instead of acknowledging the problem from the start and making smarter, more effective decisions.

What are your thoughts about this theory?