Inyas Yamal

I would like to point some things out and I hope you find meaning. You’re not overwhelmed because life is unusually hard. You’re overwhelmed because your mind has no gatekeeper. Every thought gets VIP access. Every emotion gets a response. Every impulse gets entertained. That’s exhausting. Most people don’t suffer from too much to do.They suffer from too much mental noise. Notifications. Opinions. Imaginary futures. Old arguments. Hypotheticals. Regrets. Doom-scrolling. All running at once. An undisciplined mind treats everything as urgent.A disciplined mind asks: Does this deserve my energy? Without that filter, even small problems feel unbearable. Overwhelm is often a boundary issue not with people, but with your own thoughts. Just because a thought appears doesn’t mean it needs attention. Just because you feel something doesn’t mean you must act. Mental strength is about prioritizing emotions What matters now? What can wait? What can be ignored entirely? Life didn’t suddenly become heavier. Your mind just stopped saying “no.” And when everything matters equally, nothing feels manageable. Build filters. Limit inputs. Slow your reactions. Choose silence more often. Clarity isn’t found by doing more it’s found by entertaining less. Discipline doesn’t make life rigid. It makes it lighter. Because peace isn’t the absence of problems it’s the ability to decide what doesn’t get access to you.

The more countries I visit, the more I realise that Nigerians have an extraordinary ability to turn the most basic administrative process into a personal relationship. You can’t just submit a document. Somebody must know somebody.

Imagine being a billionaire’s dog. You don’t know what money is, you’ve never worked a day in your life, and your medical expenses are higher than the annual salary of the man who walks you.

Somewhere in Nigeria, there’s a man who has borrowed money from six different people and each one believes they’re the only person helping him through a temporary financial situation. That’s not borrowing anymore. That’s investor relations.

There’s a particular confidence Nigerian airport taxi drivers have when quoting prices. You can tell the man has calculated your destination, your luggage, your accent and your perceived desperation before opening his mouth.

One thing about Nigerian bureaucracy is that you can submit every document they requested and they’ll still ask for something that wasn’t on the list. At this point, paperwork is just an elaborate guessing competition.

Imagine being an ancient Egyptian architect and finding out that 4,000 years later people are still arguing whether you actually built the pyramids or aliens helped you. That’s a very disrespectful performance review.

I wonder how many people have unknowingly walked past someone who will eventually become famous for committing a very serious crime. You could have asked the guy for directions and moved on with your life.

The fact that people can spend years building a professional reputation and then lose all credibility because of one badly timed screenshot is proof that the internet has no respect for career development.

I don’t understand how people can casually leave their phones with strangers to take pictures. You’ve just handed someone your entire financial life, private conversations and family secrets because you wanted a full-body photo.

Imagine being an ancient Egyptian architect and finding out that 4,000 years later people are still arguing whether you actually built the pyramids or aliens helped you. That’s a very disrespectful performance review.

I need to know who first decided that a tiny bottle of water in a hotel minibar should cost more than an entire pack outside. You’re already paying for the room. Why is hydration being treated as a luxury investment?

I think some people are only considered intelligent because they speak slowly and use complicated words. Give them five minutes to explain something practical and the entire reputation starts collapsing.

The fact that we can communicate with astronauts in space but still have to stand beside a window to get mobile network reception in certain buildings is an embarrassing contradiction in human technological progress.

I need someone to explain why a device can work perfectly for three years and suddenly develop problems the exact morning you’re demonstrating it to a client. Electronics have a very disturbing sense of humour.

Airports are the only places where you can spend thousands of dollars on a ticket and still be treated like you’re begging someone for a favour. You’re paying to travel, yet somehow you’re the one apologising for existing.

Some people are not introverts. They just haven’t met anyone they consider worth talking to. There’s a difference, and it’s not a particularly flattering one.

A Nigerian can spend 15 years abroad complaining about everything back home, then get genuinely offended when a foreigner agrees with him. That’s family business. You weren’t invited to contribute.

I wonder how many people have been declared missing by their families when they’re actually somewhere living peacefully and avoiding everybody on purpose.

I think the most powerful person in any airport is the woman who decides whether your hand luggage looks too heavy. She can ruin an entire international itinerary with one facial expression.

It’s funny how people are terrified AI will become conscious when we haven’t even figured out why the office printer refuses to print a PDF until somebody threatens it.