Doctor Chef 🇸🇱

Do you realize how deeply I’d have to love you to ask you for money? For me, that’s not just asking, it’s laying down my pride and my shame in your hands. That’s next-level vulnerability. I’d only ever bill a man if my love for him was strong enough to let go of the last piece of my dignity. And that kind of love is rare, especially when it’s coming from someone whose only answer to everything is just, ‘I’m okay thank God.

May the future you're quietly building be even more beautiful than anything you've imagined.

I do this for myself And the people wey dey follow me for years I be chaser and I'm headed for the treasure.

Distance gives you perspective, and perspective helps you establish standards you might never have built without that distance.

Pressure is such a privilege

My cousin Jeremiah is staying with me for the holiday, and I noticed he hasn’t done laundry since he got here ( he has been here for almost 3 weeks now). Whenever we do laundry, I don’t see any of his clothes among our things. So, we’re doing laundry today and I asked him if he had any clothes that needed washing. He said no. So I asked him, Then what do you do with your clothes? Man said he washes them with his hands. But Jerry, why? Apparently, he doesn’t trust the washing machine. So I asked him, Are my sheets, towels and clothes not clean enough for you? (For context majority of my towels and beddings are white) He said ; Maybe Kadie uses her hands to clean them. Now, I don’t know what Jerry thinks is happening in that washing machine. All I know is, I’m lost for words.

Well, for starters, I am not “people” and I very clearly indicated that education and degrees matter. Please stay with me 🙏🏾 “Doctor” is a title you can earn either through medical school or a PhD programme. But having a degree and being intelligent are not necessarily the same thing. I remember taking an Obstetrics exam where one of the questions our professor asked was: “Discuss Safe Motherhood.” It was a question that probably only half of the class answered. I wrote on four pages to answer that question and I still had more to write, not that it matters. And I think the people who did were demonstrating a different kind of intelligence. Here’s why, When we came out of the exam, a few of us were discussing the question. Some students said they didn’t answer it because “it wasn’t taught in class.” But Safe Motherhood isn’t necessarily a standalone topic you’ll find explicitly laid out in most Obstetrics textbooks. The question required you to apply what you had learned, connect different areas of knowledge, think critically, and use problem-solving skills rather than simply recall something you had memorised. And that, to me, is intelligence. The rest is often copy, paste and cram because, let’s be honest, we all need qualifications to survive and navigate this world. A degree proves that you completed a particular course of study and met the requirements for that qualification. It doesn’t automatically measure how intelligent you are.

Education and Degree matters But intelligence isn’t confined to a classroom.

My girl is going places I’m so proud of you Rebecca ❤️