A short story by Olorunfemi Akin-Olowoyo

Introduction

Broken beauty portrays a lot that pride can do to destroy good things.”

If you don’t know, beauty may stay but not forever if the inner beauty is damaged.

The story begins…

The day opens up with a gloomy smile on nature and creature. Aduke, the beauty of the land wakes up to another day of emotional experience.She sits on the bed reminiscing on her days with Akanni, the handsome man from a prominent family.Their journey of love started when they met at a festival and it lasted for a year. She is the beauty that every man desires to have as a soul mate but her pride took over.When she loved Akanni, she gave her, all to him and oh, how deceitful beauty can be in the face of the beholder.

Akanni gained her trust in the first six months of their love affair without knowing that he had an oblivion agenda for her.

On that raining evening, she went to visit him as usual. Akanni had planned to break her pride and ego that day all because she was a virgin.

A few moments later, she was drinking the palm wine which Akanni had sedated. Then she fell into the world of slumber.

And alas! Akanni had his way with her. On waking up, she was messed up and her priceless value is gone, her beauty has been ruined.

The man standing close by pleaded for the act but the deed has been done, the glory has been stolen!

Jolted back to reality, she said the words of a broken soul;

“Oh! How deceitful the heart is and the home of lie! Not so much a gold is all that glitters. Not so much sincere is the love of men! Oh! That beauty may define character, then the world would be pleasant! Oh That men may see the heart of all, how safe would we dwell! But the Creator never made it so. All that you see is all that you believe.

Assumption is not powerful enough to define man!

Love would have been genuine if I had taken humility as a garment.
The best would have come if I had regard for nature and its dwellers!
Would I have been humble, Eleduwa (God) would have guided my path, For He respects the humble in heart and resists the proud!But now, here I am taught the best way to live in a hard way.

My beauty is broken! My glory stolen! And my jewel and my pride taken away! No one regards me nor do I show pleasantness to men again.

I become like fruitful tree with thorns cut down. But I would rise again! Not in the clothing of beauty, But in the garment of character and humility! And my glory stolen shall be restored! My beauty, broken shall be renewed!

I Am A Broken Beauty But The I Am Rising Again like a Phoenix! ✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾 _*HennyOmoAkin*_

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Me:Take your 'RISK' now!

You: 👀 is that a gift?! 

Me:Don't look at me like that, soon you will find out about it 🙄....

You: Ok!😲

Me:Enough of playing around🤫 let's get serious! 🤔

Now, the above dialogue might have confuse you and probably you have lost interest but I bet you really want to know more about my view on risk.

Take it or leave it, I won’t force you to take any risk of reading this piece about R.I.S.K but before you take the risk of judging this piece, take the risk of reading through. 😉

First of all, let me introduce my very operational definition of R.I.S.K to you.

The risk I did ask you to take from the above dialogue is simply
R – REQUIRED .
I – INTEGRATED .
S – SURVIVAL .
K – KIT

⚜️ RISK is inevitable and always available at every milestone and on your way to success of achieving your goals.

It is Risky not to take risks because risk is unavoidable.

Comfort. O

Maybe you don’t know that the little mundane things/actions you do are also risk involved.

In fact, Sleeping, waking, breathing is a risk.
That being said, you need to know the R.I.S.K you are taking.

There are good and bad RISKs but don’t refrain from taking the good risks.

The Good R.I.S.Ks you are likely to take anytime soon or you don’t realise you are taking already are;

☑️ Starting that business 👨‍⚖️👩‍⚖️

☑️ Investing in yourself 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

☑️ Showcasing your talents🤸‍♂️

☑️ Voicing your opinion 🗣

☑️ Loving (again) 😍

But unfortunately and in all through sense, you have been judiciously taking the bad R.I.S.Ks

📢If you don’t take the good R.I.S.Ks, you are unknowingly taking the bad R.I.S.Ks like;

❗ Not taking the risk of starting a business, or getting a job is optioning to be poor for life, which is a bad risk. 😬🥺

❗ You fear the risk of paying for an online skill acquisition class, because of one factor or the other is being outdated and not fully equipped with skills needed for the digital world of this dispensation is a bad risk. 😄

❗ Hiding your talents for the fear of mockery, criticism and jest is a bad risk 😬

❗ Not being heard because you are afraid to be on the spotlight is a very bad risk 🤐

❗ Losing that person to someone else because when you were meant to take the bold step, you were stalling. Gosh! This also is a bad risk!😪

It goes on and on, if I may continue, it will take me day unto day to exhaust the bad risks.

🚫 Here is what you will do for me now

You will have to choose the R.I.S.K you want now!

But I bet, you have learned enough in this write up to know that you have to go for the good (R)equired (I)ntegrated (S)urvival (K)it.

BACK TO MY QUESTION ABOVE; Would you still take a Risk??

I really appreciate your patience for the time I was offline.

You will enjoy more inspirational pieces from me henceforth and as the usual updates will be every Monday.

Till I come your way again, I remain COMFYFLEX®

©comfyflex

Do you want to know if people around you care about your career?Do you wish to know why you don’t have friends?Do you want to know your real enemy?There is just one thing that connects these questions together, and it is called; DISCERNING!Your ability to discern what part of the criticism around you, should be used as a progression tool would be revealed in this post.

Do you know Who CARES?”𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘪 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵!”

“𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵!””𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘦? 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵!””𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯, 𝘳𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘴𝘩? 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵!””𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦, 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦? 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵!”

These and many more thoughts overflow my head as I brawl out my eyes.

I see no love in their actions, I see no support in their actions. I see no encouragement in their actions. I was bitter, beaten and broken.

I wanted peace and all the good feelings to come back to me. I wanted to be known as the good girl of the family, as a good and worthy friend to my friends, and nice sister to my siblings.

But I got a message from a write up like this on that fateful day I was planning my escape from the pain.

I saw that message when other couldn’t see it. I read and read the post again. I shed tears from my heart that I have missed the sᴇɴsᴇ in the NONꜱᴇɴꜱᴇ.

Photo source:

You can either see your situation in two ways:👇

• For the criticism, beating, chiding, chastising; ᴀꜱ ᴍᴀʏʙᴇ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴄᴀʀᴇ!
• For the early morning wake up calls, for the fingers pointed at your mistakes; ᴀꜱ ᴍᴀʏʙᴇ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴄᴀʀᴇ!
• The pestering and “Hope you know what you’re doing?” “This job you have decided on, will it bring money?” “Don’t press too much, don’t do as if you know everything!”.

All these questions could be that they are helping me to see the world in a whole new dimension, maybe they didn’t want me to waste my time now and regret later?; ᴀꜱ ᴍᴀʏʙᴇ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴄᴀʀᴇ!

• You can decide to see criticism as a corrector, you can decide to see *DEPRESSION* AS A *PROGRESSION* TOOL.
• You can see it as a force or eye-opener. Maybe you can see the care in your parents chiding and chastisement. Maybe you can see care in your friends harsh pointers.

These, and many more I discovered in the post, back in that year. It has helped me in some harsh situations, where my coach has declined my posts, when she had made a point not to attend to any direct messages from me.If I had not seen care, correction in her chiding and acts, I would have thought she hated me and wouldn’t even put more effort in my training, not to talk of coming out as a refined writer.Let’s move to that question that scares me, which is;

Photo source: instagram

WHAT IF THEY DON’T CARE?

They may not care because this life is not a bed of roses. So, not everybody would love you. Do remember the story of that Farmer, his donkey and his son.

They may not care because they don’t like what they are seeing.

People sometimes want to associate with success, they want to be known with celebrities. They love luxury and successful things but now they can’t see that in your struggles because you are cooking. You are a SUCCESS in the making. _Comfort. O

POUNDED YAM may decide not to take the beatings of the pestle in the mortar and stay as YAM.I made a quote in my last post and it goes thus__

“This vision of the mission you have seen is only known to you and trust me, nobody would understand you because the vision of the mission is only know by you.” (qυoтe вy coмғorт. o).The people around you don’t see what is in your vision, don’t know about your mission but you do and the only way to prove you are *INTENTIONAL* is to actualse your 🅅🄸🅂🄸🄾🄽 and bring it out!

It’s just like when you dream and no one sees it because you are the only one who had dreamt it but it is not through narration they get to know it but through realisation. Don’t you remember the story of JOSEPH the dreamer boy.

Even when you’re knee deep in harsh critiques, remember you have got only yourself to waddle through it

Bottom line of this, is to tell you that people who gives criticism sometimes MAY CARE and sometimes MAY NOT CARE. You have to discern!

@comfyflex

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*BECOME A MAJOR IF YOU WANT TO OVERCOME LOW SELF-ESTEEM!*

What does it mean to become a major?

Why is it necessary to be a major?

Your question would keep going on and on in that way but do you know what the opposite of major is?

*It is minor!*

_A minor_ is someone who is insignificant and have an image lower to his worth.

When you are a minor, you are trodden upon and drag about by the forces of the basic world elements.

That is when worry starts to set in, that is when you have mistrust and large insecurities about your spouse, your career, you life.

That is when doubt sets in and all you see is negativity with everything around you.

You see NO where you are meant to see YES.

This diminish you and let you focus on the wrong things.
When you are meant to be growing, improving and promoting prosocial behavior, you are there thinking about your failures and how low you are.

*Stop it right now!*

Where is that authority given to you in Christ? Where is that “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” person?

When you don’t know what you worth in Christ, you let worries, depression, mistrust, insecurities, infidelity, pessimism sets in.

_Become a major today and set free from the bondage of minority and slavery._

How do I become a major?

• ¶ First thing first, you can’t gain in a business when you are not in it. Find your place in God!

Choose the side you want to be on. On God side, you are always a major and a heir. You are called to take him in today.

• ¶ Know your worth as he, who abides in God and who God abides in. Know your worth as a child of God, as a heir. Know your worth.
• ¶ Don’t just know your worth as a heir but use it. Use your full right. In your relationship, command peace, love, trust and integrity.
• ¶ Use it at the right time and in the right way, if as a heir, all you do is oppress people and misuse God’s resources then you are a minor, because a major use resources to improve lives and impact.

When you do this, you command all the basic forces of the world under your feet.
You worry less and depression has no chance with you.

*Note* : The problem in your relationship, family, career, marriage will always be a major and you will remain subjected under the bondage and in slavery, if you don’t mount the throne rightfully as

a heir and become a *MAJOR*.

#it is a blessed Monday
#Makeithappenmondays
#healthyliving

*BECOME A MAJOR IF YOU WANT TO OVERCOME LOW SELF-ESTEEM!*

What does it mean to become a major?

Why is it necessary to be a major?

Your question would keep going on and on in that way but do you know what the opposite of major is?

*It is minor!*

_A minor_ is someone who is insignificant and have an image lower to his worth.

When you are a minor, you are trodden upon and drag about by the forces of the basic world elements.

That is when worry starts to set in, that is when you have mistrust and large insecurities about your spouse, your career, you life.

That is when doubt sets in and all you see is negativity with everything around you.

You see NO where you are meant to see YES.

This diminish you and let you focus on the wrong things.
When you are meant to be growing, improving and promoting prosocial behavior, you are there thinking about your failures and how low you are.

*Stop it right now!*

Where is that authority given to you in Christ? Where is that “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” person?

When you don’t know what you worth in Christ, you let worries, depression, mistrust, insecurities, infidelity, pessimism sets in.

_Become a major today and set free from the bondage of minority and slavery._

How do I become a major?

• ¶ First thing first, you can’t gain in a business when you are not in it. Find your place in God!

Choose the side you want to be on. On God side, you are always a major and a heir. You are called to take him in today.

• ¶ Know your worth as he, who abides in God and who God abides in. Know your worth as a child of God, as a heir. Know your worth.
• ¶ Don’t just know your worth as a heir but use it. Use your full right. In your relationship, command peace, love, trust and integrity.
• ¶ Use it at the right time and in the right way, if as a heir, all you do is oppress people and misuse God’s resources then you are a minor, because a major use resources to improve lives and impact.

When you do this, you command all the basic forces of the world under your feet.
You worry less and depression has no chance with you.

*Note* : The problem in your relationship, family, career, marriage will always be a major and you will remain subjected under the bondage and in slavery, if you don’t mount the throne rightfully as

a heir and become a *MAJOR*.

#it is a blessed Monday
#Makeithappenmondays
#healthyliving