Epiphanies Of Life

Where you are, is very important for where you’re going. At times, we get frustrated because we feel stuck and stagnant, like there’s no progress, whereas other people are finding success and making big leaps in their lives. That may be due to many reasons from your side and the progressing person’s side, but once you take account of where you are and become honest about how you got there, you will start to see solutions for the future rather than being stuck in the mindset of being surrounded by problems. Solutions provide hope and a way forward. A way to get yourself out of difficult situations that you never thought you’d find yourself in. Remember though, finding yourself is exactly why you are in that situation. Once you uncover your true self and become honest about who you are, that is when the situation will start to shift and change towards your benefit. While you wait for the progress and the change to come, you need to prepare yourself. Prepare yourself for you...

As many of you may know, I am a huge fan of giving and helping out where you can. One of my mottos in life is, “Do the best you can with what you have.” You don’t have to be a multi-millionaire or a billionaire to give and to help out. I believe that giving is a pure act of love as you don’t really get anything return but a good feeling that you did something that made someone’s life that much easier, whether it’s for life or for a moment. I personally started taking giving seriously in 2009. My mother, Mrs S.G Sehole, a grade 1 teacher at the time, had come across a young boy in her class who just lost her grandmother and was now being raised by his sister, who was in matric at the time.   The boy wore torn pants, didn’t have underwear and was teased because of it. So, my mom went to Pep Store and bought him underwear. It probably cost less than R20 for a pack of 3 boy’s underwear. Growing Angels' First Project in 2009 . Collaboration with Black Motion I, on the oth...

My journey with fitness has been a roller-coaster. I’ve exercised for either emotional reasons or to reach a specific body goal. In tertiary, I wore a size 34 for the very first time in my life and that made me go from feeling confident to loathing my body. I knew that there were things I could do to change the way I looked, but that didn’t change my opinion of myself. I trained for 5 days a week and after a year, I reached my goal of going back to a size 30. However, my mental health was still not where it was supposed to be. I started working the following year and completely abandoned my healthy lifestyle, including what I was eating. A few years later, I was back to a size 34, bordering on size 36. I was completely uncomfortable in my own skin. Again, I created a very strenuous workout plan and lost all the excess weight in 6 weeks. But still, my mind was not okay and therefore, I gained all the weight back. September 2016 - November 2016 This year, 2019, I’m back again to...

In recent months, I’ve felt a deep sadness and empathy for parents as news unfolded about their children being involved in different situations and events that either injured them or took their lives. I’ve seen pictures and videos posted on social media of children in different situations that are quite insensitive and cruel, especially for a parent to witness. For example, pictures of young children (my guess, between the ages of 6 and 8 years old) lying on the street after the transport that was taking them to school was involved in an accident, with a caption saying that if your child uses transportation to go to school in this area please check on them. Or a video of young man being brutally murdered by a group of teenagers, in that situation I thought of both the perpetrators’ and the victim’s parents. How do you watch your son/daughter kill or get killed? I also felt for the parents of the young South African celebrity that was being abused on camera. Then there are cases that a...