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Everyone has battles they fight behind the scenes—challenges unseen to the world.

‘All lizards lie on their stomachs, making it difficult to know which one has a stomach ache.’ This Yoruba proverb is a beautiful, succinct reminder that appearances often mask reality.

As we scroll through our feeds, seeing snapshots of perfection, let’s pause and remember this wisdom. Everyone presents their best selves to the world, but beneath the surface, there may be struggles we can’t see.

Let’s extend kindness, understanding, and support to each other, acknowledging that we’re all in this together, even if our challenges are different. 💕

What’s your favourite African Proverb?

DON'T DIE WITH YOUR DEAD.

Did you know that when you cry for your dead, you cry for you and not them?

You cry because you “lost them”, because you don’t HAVE THEM by your side. You think it all ends in death. And you think they are NOT there anymore.

So if you’re dead no more, where are they?

Yes they have left, or they are now somewhere else, is that place better than this?

Yes, definitely that place is better than this; so Why do you suffer for their departure?

When you have finished accepting that they are no longer "NOT here", but they are still in another place even better than this, for they’re where they are no longer sick, or suffering.

Then you'll stop mourning them and you'll get them back in memory so they keep accompanying you with the joy of all that you've lived.

If you truly loved them LOVE them AGAIN and this time with greater strength, with greater purity, with greater delivery.

Today, there will be no more reproach of any kind.

Only LOVE, will be the essence between you, between us, between them.

I respect your pain, and the way you express it. I know you cry and you will cry without comfort.

But .. Today I say to you:
Don't die with your dead.

Remember we are only seeing one side of the coin (death).

We are not looking the other way; we are not seeing the wonderful place of light where they stand.

What if we start seeing “death” as a Second Birth?

Second Birth we ALL will go through.

Don't die with your dead, honor them by living your life as they would have wanted you to.

Let them transcend.

And you keep living.

~Andrew Mclaren
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