Time wears down everything.

It defaces, breaks, cracks, or mangles everything but one thing: water.

Water serves time.

It changes to whatever serves the times.

— Osasu Oviawe

The turbulence today was the type that makes you reflect on whether you’ve done enough to make heaven.

Even the air hostess stopped her announcement of “wear your seatbelts” halfway; she had to hold on for dear life.

The good thing about flights is that you must embrace the turbulence—fearfully or with wanton abandon—and wait for it to pass. Every other option is fatal.

– Osasu Oviawe

I have neither advice nor money for you.

I am using both for my own life, for a change.

What I do have to share is a listening ear.

So, drop your words, however heavy.

My heart has been doing some heavy lifting.

But remember, I have neither advice nor money for you.

– Osasu Oviawe

When intent aligns with actions, consequences are predictable.

What one finds in reality is an abundance of unpredictability.

Actions are a poor concealer of intent.

People know your true intent in spite of your actions, not because of your actions.

– Osasu Oviawe

When you hear an allegation about someone, the more sure you are that it cannot be true, the more likely it is.

But even if it is not true, the fact that it could be alleged means they have compromised aspects of themselves in ways that make people capable of false allegations get close enough to smear them.

Every allegation is a possibility or impossibility that has become probable. Instead of sweeping it under the carpet, take out the carpet for a shake-down.

The thing with carpets is that there is always dirt to remove by shaking them.

– Osasu Oviawe

Only one person really knows.

The sacrifices, the reflections, the struggles, the days that matter, the memories that sneak in a smile, the joys, the victories, the man in the light, the man who stands, the man who soars.

Only one person will ever know.

The hole, the darkness, the pain, the silence, the echoes, the tears, the bleeding, the loneliness, the nightmares, the trauma, the man after the lights go out, the man after the door is shut.

Only one person.

– Osasu Oviawe

The end of a February that so dragged out its days, you would have thought it was January.

– Osasu Oviawe

The beauty of mastering any game is that you know how each move plays out; even your own.

But you play anyway, because unlike the guy on the other side of the table, you can wait for things to play out; they can’t.

So, while time is on your side, time is running out on the other side. Mistakes fill the spaces where time runs out.

You don’t even have to play your best hand; you just have to stay in the game long enough, and you will win.

– Osasu Oviawe

They will all be fine, and if they are not, it is part of their training.

Quit being the hero. You’re only nurturing entitlement.

Those who came through for you did not have to keep doing so for long.

Stop digging for more to give. Go where you can share instead. Give and get.

– Osasu Oviawe

People who work hard are just as surprised when they win as those who don’t.

People who work hard are more devastated when they lose than those who don’t.

Working hard does not guarantee winning; it just makes losing suck more.

Working hard is staking your all on a bet that you will win. The upside is as high as the downside is low.

But nothing worth doing requires less.

– Osasu Oviawe