Davingson (@davingson) - Honouree

Davingson

Lagos

sport lover and fashion

about 21 hours ago

Everything I Needed to Hear I Already Knew, I Just Did Not Want to Listen There was a period where i went to several different people with the same situation, presenting it differently each time, angling the inform

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2 days ago

There Are People in Your Life Right Now You Will Miss Terribly One Day My grandmother called me last month and talked for forty five minutes about almost nothing. Old stories i had heard before, observations abo

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3 days ago

Gratitude Is Not Toxic Positivity, It Is a Practice That Actually Works I resisted the gratitude conversation for a long time. It felt too easy. Too much like the advice that comes at the end of difficult convers

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4 days ago

The Day I Chose Myself Was the Day Things Actually Started Changing There was a decision point i arrived at in my late twenties that i had been approaching for a long time without wanting to admit it. Everyth

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5 days ago

Some of the Heaviest Things I Ever Carried Were Not Even Mine There is anxiety that does not belong to you that you can pick up so gradually you do not notice you are carrying it. Parents who worried co

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7 days ago

I Stopped Apologising for Taking Up Space I used to make myself smaller in rooms. Not physically. Just in terms of presence. Opinions offered tentatively, like i was asking permissio

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8 days ago

Most Arguments Are Not About What They Are Supposed to Be About My partner and i had an argument once about dishes. It went on far too long for something that was, on the surface, about dishes. It was no

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9 days ago

I Used to Be Afraid of Silence, Now I Protect It There was a time i could not sit in silence for more than a few minutes without reaching for something to fill it. Phone, music, television,

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10 days ago

Korean Hive Village

You Cannot Pour From Empty and I Learned That the Hard Way I have a natural tendency to show up for people. It is something i actually like about myself, the willingness to be there, to give time and

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11 days ago

The Older I Get the Smaller My Circle Gets and the Better I Feel About It At some point in my twenties i had a lot of people around. Big group chats, regular gatherings, the kind of social life that looked full fro

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12 days ago

I Stopped Chasing Happiness and Started Noticing It Was Already There For a long time happiness was somewhere slightly ahead of me. After the next thing. After the situation resolved or the goal landed or the r

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14 days ago

What You Tolerate Is What You Are Teaching People to Do to You There was a situation at work years back where someone consistently took credit for contributions i made. Not dramatically. Subtly enough th

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16 days ago

I Grew Up Thinking Vulnerability Was Weakness, It Cost Me More Than I Realised The message where i grew up was not subtle about this. Men did not cry in public. Problems got handled quietly. Needing help was something y

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17 days ago

The Advice You Give Others Is Usually the Advice You Need Most I have a habit i only noticed a few years ago. When a close friend comes to me with a problem, i often have clear thoughts. Patient perspect

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18 days ago

I Finally Admitted I Was Unhappy and Everything Started to Change For a long time i told myself i was fine. Not thriving exactly but fine. Functional. Getting through. I had things others did not have and i

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