No Easy Answers

It's been a challenging year for me both personally and professionally. I have learnt more about myself in the last 12 months than in my entire life. I am about to take a major leap in my professional life to pursue my dreams. I have been making a few do-or-die decisions lately. This is born of my realisation that I'm not guaranteed a next time, or a soon or any kind of future. My future is now- in this very moment. This realisation is both liberating and intimidating I should say. I have a million and one dreams. Ok. Minus one because I finally fulfilled this one of having a blog. So I have a million dreams which I'm starting today already to achieve. 2015 will not make me a better person. It will not make me braver. I will do that by myself. So whatever I believe I can achieve in the new year, I can achieve today because the common denominator, me, hasn't changed. So I'm walking into 2015 differently to how I walked into 2014- armed with the knowledge that...

I find solace in music. Much like a lot of other people do. I lose and find myself in music. It is perhaps the best part of who I am. My taste varies but one of the following two things must be present to guarantee my enjoyment: 1. Authentically African 2. Beyonce I enjoy music so much that I often get emotionally attached to musicians. Theirs is a job I doubt I would ever try due to firstly, an appalling lack of talent and secondly due to the sheer BRAVERY it must take to follow such a path. I mean most career paths follow a particular formula or pattern to reach success and often one's success is determined by their own input. I don't think the same process exists when you are a musician, I believe that their success (well, too much of it) is determined by other people. From record label execs to the public, a lot of a musician's success is determined by external factors. To put bread on the table through pouring your guts out on a beat and melody then have people ...

Me at my favourite place in Bloemfontein- Naval Hill Hi Welcome to my whirlwind world. Here nothing ever happens smoothly or easily. I suppose you believe this is cynical and negative however you are incorrect. This is a fact. I am turning 23 next Friday and as with other birthdays I will be surrounded by the people my heart guards jealously, my family. The perks of being born on a public holiday! I will be by the beach and we will be happy and sun-burnt! I love that thought. But that is not how I'm feeling today, however that's a story for another day. For now let me welcome you to my life. Here I'll chronicle my experiences without compromising anyone's identity (as far as I can or the law restricts me). I am a simple girl living a simple life in a complicated way. It's my nature! If you know any way to cure this, heal me I beg! I'd like to thank   Titilope's TedX Talk "Speaking Into The Void" for giving me the kick I needed to do...