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HAPPY JULY. How are you doing♡
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Welcome to 2025, WattFam!
Outside this app, our worlds might be burning down, our bodies broken with illness, our jobs and academic pursuits weighing our minds, and our hearts burdened with much, but in this space, we will find help and hope. We will find love and light. We will find peace in sharing stories and having book friends.
So cheers to another 365 days!
I'm glad we get to do it together.
PS: I won't boast of many creative endeavours this year(still a stressed medical student), but I can say Chasing Reality is being rewritten and will be released this year.
Keep your eyes peeled for updates.
Love, Teeps.
Aang151Rron
@2000_AD no problem If you'd like to chat more I'm on Instagram as @_aangrron or @_ywwriters and discord as @aang_rron_01391
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@Aang151Rron I apologise for disappearing. I had to return to campus, and it was hectic settling in. I'm good. Decided not to stay down and try again. I'm learning it better to look forward and outwards than backwards and inwards. I do hope you get the proverb. It means it's better to move towards the future than hold on to tbe past and it's mistakes.
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@STARGIRLDUSTQUENN Hello. Thanks for the follow. It means a lot to me.
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We have a lot in common? That's a first.
Enlighten me.
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@STARGIRLDUSTQUENN Oh, Hi!
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@MideOfTheShadows Good to be back, dear!
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With the expectations of today's world and the ever-present voice of negativity in our heads, I think we all need this.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/371932145
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Hello
It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, on my end, a lot has happened that led me(and is still leading me) toward healing and wholesome recovery. It took a lot of words, praying, letting go, and opening up to get to this point.
After careful thinking and considering the world we live in today, I felt you might also need these words, so I wrapped them up in a book for you.
I hope you find healing in my latest work: Flowers In Due Season Vol. 1. 'Cause I wrote with you in mind. I leave you with this scripture:
Psalms 23:1-3 AMP
The Lord is your Shepherd [to feed, to guide, and to shield you], you shall not want. He lets you lie down in green pastures; He leads you beside the still and quiet waters. He refreshes and restores your soul (life); He leads you in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.
God can and will restore your soul from all the world has taken from it.
With love,
Toinpre.
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@2000_AD Here's the link to my new book Flowers In Due Season. https://www.wattpad.com/1457357262?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_published&wp_page=create_on_publish&wp_uname=2000_AD
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So... I've been working on a non-fiction. I won't tell you what it's about though, only that you'll love it.
It's in line with our theme for February–love, Valentine, and all that, but it goes a lottle further than that.
Anticipate!
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DECLINING YOUR 1ST EVER JOB; TRICKS AND TRUTHS.
Let me indulge you in a story today and I beg you not to laugh.
2020 was the year I realized I needed a job. My parents could still provide to the best of their ability and in normal circumstances it should be enough, but I wanted to ease their burden and there was a gnawing feeling that held me captive–not the love of money please, remove your mind from that scripture–forcing me to take my finance seriously, it took me months of discovering my skills, gifts, and talents.
I took some courses–all these people online that are using info-marketing to wound us; affiliate making, copywriting, Amazon KDP–that I eventually did not use, took classes, opened Upwork and Fiverr accounts, LinkedIn blocked me out and I don't even know why… but I did a lot that period, just to find out what I was supposed to do with myself.
It took me a year of living a merry-go-round life before I finally landed a possible job, through an outsourcer–someone who searches for jobs in your niche online, acts as the middleman, and gets a percentage of the pay. Why? Because I was still learning the ropes of freelancing from a mentor and had to be a medical student–the combo is not the nicest–and I was just grateful I was making progress, but my emphasis was the nature of my first job but in this day and age, I did something stupid; I declined the job. Then I declined the second one.
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@2000_AD Thank you for sharing your experience, and enlightenment, in this world we all live in today. You are not alone and there are others who see the same patterns you do. Stay strong!
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In whatever field or sphere of influence a believer is in, we must stop thinking we can do what everyone is doing, that we can take every offer, seal every deal, take every shot, or act like everyone else. Because we can't. We are in this world but not of it, remember? We cannot keep walking into our classes, offices, online workspace, or workshops like we are normal. I'm not saying be lazy and complacent, praying and making a ruckus when you are supposed to put your head down and work so you would be excellent. I don't endorse being lazy in any form.
Christians should rather be cautious and wise because the marketplace/world is out for blood, literally. It wants to sip you of every spiritual essence, turn you into a robot, make you lose alignment and vision, and wear you out by making you go against our core beliefs, rules, and ideologies. It wants to make us a zombie, bereft of God, when we finally retire; a people without grit and dogged belief, malleable yet impotent. They want to turn our wine back to water, and it is your duty as a Christian to fight this, unapologetically.
So I turned down my first job, and I turned down my second. I flopped my third(I was to write about good witchcraft. Is there anything like good witchcraft?! Madness, I tell you!) and over three years, I've turned down many jobs, or skimmed over; erotica, billionaire series, supernatural. I don't write them, I don't read them, for my safety and sanity, I give myself boundaries in my work. I'm not foolish, I know where the money is, but I've laid up God's word in my heart that I might not sin against him, and I hope you do the same too, because the times we are stepping into ain't funny. It’s either you know God for yourself or you don't.
And this concludes my very long post. Thank you for sticking with me through this long read. Do have a productive work week.