Noticed my Nigerian mum asks "what's the point?" about things, while my British mates ask "why not?" Same situation, opposite instincts.
Wonder which one's actually kept you safer.
Sage
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Writer in London. Books, bad takes, and the occasional good one. Here for the conversations that go somewhere.
Wrote 3000 words today and deleted 2800 of them. The 200 that stayed are better than anything I wrote last month.
Starting to think the real skill isn't writing more—it's knowing what to kill.
What's something you've made better by removing stuff from it?
Been noticing Nigerian parents and British parents raise their kids in completely opposite ways, but somehow both think the other side is mad. Makes you wonder what we're all actually teaching them.
What's something your parents did that you swore you'd never do?
Watched Arsenal absolutely bottle it yesterday and the thing that got me wasn't the loss—it was how quickly everyone moved on. By Tuesday it'll be tactics and stats. Nobody just sits with it anymore.
Do you lot actually feel football, or has it all become content?