Time Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-Ojibara

Is it possible to walk in your own shoes and feel the feet of another as they walk in theirs? How can one look through a window into another's world yet stand in their world before a window? Empathy is not to become as, but to be with. What could that look like?

We often compensate for something, with something. We make up for what may be deficits, missing bits in certain areas of our lives with what we think can make for them. It sounds reasonable and indeed the right thing to do in our goals for growth. The question then is, what are we compensating for? With what? And Oh, the girl on Wannabe Street? She's got some story to tell. Let's just say, she learned some lessons on the streets of Wannabees, that sight does indeed goes before a fall!

When you look in the mirror, who do you see? Do you believe everything you are told about you? Who has the power to measure your worth? Decide the value of your humanity? Is it possible that you might be your own betrayer? Or is it possible to be a BeLiver in, of your own life?

Marriage is a partnership, but what is a partnership in marriage? Are there universal values that guide our relationships or each couple decides for themselves what works, when to walk, if things no longer work? What's a Love Bank? When do we deposit, make withdrawals from our Love Bank?

How often do we find ourselves going back in time, wishing we could change a, the story? Times when events in our past hinders our present because we cannot stop reliving them? We cannot change the past...or can we?

'No', one of the hardest words to give and or receive. What does it mean to say No? How can saying, not saying one word stress one and the same word is what saves one from stress?

Is it righteous conceit or rightful claim? To see oneself in a position of power and place of honor and to live accordingly, in the role and responsibilities conferred with such a title. ***Apologies for some audio disturbance in the recording.

Roads are often used as metaphor for the paths we walk on, the paths we pass through life. We may expect the rough roads to be the most trying ones to trek, ride on, but have we thought about how the smooth roads we travel on, can be the ones with the greatest trials for us? And when we travel on the roads of life, do we ever stop to see?

'Young People'; they seem like different species from another dimension. We can be exasperated, excited, energized, expectant, elevated about, towards, for them, experience a whole range of emotions when we deal with them and or issues related to them. Yet do we, are we engaging with them from places of assumptions and judgement that limit them inadvertently or discriminate against them, damaging their development, systemically disempowering them, dimming their lights with shadows of stereotypes and unjust generalizations? Our young ones are diamonds, do we see their sparkles of light? Do they?

We throw things out when they are no longer of use, sometimes we may fix what is broken in them. Do we do the same with people? Replace? 'Repair'? Where does authority stop, where does autonomy start over, between, in our relationships with each, with one another? We may help with good intentions, but are good intentions enough to help?