Tag: Friends

True friends and friendship!

Explanation: Whenever we think of selfless love or service in our day to day life, the first person that comes to our mind is our mother. A mother is someone who gives out endless love and asks nothing in return. She only wishes the best for her children and keeps blessing them forever till she...

Why your thin friends don???t get fat and your fat friends don???t stay thin???

A few weeks ago, with a heavy heart and all the enthusiasm of… well, actually, with no enthusiasm at all, I went and joined my local Slimming World group. Again. My weight has been creeping up and I realised that I was getting a bit out of breath while doing energetic things like be...

My ???Friends with Benefits Relationship??? with Boxing.

Hey! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Karol, a 3rd year Immunology student documenting his journey. I have been part of my university's boxing club for three semesters now. I am still not very good. I walked into the Annual General Meeting thinking I was jus...

Kanye West and his new white supremacist friends

Ifwhite supremacists were to co-sign any rapper, I suppose it would be Kanye West. On Saturday, an antisemitic and white supremacist group hung a banner above the 405 freeway in Los Angeles that read: “Kanye is right about the Jews.” Another banner cited Rev. 3:8, which r...

I Make My White Friends Angry

On June 2, 2020 I posted a series of videos on Instagram where I spoke my truth. That day, and a day or two before, many people were posting black squares in order to “Amplify Black Voices.” There were hash-tags like, “I’m listening,” “Time to listen and lear...

Navigating the Conversation: Should I Call Out My Racist Friends?

In today’s diverse and interconnected world, addressing racism is a responsibility that falls on individuals as much as on society at large. This paper explores the complexities and considerations surrounding the decision to call out racist behavior among friends. As we navigate this challengi...