If you are my contact on gchat or on whatsapp you may have seen my status read "like a duck" more than twice. Some have asked what I meant while others may have known or left themselves to their own wonderment. That's cool. Some might have read "if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck..." and possibly assumed it was a struggle status or something...possibly drama of the dude variety. Well there is none here, but I'm sure some of you reading are very familiar with the assumptions we make and false conclusions we've drawn from the limited information in a status! Admittedly, I am guilty of over thinking EVERYTHING except very few things. *raises hand* I did once read so much into a simple status update I pretty much stopped talking to the person for a whooooole day. I am a better person now lol! (ALTHOOOOUGH some [cowardly] people DO take to the status updates to send subliminal messages so to them I say "@ me bro"!)
Back to the topic at hand - ducks! Yes it is true that if it walks like a duck and quacks like one 9.9 times out of 9.99 it is one, but I'm here to talk about being calm and unruffled on the surface and paddling like hell under the surface like a duck. Being like this through whatever it is you may be going through. Whoever said adulthood was easy falsely advertised and and I want my money and my pre-teen years back! Whatever you do in everything you do, try to maintain for the sake of your sanity and self-preservation a sense of calm and control over things that come your way, make ripples, not splashes (see the ducky below), and once you've made it through then QUACK to announce your arrival/presence. Not too much though, that could be annoying and obnoxious.
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Back to the topic at hand - ducks! Yes it is true that if it walks like a duck and quacks like one 9.9 times out of 9.99 it is one, but I'm here to talk about being calm and unruffled on the surface and paddling like hell under the surface like a duck. Being like this through whatever it is you may be going through. Whoever said adulthood was easy falsely advertised and and I want my money and my pre-teen years back! Whatever you do in everything you do, try to maintain for the sake of your sanity and self-preservation a sense of calm and control over things that come your way, make ripples, not splashes (see the ducky below), and once you've made it through then QUACK to announce your arrival/presence. Not too much though, that could be annoying and obnoxious.
As long as you are in the water that is adult life you better keep paddling underneath if you want to get somewhere, but make it look good. Remember real G's move in silence like lasagna (or resign or gnat or sovereign). I'm in the water and please know I am paddling like hell underneath. When I stop, I'm not getting anywhere.
(mama duck and her ducklings at my grandparents house in Bulawayo)
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*@afropolitaine*
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