#tayosays

[tayotellsthetruth]

J/K

I came here to talk about my feelings. I wanted to write a haiku, but I can’t contain you in a simple 5-7-5.

You’re bigger than words.

[tayotellsthetruth]

Resolutions 2014

Personal

Regain my spiritual connection 

Be (flawless and) FEARLESS

START BEING A BOSS

Stop saying "like" so much

Write more (begin working on book)

Read more

Make a routine and stick to it! 

Don't overcommit to things 

Manage time better 

Be more confident in self! 

Speak with more authority 

Relationships

Forget about the haters

Get rid of my frenemies 

Throw less shade

Make an effort to spend more time with people that actually matter

Make an effort to spend more time with myself 

Fall in love (first with myself, then with someone who loves me too)

Be more adult-like with my parents

Be less kid-like with my siblings

Health

Start eating healthy 

Find something active that I enjoy 

Work on getting the body I want (while in the mean time loving the body I have)

Become obsessed with flossing again

Use my new pore cleaner 

Education

Do well on the MCATs (study for the MCATs)

Get a 4.0 for the rest of the semesters at Pitt

Secure something for my gap year

Political

Start a revolution!

Develop myself politically 

Educate myself about important issues

Hang out with people that make an effort to educate themselves

Speak the TRUTH!

[tayotellsthetruth]

why is ur blog all feminist-y and raced centered all of a sudden? i didn't mind when u talked about poor people but now you talk about al this political stuff and its annoying. please stop.

Seriously? This blog is called “tayotellsthetruth”.

Our world is such that certain groups of people: women, minorities, non-cis, non-straight, and others labeled as “others” are oppressed by normative groups. I’m just trying to educate the world about this. I’m just trying to educate myself about this. I’m just trying to to tell the truth. If you don’t like what I have to say, you can unfollow. 

Also, I think it’s sad that you don’t realize that a lot of these issues and poverty are linked. Poverty is systemic! I would say that I’m sure you understand this concept, but since you seem to have a narrow view of race/ gender and the need to talk about these issues, then I won’t make any assumptions.

It’s people like you who don’t understand the reason to talk about certain “awkward” topics that make me mad! We can’t spend all of our lives skirting around the difficult issues. Without this sort of discourse, there can be no progress. 

xx

Tayotellsthetruth 

P.S. In the words of Miley Cyrus (queen of cultural appropriation), WE CAN’T STAHPPPPP

[tayotellsthetruth]

Don't put baby in a corner

Baby, 

There is no such thing as

 valuing yourself too much,

loving yourself too much,

or caring for yourself too much 

in a society that does not

value, love, or care

for you at all. 

[tayotellsthetruth]

Acknowledgement is the first step to being real.

Today someone told me that I should acknowledge my past relationships for what they are because at one point they were good (even though I tend to only remember/ focus on the bad). 

Another example of how nothing is all intrinsically good or bad. Not people. Not relationships.

Relationships are experiences that can be learned from, but if you fail to acknowledge them in the first place, they can only act as a history that you are doomed to repeat. 

xx

Tayo

[tayotellsthetruth]

Amor de lejos...

Amor de pendejos...felices los cuatro. 

[tayotellsthetruth]

Drug of choice: pure adrenaline

[tayotellsthetruth]

After everything I've been though in life, I am convinced that my heart is a vestigial structure--rendered useless through my evolution.

Omotayo Balogun