One of the most fascinating things about life is how people strut around, confidently saying shit about shit they know nothing about. That’s exactly how these 10 pieces of “advice” came about and spread like wildfire.

It’s great to find work doing something you genuinely enjoy. But if you go into it thinking it’ll never feel like work, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment. It’s going to feel like work and you’re going to get exhausted at some point. Know this, before you find yourself digging up your grandfather so you can scream at his rotting corpse for lying to you.

No. You decide who family is. Family isn’t always by blood. Don’t let people off the hook for treating you like shit just because a potential offspring resulting from both of you would have webbed feet.

Let me tell you something. If you jump into the wrestling cage of holy matrimony without the cushion that is money to support you, your marriage will be the inspiration for ‘Marriage Story 2: Divorce Delight’.

Hear ye, hear ye! Entrepreneurship is hard as shit. Don’t let “Dinner with Jay-Z” Twitter deceive you. If you don’t have the mind for it, stay in your job and be earning your salary jeje.

Fuck that shit. When they go low, go subterranean.

Who do you think I am? Pocahontas? My heart is noisy as hell. I can’t hear shit.

Usually said in regards to romantic relationships.

To quote social media comedian, Lala Milan — in that video where she dresses up as Areola, Ariel the little mermaid’s lesser known cousin — “Niggas ain’t shit. On land AND in water!” The dating pool is tiny as hell and full of piranha disguised as goldfish. Beware.

If you subscribe to this ideology because you saw it on Twitter, you’re an idiot. Of course, you owe people shit. You owe people basic decency. Stop being a douche to everyone because some 13-year-old white girl said so.

Picture this.

You’re fighting for your life. Your hooded attacker has you pinned to the ground and is stabbing you repeatedly. As you lay in the street dying, you look up at your attacker and ask, “Why?!”. Your attacker removes his hood and reveals his identity. It’s Ted Bundy, and he quietly replies, “Because it makes me happy.”

Enough said.

A wise queen once said, “I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it”. If you see something that you want, GO FOR IT.

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