My Mind Speaks....

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 HourGlass with Mbofho
My Mind speaks…
For the longest time I have wanted to create a platform where I can share my thoughts, Ideas and life experiences with those around me. Everyone close to me will attest that I really enjoy telling tales about my childhood and lessons learned, about my life as a teenager and how I transitioned to be the person I am right now. However I also battled with finding the balance between creating a platform to communicate my ideas and summaries about life in general and remaining the very private person that I am. The thought of putting bluntly what goes on in my head out in the public in this manner actually gives me a little bit of anxiety and quite frankly makes me feel like I am lame for taking my private daily thoughts out to be judged by all of you lol But the devil is a liar… So here we are!!

As already alluded to above HourGlass is a platform I will be using to let my mind speak about my life experiences ,experiences of those close to me ,Ideas on how to make the world a better place ,maybe some shade on articles I have read and give reviews of videos and everything in between. In everything discussed in this platform my hope is that faith love and hope will prevail and as Hulisani likes to put it “May everyone be able to discover their purpose, harness its power and see the impact it brings to society”

 I have come to realize that my mind speaks…. And it actually loves speaking even when I am lazy to speak, a lot goes on in this head. The HourGlass concept actually came from an epiphany I had on one such day when I was very lazy to speak, I found myself noticing how my mind was still speaking a lot of truths and also “jutting” myself. It was like my life was flashing inside an hourglass, records of different times of my life kept going through my head like sand through the hourglass (see what I did there lol).

One thing I know for sure is that I have an overactive imagination, this mind can create quite of lot of melodramatic scenarios to keep myself entertained for the whole lockdown period. I tested this theory recently at the beginning of this lockdown period when I all the sudden realized I was food pregnant. This mind just could not let it be exactly what it was. In my mind, I was 20 weeks pregnant from a Latin American I met in my Brazil trip last November. This dream was so detailed to a point where of course I was not longer in contact with my holiday Latin American because I did not know how to explain the pregnancy to him. That day my phone ran like it nobody's business. It’s funny just thinking about it now. My friends were not pleased with me after this lol.

Hey guys, I am definitely not a writer but more of a storyteller so please bear with me. I will be posting on HourGlass with Mbofho every Friday. This will be interactive conversations and will not always be fully written by me. I will allow views on different topic from other people, maybe write a conclusion or something. Often times I hear that people do not like people who talk about themselves all the time lol I promise to not be that person here. I also know from experience that nobody likes a “Know-it-all” so mine is to be Honest, Humble and relatable. After all that is how we will be able to impact each other’s lives.

I look forward to this journey. My mind speaks….

HourGlass with Mbofho

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  1. Mbofho Ravhanga8 May 2020 at 09:10

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    1. Unknown8 May 2020 at 09:59

      Still mad at you for that pregnancy thing Lol.🤣.... But I look forward to the mystery of your 'Speaking Mind'. If it's as chatty as you, then this journey will be a great one.

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  2. Sebotsana8 May 2020 at 09:11

    We look foward too💃

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  3. Unknown8 May 2020 at 09:13

    🙌 thank U for speaking your mind.

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  4. PortiaM8 May 2020 at 09:21

    So proud of you ��������Very impressed ✍✍We look forward to more hour fridays with you well done������

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  5. Carin8 May 2020 at 09:34

    I'm very proud of you and look forward to this journey we are about to take. Hope it will give us the impact you would want to make.

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  6. Izinga Life Coaching8 May 2020 at 09:45

    Looking forward to the stories 💃

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  7. Unknown8 May 2020 at 09:48

    Bring it on. Can't wait for next week Friday.

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  8. Iketleng8 May 2020 at 11:29

    Super excited!! ����this is gonna be great!

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  9. Samantha Oor8 May 2020 at 12:12

    I'm excited and super happy that you're finally putting what your mind speaks into words. You're an excellent writer and I think you're going to touch many hearts.��

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  10. Sanele 8 May 2020 at 12:46

    Aaaah, so it goes🌻. Here's to Friday's never being the same again,super excited and looking foward to reading your "mind" ☺️.

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  11. Prince Mahlatse Makhubedu8 May 2020 at 20:01

    This will be interesting going forward. The pregnancy story, what's really happening there?��

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  12. Sindiswa8 May 2020 at 23:47

    M not much of a reader but the minute I started curiosity led me through all the paragraphs n I can say I like wat I read plus I like how u don't use deep confusing English and I can't wait for the #nexthourglasswithmbofhs
    Ps. I saw right through dat foodbump😄

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  13. Unknown9 May 2020 at 13:51

    Next week should be dedicated to expanding the story about the phantom pregnancy

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