I haven’t been posting in a while and I do apologize.

First I want to apologize if this post is triggering for anyone, if so please do speak to someone about it and don’t keep your feelings to yourself, speaking DOES help.

I’d like to express my views on everything happening in my country (South Africa) right now. Women are being raped and killed at insane rates and finally the women in South Africa have had enough. We need solutions. Women are the future of humanity, without a woman there can be no life on this planet, we birth life and nobody has the right to take life away.

It is so sad that it took this long for people to finally realize that this is a problem. I want to thank Uyinene because it is her story that opened the eyes of many, although it is sad that she had to brutally murdered for this. May her soul rest in eternal peace.

This problem is way bigger than we think and I’m convinced that these men who commit these horrible crimes have some serious mental issues because it is not normal. As a solution to this problem I think we need to do research on what is driving these men to do this and that will provide insight on how we can fix it. Simply telling men to stop is not going to help because clearly they won’t listen. The same way telling women to protect themselves to protect themselves doesn’t work, clearly. So in my opinion we need to find out what causes this behavior and fix the root of the problem.

Thank you for reading, stay safe, I love you. ❤

RIP Uyinene Mrwetyana. RIP Jesse Hess. RIP Leighandre Jegels. RIP Janika Mallo. RIP to all the other victims of this terrible crime.

Father; verb:

1. be the father of. “he fathered three children.”

“You were supposed to be the first male love of her yet she still searches for you everywhere” – Rupi Kaur (Milk & Honey).

This is a touchy subject for most people, fathers. Any man can make a child, its raising one that makes you a father. I never grew up with my father, neither did his 5 other children. All my life I’ve wanted to be a daddy’s girl so like many fatherless girls I always made excuses for my father not being part of my life. Him not being there for me has broken me more than anything else in this world and if it wasn’t for my super hero mom I would be a lost case. When my mom and step dad got married (and for a few years after they were married) I thought she’d made the biggest mistake of both our lives because from then on it wouldn’t be just the two of us. Now that I’m older I can see that it was God answering my prayers. God blessed me with my dad, he is the most patient man and he always goes out of his way to keep us all happy and keep the peace in the house. He takes my side over everyone else’s and I know I can count on him for anything.

So to my father, I forgive you. To my mother, thank you for your strength. To my step dad, thank you for accepting me. And most importantly to God, thank you for this answered prayer.

Finally a daddy’s girl.<3

Life is never constant and sometimes you win some sometimes you lose some. When you lose someone or something it may feel like the worst feeling in the world but there’s a reason for the ‘good’ in ‘goodbye’. If you look back on your life have you ever lost someone and later realised how happy you are without that person?

Last year I got accepted to the university of my dreams, but it was 990,2 km away from home. I had a choice to make, leave everything I was comfortable with behind and follow my dreams or stay home and attend a common varsity and probably end up unemployed after receiving my degree. Obviously I chose to follow my dreams but it didn’t come easy, after leaving home most of the friendships I thought would last a lifetime had ended. As painful as it was when I look back I realise that if I had stayed I would never have met my 4 current best friends who have my back through everything and have helped me grow so much in the past 3 months alone.

Life is strange but letting go helps you grow. I had to go through the pain of losing all my friends in order to gain the ones I have now. Leaving home was an investment into my future and I cannot wait to see how much I grow in the years to come.

Hey guys! I’m Kiara, a first year student at Rhodes University. I’m 18 years old and I graduated from high school last year (2018). Many people in my community do not get into a university so I am beyond grateful to God for blessing me with this opportunity. I am a God fearing young woman and my relationship with Jesus Christ is what has kept me through everything I have been through in my life.

I hope my blog will inspire young adults to further their education and to know that through Christ everything is possible.

In the following blogs I will give more of a background of my life and how I have coped with certain things. I will also do blogs where I will advise young adults on how to cope with life after high school. I will try to post at least once a week. Please comment what content you would like to see and on which day I should post.

Thank you for reading

Kiara.<3

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton