By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: It’s hard to find the one. By “The One”, I mean someone that is your soul mate. Someone that shares your passions; mind, body, heart and soul. By soul mate, I mean him who takes your breath away and breathes life into your days. The person whose body fits with yours like a puzzle and in […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: Let’s be friends. That statement was the start of a horror I wished to never experience even after you and I were done. I thought I could stomach being friends with you, after all, you hadn’t done anything bad. I just got tired of the numerous broken promises and halfhearted attempts to make it up to […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: I am not going to pretend to be unaffected by the break up. Sure it hurt. I had our whole future mapped out and when it all fell apart I was disappointed and shocked. The past few months I have been moving in a haze existing and yet nothing has been real. I am a little […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: Sorry isn't sorry. Just because you say sorry now doesn't wipe away all the tears I cried in trying to fix us. Just because you lost me now doesn't mean you should finally remember that this was all roses once and something you thought you wanted. Sorry could be the hardest word or the easiest. Sometimes […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: Somehow, you get past the drunken experiences and begin to open up to each other. Secretly you wonder if he meant the proposal. Could it really be as simple as being found when you felt like you would never find love? He carries your bag in public. Opens your drink and keeps doing little things that […]
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