Drinking water
Pros:
It lubricates the joints
Forms saliva and mucus
Cushions the bodyâs sensitive tissues
Regulates body temperature
Boosts skin health
Flushes body waste
Maintains blood pressure
The airways need it
Your digestive system relies on it
Allows nutrients and minerals accessible
Prevents kidney damage
Boosts performance during exercise
General help with weight loss
Helps with a hangover
Maintains balance of body fluids
Helps to control calories
Energises muscles
Energy levels and brain function will suffer
Prevents or treats headaches
Relieves fatigue
Flushes our toxins
Boosts immune system
Prevents cramps and sprains
Puts you in a good mood
Saves money
Better mood, concentration, memory and pain tolerance
Prevents back pain
Helps with heart health
Prevents bad breath
Fights against some types of cancer
Helps keep alert
Protects cartilage
Relieves congestion
Boosts productivity
Prevents osteoporosis
Cons:
âOh no I have to pee againâ
Make sure you drink enough water. Donât be dumb đđ
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To the person reading this, I hope tonight treats you gently, and that tomorrow looks brighter
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Cotton -Preach
Looking at my Rolex its about that time
Dry clean my green gods cause they cotton line
A label connoisseur stay dressed to the nine
Iâm cash sighted for small change
Have to squint like blinds
We built this shit here
We built this
Ankles locked & whipped
Yea we built this shit
Shucking and a jiving and the cotton picking niggas
Back broke
Sun stroked
Neck stretched like a hard dick hanging from a rope
Like a human wind-chime
Kidnapped
Rapped
Separated for a life time
Slavery was real & it still is young bucks
The touch
The feel
Of cotton
Its the fabric of our lives
Its a new time
These a good years
Weâve arrived now
No oppression here
Look at us now
We are fashion plates
Trendsetters
Number one consumer
No one does it better
Ballin, hustlin, and robbin just to get this cheddar
Herded up like livestock
Living in high rise boxes
Bentley, Benzes line the project parking lot
Sing a song of bling bling All the rappers sing
Jigga Master Pdiddy
Money aint a thing
And we built this shit here
We built this
while the man taxes shake our poor ass down and fatten the pockets of the rich
Balancing budgets on our backs & still we cotton pick
Oh Yes
From store racks now instead of fields
& capitalism kills
America donât give a damn about the poor No not forreal
Steady cracking the whip on the oppressed masses as we work to death to pay the bills
No proper healthcare, No welfare, Prisons in abundance everywhere
As we build and build and build
Yea we built this shit We built this shit
Dressed down
Iced out
Still slaves
Thats it
The touch, The feel of cottonÂ
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Iâm trying to push back.
On social media, there are so many ways that people are characterized. To make it make sense, to turn into into data. Sometimes I get lost, so I turn externally for validation.
Not a good idea. đ
Iâve been on social media for the vast majority of my life (millennial hive). My validation, particularly as a young woman, lived and breathed based on the opinion of others. I want to do better now.
Particularly as I step into the scary world of entrepreneurship, I find myself scanning the horizon for an assessment of if Iâm doing this right. It is a bad habit that kicks into high gear when my ego tells me Iâm not good enough.
Iâm tying this all together. Community need + my owns desires and definitions, which will hopefully make sense at the end of the day.
âŚ.I have been deep lately. Which may be boring. But winter is the season for turning inwards. Iâm just trying to figure it out, yâall. I can only hope this journey is meaningful to someone, somewhere. Maybe that someone just has to be me. https://instagr.am/p/CJTlLvDDQJR/
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Remake of the white remake of Living Single âFriendsâ in the music video for Jay-Zâs âMoonlightâ directed by Alan Yang
Issa Rae⌠  Rachel
Tessa Thompson⌠  Monica
Tiffany Hadish⌠  Phoebe
Lel Rel Howery⌠  Joey
Lakeith Stanfield⌠  Chandler
Jerrod Carmichael⌠  Ross
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ââWhatâs going on between the Black man and the Black woman is that neither of us understands how white supremacy works. How it is messing with us as individuals. How it juggs with us when we try to get together to establish something that is called a family. We try to form this thing called family, looking at the magazines and reading how families are supposed to function. But when we canât duplicate that, frustrations build, which leads to the alienation that exists between Black men and Black women. All because we donât understand the system. We think weâre living in a democracy and since weâre Americans determining our own destinies, it must be that as individuals we are imperfect. But itâs hard to say that âI am the imperfect one,â so you start to blame the other person. So itâs the âno good Negro maleâ or the âno good Negro femaleâ and âwhat I need is a white woman.â Society plays that up. 'Right, Julia, you donât need a Black man. All you need is a white man to give you a job.â Or in the movies, 'Black man, you donât want a Sapphire, what you want is a white woman.â Or, 'Black man, it isnât cool being a man, what you really want is to be a womanââŚThe Black man knows that it is easier to be a Black woman than it is to be a Black man any day, because we are not a threat. The system understands that in order to oppress Black people it has to oppress the men. Let the woman do what they want, within limits. I donât mean that you are unoppressed as a Black woman, but you are not the prime target.â Frances Cress Welsingâ
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âI am black first. My sympathies are black, my allegiance is black, my whole objectives are black. I am not interested in being American, because America has never been interested in me.â
â Malcolm X
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in 2021 i wish you:
⢠good health
⢠a positive mindset
⢠success in abundance
⢠healthy relationships
⢠meaningful connection
⢠angels who guide you
⢠strength over depression
⢠peace in your body
⢠power before surrender
⢠discernment for good friends
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my brain at 3am: AND ANOTHER THING -
my wretched, exhausted body: please. I am begging you.
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