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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

 

This book taught me that no matter what, always focus on what it is YOU want for yourself and for your spirit. Not in a super selfish and manipulative way; but in a healthy way. In way that’ll keep you mentally comfortable and at peace with yourself. 

Even in the mist of being chastised by others with fragile egos and insecurities, who disagree with your choices; you know that you can stand firm in your beliefs, stay true, and HONEST with yourself. It’s okay to be the villain in someone else’s story, people are too comfortable in their victimhood and sometimes you have to leave them there. 

Feyi knew she wasn’t happy with Milan and she did something about it, instead of stringing him along. Feyi knew she didn’t want anything deep with Nasir and communicated that consistently. And he kept insisting “we’re just friends” over and over, but really was trying to “good guy” his way out of the friend zone. Nasir was the manipulative one here. Sure he is a right to be hurt, but he doesn’t have the right to be disrespectful, especially when Feyi communicated every step of the way. Him blowing up like that was way out of line and immediately jumping to conclusions showed me exactly where his head was at when it came to Feyi. 

It was messy, but Feyi navigated the situation very well.