My name is Bimbola. That’s what I liked to be called, I seem not to like surnames as I have noticed that I keep forgetting to add my surname even on bank tellers, but since you’ll be asking like most people do- I’m Bimbola, Bimbola Segun-Amao.
So I’ll write this column every Monday, what will I write about? Anything that crosses my mind! Love, books, religion, crimes, sex, places, people….anything. My mind isn’t specialized enough to write just one thing, I can’t start forming Relationship/Money/Life coach as I’m no expert, I’m just a ‘thinker’. You know how the breathe goes stale and offensive when the mouth has been shut up for a while, it may be safe to assume that the mind stinks when it’s locked up for long. Not speaking, not writing…the mind may stink for lack of expressions.
So I’ll do this every Monday that my mind may not stink, write this column and share my thoughts ‘aloud’ with you. I am a bit unconventional, sorry, scratch that, I’m very unconventional, feisty and free. Are you like me? Do you sometimes think so hard about different stuff till you are almost soliloquizing? I don’t think it’s bad to have conservations with one’s self but the society kinda frowns at it. Like, which of you moms would not hush your little child if you time to time walk in on her speaking to herself?
Society thinks only those going bunkers talk to themselves , I beg to disagree. Talking out loud to me (alone or with anyone) is vocalizing my inner thoughts.
Mental Health Experts says talking to one’s self has got great benefits. Imagine, if I consistently say to myself “I’m smart, I’m pretty, I’m courageous, I’m eloquent, I’m not a pushover, I can achieve whatever I set my heart to achieve… blab blab blab…isn’t that healthy? Some may say it’s positive affirmation, I say as long as it’s just me talking to I, it’s soliloquizing. Giving oneself a pep talk if down and beaten can’t be seen as going nuts, it’s just being your own coach and fan. When the heart is filled to the brim with cares or worries, anxiety or uncertainties, letting it all out may just be needed to stop the fuse from blowing.
Then, some ideas flash through one’s head time to time. The ones I’m able to capture eventually are the ones I say aloud or write down. I have found talking to one’s self to augment thinking. Thinking and vocalizing one’s thoughts makes reasoning a less-than- hard chore. Talk to yourself if you have to, but hey! if you are hearing voices in your head, you may surely need to be interjected by a psychiatrist.