My own words

Heres a story with a character than has been on my mind for weeks now. Im just releasing it. I'll see where it takes me. PS Im not a writer.

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Smiling thinking,thinking really hard.
I am the lucky one,yes I am.
Out of all people. Me. Its me he chose.
To be his one,above all else.

It scares me sometimes,sometimes it worries me
Because I cant be selfish. I have him to think about
To worry about. And now I am worried.

I'll admit to some jelously,
Which woman woudnt be jelous of him? He is amazing!!
But I got that in check,and i'm still worried.

U made feel loved and lucky. U're the one
Please dont make me feel otherwise
U've been doing a great job so far
Dont make me doubt U
U. The one. The lucky one.

A male patient is lying in bed in the hospital,

wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose,

still heavily sedated from a difficult four hour surgical procedure

A young student nurse appears to give him a partial sponge bath.

Nurse,' he mumbles, from behind the mask 'Are my testicles black?'

Embarrassed, the young nurse replies 'I don't know, Sir.

I'm only here to wash your upper body.'

He struggles to ask again,

'Nurse, are my testicles black?'

Concerned that he may elevate his vitals from worry about his testicles,

she overcomes her embarrassment and sheepishly pulls back the covers.

She raises his gown, holds his penis in one hand and his testicles in the other,

lifting and moving them around and around gently.

Then, she takes a close look and says, 'No sir, they aren't and I assure you,

there's nothing wrong with them, Sir !!'

The man pulls off his oxygen mask,

smiles at her and says very slowly,

'Thank you very much.

That was wonderful, but listen very, very closely.....
' A r e - m y - t e s t - r e s u l t s - b a c k ?'

Today I'm craving U. Ur hug. Ur body. Ur warmth. Ur words . Ur essence. Ndikhumbula wena wedwa. U know who U r......

In the second half of the nineteenth century, after more than four centuries of contact, the European powers finally laid claim to virtually all of Africa. Parts of the continent had been "explored," but now representatives of European governments and rulers arrived to create or expand African spheres of influence for their patrons. Competition was intense. Spheres of influence began to crowd each other. It was time for negotiation, and in late 1884 a conference was convened in Berlin to sort things out. This conference laid the groundwork for the now familiar politico-geographical map of Africa.

In November 1884, the imperial chancellor and architect of the German Empire, Otto von Bismarck, convened a conference of 14 states (including the United States) to settle the political partitioning of Africa. Bismarck wanted not only to expand German spheres of influence in Africa but also to play off Germany's colonial rivals against one another to the Germans' advantage. Of these fourteen nations, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Portugal were the major players in the conference, controlling most of colonial Africa at the time.

The Berlin Conference was Africa's undoing in more ways than one. The colonial powers superimposed their domains on the African Continent. By the time Africa regained its independence after the late 1950s, the realm had acquired a legacy of political fragmentation that could neither be eliminated nor made to operate satisfactorily. The African politico-geographical map is thus a permanent liability that resulted from the three months of ignorant, greedy acquisitiveness during a period when Europe's search for minerals and markets had become insatiable.

The French dominated most of West Africa, and the British East and Southern Africa. The Belgians acquired the vast territory that became The Congo. The Germans held four colonies, one in each of the realm's regions. The Portuguese held a small colony in West Africa and two large ones in Southern Africa.

After colonial rule was firmly established in Africa, the only change in possessions came after World War I. Germany's four colonies were placed under the League of Nations, which established a mandate system for other colonizers to administer the territories.

The Congo Free State, conceived as a "neutral" zone to be run by an international association in the interest of bringing science, civilization, and Christianity to the indigenes, received the Berlin Conference's blessings. Belgium's King Leopold II soon took control, reaping fabulous personal profits through the sale of land and development rights. Scandalously, little was reinvested in schools.

Leopoldt,the man who exploited Congo's resources and contributed to up to 10 million deaths left Congo in poverty. He exploited the raw materials and left the people with nothing.