The proverb with African origin states, “It takes a village to raise a child,” meaning everyone in the community must interact with the children for these children to feel and grow secure, healthy, and whole.

So it also means everyone in the village or community contributes to the influences the children get exposed to while they are growing up. These influences may not necessarily be the “good” ones all the time. So long as there are lessons to be learned.

The body has the capacity to heal itself. As in the olden times, there were no advanced, futuristic practices applied to measure one’s health. The body was treated like a machine that performed well: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But with the advent of technology comes the upgrade in lifestyle. And while humanity is striving to ‘improve’ life on a daily basis with the goal of ‘making life easier’, humans are actually inadvertently introducing more harm to their already well-oiled machines - their bodies.

The world can be cruel sometimes, and most of the time, it is not easy to find someone that share your looks, your thoughts, and your feelings. However, we all should not worry about similar looks. We all would learn from a story about how friendship blooms despite the friends not having the same looks.