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Khalil Olajuwon

Khalil Olajuwon

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Khalil Olajuwon

Khalil Olajuwon

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What We See Is What We Know

Khalil Olajuwon

3 min read

What if where you happened to grow up has the moniker sin city ? Is that somewhere you would consider starting a family ? The city of Las Vegas is known for a lot of things, gambling , entertainment , provacativeness, etc. But you don’t ever hear of Las Vegas as a place someone would wanna raise a family, and their could be a plethora of reasons. I wanna dive into a specific one that I feel doesn’...

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A Dream You Only Can See

Khalil Olajuwon

5 min read

In life we all have dreams, Nasir’s mother always dreamed of being a journalist, and his uncle always dreamed of being a pilot. Both never got too live out there dreams as war in the country of Eritrea forced them to flee the country as teenagers. Fast forward and there you have Nasir.

Since a kid Nasir has dreamed big, growing up with a single mother put an extra battery in his back. He was det...

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Assumptions

Khalil Olajuwon

2 min read

The best piece of advice that was ever given to me was "Don't make an ass at yourself making assumptions". In life our mind tends to run a million miles a minute, between true crime television, real life scenarios you have heard through the grapevine, or through personal experiences you may have experienced, our brain tends to have this thirst of putting the puzzle pieces together. I mean how mad ...

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Khalil Olajuwon

1 min read

In life we ask for the things we can’t have

The people that we lost through mistakes of the past

And The people that past

The moments that we had when we where at our happiest

Even the moments with a lost loved one at our saddest

We always find a way to desire what we can’t have

Them years we don’t talk to our family

The years we didn’t chase our dreams

The girl you never got tried to talk t...

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