I think your kids are Dumb because you Don’t read . . . | The Sunday Selections

So essentially, paying for friends.

I had an extra active day on Twitter this week.

No, seriously. Not a hop out the spaceship into the world of X and mindlessly scroll the timeline real quick type visit… I’m talkin’ ACTIVE Active. Like it was Oeleven when the app is in its prime. Maybe I’ll do a think piece on this in this week’s paper, we’ll see.

Anyway,

I came across a viral tweet about how Run Clubs should be free. First of all, we all like… so, they not? And if you’re familiar with Twitter, you know how adding to the conversation n things go over there… Cause what you mean a RUN CLUB of folks running in a group together on public grounds ain’t FREE?!?! *crying laughing, confused face, side eye emoji*.

One account was like, “This is how I find out y’all pay to jog.” One of my replies is, “No but what really does stop a nuisance from just running behind with them *extreme laugh emoji*.

I never fully thought about how them people really pay to do that.

I get… community and accountability.

That still don’t change the fact that it’s hilarious.

Just for Context (cause you know, we always gotta have a real-life Grok state a fact): There are free Run Clubs that exist out there. The point is still the point. And it’s tickling my ribs.

Side Note: My resurging Twitter activity has kept up its pace beyond that one day since initially writing this entry. And, so, for that reason, a think piece on this is definitely in the works.

Delusion can get you far.

It’s not a lie if you make it come true.

delulu til it what?

*delicate palm up hand emoji* come tru truuu.

*cartwheel, sparkles emoji*

Also, James 2:14-26 of The Holy Bible. ❥

“Because I know how life is for all of us. It’s hard . . . Your concern doesn’t come off as care. It’s just oppressive weirdo.” *finger taps*

This isn’t a think piece about wypo taking AAVE and using it incorrectly, as Twitter puts it.

Apparently Justin Bieber has been in the headlines for a while now, well before this week’s play. And being that I’ve been extra active on Twitter this month, I couldn’t escape the latest viral thing. But that’s no excuse. I deliberately choose to invest in this matter.

It started with a headline I scrolled past on YouTube.

I remember the news page name but not what the title said—I just went back to look and see sumn about a text message fallout with a friend. Fast forward backward.

Instead of clocking on the video, I went straight to his Instagram page to see for myself.

Needless to say, I am now following his spam account, and I have nothing negative to say about what he got going on. The headline of this entry is from a Story he posted. And the transcription further into this entry is from the “clocking” clip that went viral.

One afternoon I indirectly tweeted, referring to the whole JB thing: “That man’s antics is an archetype of Gemini season. I don’t take his expressions for granted, lol. It’s clocking to me.”

SEE: Entry directly following this for further insight about self-expression in general.

“It’s already invasive to have to go thru your life’s journey so publicly. Then while midst a storm in front a mixed collective where 1 group knows exactly what they’re witnessing, the other who has not first-hand experience with what they see, and the other eager to pimp off it.” -a tweet par moi.

Yo, I just found out earlier this month that clock it is literal sign language for the word “clock” *loudly crying emoji 2x* ohmg ohmg *loudly crying emoji again* I cyaaan.

A Man Living His Life: I’m a dad. I’m a husband. You’re not getting it, it’s not clocking to you. It’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business, is it?
Harasser With Camera: We’re on the sidewalk, Justin.
A Man Living His Life: I don’t give a f**k if you’re on the sidewalk. I’m a human f****n being, you’re standing around my car… at The BEACH, you know what I’m saying. You don’t think I’m a real f****n guy, do you. You’re gonna take this video out of context, you’re gonna say I’m mad. I don’t know who the f**k paying you to provoke me, but I’m not the f****n one. Okay?—
Harasser With Camera: Nobody’s payin—
A Man Living His Life: —Stop provoking me and s**t.—
Harasser With Camera: Alrigh—
A Man Living His Life: I’m a real dad, a real husband, a real man.—
Harasser With Camera: Alright, Justin.
A Man Living His Life: —So don’t do this f****n s**t to me, ok?—
Harasser With Camera: Alright, cool.
A Man Living His Life: —I’m not to be f****d with. I don’t know who’s paying you to f**k with me, or provoke me, but I’m not the one. I don’t care that you’re on the sidewalk. I don’t care what kind of dirty work—what kinda nasty s**t you’re getting paid in the background to provoke me bro, but I’m not the f****n one. I’m really not the one. I don’t care that you’re on the sidewalk, bro. Clearly you’re here for an alternate agenda, why would you wanna be here to provoke me like this? This isn’t love.
Harasser With Camera: I’m not provoking, Justin.
A Man Living His Life: This isn’t love bro, this is weird bro. Y’all are on some real weird s**t. Literally.
Harasser With Camera: Alright, have a good night, Justin.
A Man Living His Life: Ok then, go then, have a good night somewhere else man forreal—
Harasser With Camera: Alright, cool.
A Man Living His Life: —cause I’m not gonna stand around here and let this happen. No f****n sir. No way. No how.
—video begins to conclude—

Source: the internet, I typed “you’re not getting it, it’s not clocking to you” on YouTube and found the extended version of the circulating clip. | The Internet, 2025

Let people freakin’ express themselves. Who cares long as they ain’t harming no one. There’s a healer behind the one expressing. There’s a healing in what’s being shared. Perspective is the problem and solution.

Gemini Season. Hey, twin.

Some healing that can’t be fixed through food can be tended to through a massage. Getchu one. Full body. Scalp to soles.

Yes, big head. Yo scalp need some blood flow release <3. That’s why you so cranky n can’t think straight. *wink*

This entry isn’t legal health advice btw. I am not your doctor.

In this age, the way our herbs, fruits and veggies are grown aren’t nurtured under conditions that allow it to be as nutrient-dense as it naturally is created to be. The soil, for instance, being that it’s stripped from a lot of essential vitamins and minerals that the human body needs to thrive at its best plays a huge factor in this issue.

That’s trash, however, we’re adapting and figuring it out as a collective. *rolls eyes*

Along with food, another key to sound health is physical touch—a for sure a healer (hugs, kisses, sex, etc).

When the body is touched a certain way… hitting specific points at various speeds, in different directions and at diverse levels of force… it allows for ~FLOW~ once triggered by touch/movement.

This right here encourages a manipulation and shift of energies within our body in a healing, reparative manner.

Just like when we purposely stress our body out by doing stuff like like cardio and weight resisting—these activities bring about their own unique results. The Theme Here: Movement.

Woooo… and STRETCHING? You know when pull that leg back like dat? *weary face emoji* Extending the muscles and rotating our joints in ways that immediately just feelohsogood is a healer in its own right as well. The Theme Here: Movement.

Speaking of which. Lemme take a stretch break right nie. Join me.

1, 2, 3…

Continuing.

Before I gave myself a massage last night, I ruminated on what the headline is saying.

“Gave myself a massage” sounds so wrong. As in, sad. Get somebody else to do it!

Anyway. I got to thinking.

We know that massage therapy is clearly beneficial, I just really had a deeper thought come about how pressure to the muscles is legit a form of exercise. Firmly pressing into parts of the body allows those muscles to move, which permits the movement of the blood/other fluids and overall getting stagnant energy moving well beneath the layers of our skin—even our bones gettin’ some action.

~FLOW~

“High school is fucking over, stop playing in it. It’s over. You left.”

Gary Vee: If you are a good person and you’re trying—truly trying, and not trying to hurt anybody, you’re fucking phenomenal.
Question: How do we eliminate that outside noise, sometimes, you know—
Gary Vee: By not fucking caring about other people’s opinions once and fucking for all. High school—high school is fucking over, stop playing in it. It’s over. You left.

Source: Gary Vaynerchuk Instagram Carousel, Keynote clip | Instagram, 2025

The way iguanas just post up, randomly fall from trees, and just roam about wherever they so choose in south Florida is sumn to get used to.

Cause what is that even about.

It’s their size.

Like do you wanna be big? Cause you’re already far from small. You’re not a squirrel bruh.

Little lizards… I’m kinda used to those *tired face emoji*. They already do it for me cause they move so fast literally just for sport *face palm, weary face emoji*.

Bruh, *clap* I *clap*knnnnow them things find their ways in some people homes somehow. OHMG.

It ain’t a gator, and—this ain’t about them right now.

But. They really do just be minding their business tho.

Iguanas energy gives off they the sheriffs of the town or sumn *laughing emoji* lol, forreal. <3

“I think your kids are dumb because you guys don’t read with them.”

“…And your kids aren’t picking up on social cues. You know when you were little, me and you, when we used to go out to eat with our parents or we used to get our hair done at the hair salon… we were forced to be in grown people business.”

Stay out of grown folk business, a common phrase an adult will say.

Yeah, only when you butt in. And That sentiment alone indirectly teaches a child to: Mind your own business. Speak when you’re spoken to. Don’t interject where you’re clearly not welcomed. And in scenarios when applicable, go in there with the other kids or something along those lines.

OH: and feel free to observe, just don’t share your corrective-subordinate-reinforcing input.”

How is this a teacher? Through OBSERVATION and Testing the laws of Cause & Effect in various situations and environments.

When it comes to public situations/fellowship-type conditions, however…

“…We were forced to constantly be in conversation with all the things around us, and that made us smarter. That made us more aware. That made us able to talk. That made us able to have conversations.”

All quoted expressions within this entry are from a new YouTube video by a woman named Kenya. The video is about the latest propaganda she’s not falling for.

“More propaganda I’m not falling for, is the idea that you guys’ kids are dumb because of COVID,” she says, introducing the subject matter of this portion of video.

Apparently there’s some notion going around that it’s because children were inside during the panorama that they’re behind and she simply brings up the fact that it’s the parents’ fault.

“Why aren’tcha kids catchinuHp.” *stunned face, crying laughing, pinch emoji*

“I think your kids are dumb because you guys don’t read with them. I think your kids are dumb because you guys let your kids sit at home and play video games all day.—” WHEN I TELL YOU… the waaaay I CAAAAACKLED *crying laughing emoji 3x*

She continues shedding light on the issue of children who can opt out of all the things that help us develop and grow when immersed in worlds outside of the one in front of them, i.e.: AirPods in ears and attention to the phones & tablets—in social situations specifically.

“Your kids are developing. And so, when they are at dinner, your kids do need to hear adults talk to each other. They do… THEY DO. Your kids need to hear adults talk to one another because! they’re going to be an adult one day. They’re going to see the way that adults interact and they’re going to have questions about things—they’re going to be curious. Your kids aren’t curious anymore.”

If you’re not familiar with As Told By Kenya, she has a beeeeeyouutifull gift of gab!! She’s the type where I can and will listen to her talk about things I don’t even care about and stay hooked throughout. I haven’t seen a video from her in a while, so when I saw her pop up on my feed I was like eeeeeeep! *hand over mouth giggle emoji* She’s someone I’ve been subscribed to for about 7 years or so. Check her out, tell her “The Sunday Selections written by Aleigha Nicole” sent you <3.

Source: As Told By Kenya, “weirdly specific propaganda im not falling for.” (28:21 – 30:19) | YouTube, 2025

Relationship and circumstance dictate every move, straight up.

Relationships and circumstances dictate every. single. dingle emotion we feel and every. brickle. fickle. piece of choice we make. Period.tuh.