Every breath is a choice, every minute is a choice, and life gives us opportunities to make daily choices that we have to take responsibility for. Most days, we make a conscious effort to “Choose to be happy” amongst other things, but on other days, life happens and it can’t all be rosy but we can choose to make lemonades regardless. Sweet or sour, it’s still lemonade, right?

There are many misconceptions about fate and destiny in the lives of we human beings. These have led to unending questions, conjectures, debates and arguments. We live in the notion that we are victims of circumstances and our environment. Many believe that our experiences, harrowing or sweet, palatable or unpalatable, could only have been pre-determined,…

Toun Okewale Sonaiya is a media entrepreneur and broadcaster who has practised in Nigeria and London. Her WFM 91.7 is the first women-centric radio station in West Africa.