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LIFESTORY

B L I N K I N S P I R AT I O N

LIVE
A LIFE OF

PURPOSE
I
By Tikva Magadzi

did not intend my life's story to contain certain chapters
that life has been writing. There are things I wish I could
change about my life's story; there are choices I made that
led me astray, places I should not have gone to, things I
said and did that I could have avoided but happened
anyway. BUT GOD saw me through it all even though I was not
aware of it.

Life is not a playground.
My life was full of confusion, deception,
misery, pain, bitterness, anger and I was
a prisoner to an imaginary life, a world
I had created in my head.
I hide my confusion and deep
emptiness in fashion, parties, friends,
drugs, alcohol, and, and, and... I was on a
highway to nowhere, on a slippery road
of destruction. I needed direction,
approval and above all purpose.
I am Tikva Magadzi, 31yrs young
woman. Tikva is a Hebrew meaning
Hope. I had a name change in 2008
which resulted in a change of my
destiny. I'm originally from Limpopo,
Giyani. I came to Gauteng in 2001 to
study but ended up on the wrong path.
I was a drug addict. I was hooked on
crack cocaine, ecstasy, Thai-white,
weed, nicotine and alcohol.
I lived a phony life, pretended to be
someone that I was not and due to this
I was never at peace.

I put on a fake identity to almost all the
friends I had. I lied about my
background to fit in and to be
accepted, and it brought me much
torment.
There was a point in my life I was
surrounded with "celebrities" and I felt