I thought about what my perfect comeback would be. I mean, we can鈥檛 exactly call it a comeback as I鈥檝e been absent for just about a week and a couple of days but trust me when I say that it feels like months since I was last here, doing what I鈥檝e loved to do for the past year now.... writing on this chain.
This past week of absence has been exhilarating for a lot of reasons. I felt like I needed to rest, first off. I know people say it鈥檚 no big deal and that we need to do things at our pace but everyone started the year with all these elaborate goals. And while I never said I was going to post every single day of the year, there was still a lot of pressure as I watched others forging strong with their goals.
However, while I was still contemplating what my next line of action would be and whether or not I could afford to keep myself on this tight string, exams made the choice for me. I found myself faced with these really important examinations and with my relocation to school and everything, I just couldn鈥檛. My preparations were intense and the exams in turn were gruesome, but I鈥檓 glad the preparation paid off. I mean I haven鈥檛 seen my results yet but I feel positive, that even with the few health challenges that came up, I was still able to give it my best shot.
In these past couple of weeks that I鈥檝e been somewhat inactive, I have encountered things. You know when you鈥檙e so holed up with one aspect of your life that you鈥檙e more or less completely shut out of the other things happening around you? That鈥檚 how I felt. Since I wasn鈥檛 shut in with my phone, typing away on keys and lost to the ongoing happenings in my environment, I got to see life, and people in particular, on a more in-depth scale.
I do hope to share these things with you because while my schooling activities this year, especially, would take up most of my time, somehow, I鈥檇 like to think that I鈥檝e built some kind of bond with this chain so that no matter how long I leave and how not so active I am, I would always want to come back. And I guess this particular thought is enough to keep me going. I鈥檓 smiling as I write this because once again, while writing, I鈥檝e managed to motivate myself.
So I鈥檓 going to go a bit TMI here and say a few things. I mean, why not? While I realize that it鈥檚 not everything we can share here, no matter how much we want to(for the obvious reasons that it can come back to haunt us), I still feel that there are a few things we can say. To a great extent, I do take this place as my safe space so I鈥檒l guess I鈥檒l quit yapping and just get to it already.
For the first time in my life, I fixed full-on nails. The fact that I鈥檇 never fixed my nails was a personal choice of mine. Apart from the fact that I have moderately long nails and was content with simply painting them, I did and still do have a fear of the nails damaging my real ones. So, after my last exams, and in the spirit of trying new things, I got my nails fixed, cut it and everything to a length I felt I鈥檇 be comfortable with and I was pleased with the results at the end of the day.
Suffice it to say that I wasn鈥檛 prepared for what I faced. I couldn鈥檛 do just about anything. I hissed with frustration when I couldn鈥檛 don simple earrings on. When I got home to spend a few days with my family and my Mom announced the meal I would have for dinner, I couldn鈥檛 even help laughing. It was eba with soup( for anyone who isn鈥檛 conversant with this meal, you basically have to use your hands. All through).
Fast forward, I kind of got around it but the writing part seems to be more than I can handle. I mean I鈥檓 five times slower. Everyone is telling me that I鈥檒l get used to it and I hope for a lot of reasons I do because I鈥檝e felt like giving up thrice since I started writing. I know, I know.... why don鈥檛 I just take it off if it鈥檚 so bothersome? My answer is none other than the basic reason that if other ladies can do it, so can I. Lol
Anyway, I鈥檝e gotten to the very limit of my typing capacity and I feel like my thumbs would fall off at any minute. Till next time, lovelies. Fingers crossed for a successful ..... everything that I鈥檝e got planned for my future. Have a wonderful day.
