I welcome you to my blog. How time flies. It still feels like yesterday when we were celebrating the year 2024 that has just started. Funny how in a few weeks we will be celebrating the end of the year 2024 as we usher in a new year to exploit, to do great and better things. So far, the year 2024 has not really been a smooth sail; there have been storms, joy, sadness, and all, but I am glad to have been able to come out of everything fighting. Sometimes we feel like we are not making enough progress, but when we look back or try to compare where we were years ago and where we are today, we realize that indeed we are really giving it our all.
Trust me, if it were possible, I know we all would want to skip the sad days, the days where we struggled, and just get to the days where everything is good and rosy, the days where we don't really have to do much to get everything we want, but without the days where you had to struggle or the sad days, the story is incomplete. Life is in stages; every stage really matters, no matter how bad or uncomfortable we feel about the stage; without that stage, you cannot move on to the next stage. Every stage is important, the lessons, and the push to the next can only come when you do all that is expected of you in your current stage.
Everyone has dreams; no one wants to be in the same position for ever or even for long. Even if you don't want to make progress for yourself, you have to make progress because of those that love you and those that look up to you. We all want the sad days to pass or, if possible, never exist, but since it is not possible to make the sad days cease to exist, all we have to do is survive through it and, in the future, look back at it and cheer ourselves. Currently looking at my past and where I am today, trust me, I can say I have indeed come a long way. I am not where I want to be yet, but trust me, I have really achieved quite a lot of things and am doing a lot of things for myself and my family. Trust me, there are lots and lots of things I would like to share with my younger self, things that would have stopped me from making certain mistakes and encouraged myself to make decisions that would have changed my life for good.
Dear me,
I hope you are fine. You were so worried about the future and what it holds for us. I just want to let you know that I have only seen a tip of the iceberg, and I can assure you that it is great. The journey has not been all good, but like you already know, there are bad days and good days, but the only thing is that we pray and hope for more good days than bad days. You should have taken those drum lessons seriously and stopped halfway; maybe today I would have been proud to call myself a drummer, but you chose to play football instead. Funny how I no longer play the fame that took such an opportunity away from me.
I am really proud of how hard you worked for our future and to support mom and dad back then; your hard work really paid off. I am where I am today because of the foundation you laid, and I am really grateful, as for many of the dreams you had, I have been able to achieve a few and am currently working on others. In a few months we will be engineers like you once thought of and probably go for a paramedical course in a second degree like you always dreamt of. This is a letter to just tell you how proud I am. You did all you did; you made some mistakes out of ignorance; some I have been able to correct, but some I have to live with.
