I welcome you to my blog. Sometimes when we are asked how our year has been so far, we tend to miss the little blessings and focus on the negative, no matter how small. We tend not to miss any detail as long as it has to do with the negative but miss details about the positive and disregard them because they are small, and what we want is bigger than what we have gotten so far. We tend to forget that when you put your little and small blessings together, you tend to see how far you have come, what you have survived, and how what you thought would be the end of you was only a stepping stone, and you are where you are today.
The year started as always, and I was full of hope, had my head filled with so many dreams and how good the year would be, had my goals written down, had so much I wanted to achieve in the year, and believed I could do it all. Like they always say, man proposes and God disposes. I had my plans and the path I wanted to take this year, but life happened and there was a turn of events. Only a few things out of the so many I had planned out went as planned or as imagined, while the others went in the opposite direction. Life teaches you lessons you did not even enrol for or ask for; it forces them down your throat.
So far so good. I cannot say the year was all bad, and I cannot say the year was all good; it was a mixture of both. I had good times and times where I laughed so hard until my belly hurt, and there were times where the feeling of sadness was overwhelming and I felt like I was about to lose my sanity, but in all, I am here today and will be ending the year stronger, better, and more experienced than I was and not in the same position I was last year. How I was referred to or addressed is not the same way I am being addressed, and that is growth.
This year I had what other people will call small wins, but when I put everything together, I come to realise that I have come very far in my journey of life. I graduated from college and was inducted into the Nigerian Society of Engineers and the Council for the Regulations of Engineering in Nigeria. All of these came with obstacles, but managing to cross them all is something actually worth celebrating. Despite my country's economic situation, I have been able to pay my every bill, feed properly and do all that is expected of me.
All I can say is that the year did not break me; instead, it made me because I am more experienced, stronger, more exposed and, like I said before, no longer where I used to be, so the year thus far being a mixture of the good and bad helped make me.
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