Growing Up - A Different Path

Photo Credit: Mansur Gavriel

"It's not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better. It's not enough to be better if you have the ability to be great." - Unknown

It feels surreal writing this about myself. But it feels more so living it. It all feels like a dream, an awesome dream actually, but I'm yet to feel like this is a reality. So I've decided to acknowledge it as a dream and keep living and painting it like I would do a dream.

So, what is this thing keeping me in a dreamy state? I'm growing up! I'm gradually becoming the woman I have always dreamt of being. That's the best way I can explain this right now because, even through the times things went as planned or went wrong, I still felt like "Girl, wake up!"

So, it began some 2/3 years ago(can't remember exactly) when I had that strong urge to drop everything I was doing and start a company. Before this time, some 5 years ago, back in my third year into my Law program at the University, I had had this same feeling. But I tried pushing it aside. I even picked up other hobbies and interests to compensate whatever gave rise to that urge.

Did it work? I guess it did because I finished my program at the University. And, I enjoyed those new interests. So it was fine...until I graduated from the University. Then, like every of my colleague in University, I applied to go to Law School, but that 'urge' to do something else crept up again. This time, I used my stressful lecture schedules and reading plans to drown all of that.

By now, it was 2015, I had applied for the compulsory one-year service scheme(NYSC). I will forever be thankful for my service year. Though I was working with the Akwa Ibom State Government, I had a lot of spare time and I was able to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, research into what it would take for me to do that, and start saving for it.

And today, 2 months after my service(NYSC) year ended, I have done almost everything necessary to set up the company, opened my company, and we are having our first sales fair today. It sure does feel like a dream. A very beautiful one. Even through the stressful times, especially through those times, it never stopped being beautiful.

I know I'm gushing about it, but I'm so excited and nervous about it. And I want you to feel this too. So, if there's anything you want to do or be, just go ahead and do it. There will be times when you will want to just quit, DON'T!!! Just keep going! It will all be worth it. Now, I'm off to my fair. Say a prayer for me.
And have yourself a great day!💋


- The Lady

“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”

1 John 5:14-15