The year wasn't bad at all: REFLECTING ON THE EXPERIENCES OF 2021
(hello to everyone in the house. It's a privilege to witness the last day of the year. It's not been easy at all. Holding unto life despite the hurdles and challenges that life carries. To a larger extent, it's been a difficult year, owing to the issue of a global pandemic, economic recession, insecurity, inflation, and many other negative happenings in the world at large and in my country specifically. Looking back, it's evident that many have been victims of these things but the mere fact that we are all here is enough to be thankful for.
Reflecting on my life the past two years ago, I'm convinced that I'm making headway towards success. While so many people might see a strangulated life, I see the potential and inept transition from the old me to the envisaged life I dreamt of. With this, I know that my hope and expectations for the years to come will surely come to fruition. Hence It's too late to give up now.
(As often said that life itself is an experience, therefore I'm sharing with everyone the experiences that this year has led me through.
In 2021, I realized that you cannot do the same thing and expect different results. In my previous years, I have been wallowing in the web of a teeny-weeny monthly pay which couldn't take care of my humongous bills. At the end of every month, I will be indebted. I was living a proverbial life of a peon and his master. It was devastating and unbearable. Hence I decided to break fort and do something different in 2021 which has drastically changed my financial fortunes.
**No excuse is worth it at any point in life. **I have learned that the world does not pay attention to excuses. What they want are the results. At a point In my life, I have been living on excuses as to why I am unable to do this and that, yet nobody listened. Then I realized that no excuse is tenable enough to why one should be a failure. The day I stopped dishing excuses was the day my life had a new beginning.
I learned that information is power. The greatest harm that can happen to a person is to be left in the dark. Information rules the world. This had opened my eyes to realize that the difference between a person making headway and a redundant person is information. For example, I didn't get to know about the @hive platform until @uyobong introduced me to it, and it's been amazing which I wished I had known before now.
**Money is not everything. **Another tremendous lesson I have learned this year is that money is not everything but a healthy relationship is. I have realized that things money can buy, relationships can as well pay for it. There is an extent that money cannot take you through but having people in place ushers a smooth process to getting what you want. It was through a healthy relationship that I got my first tricycle. I did not ask for it, but it just came as a gift from someone.
2021 has taught me that diligence in responsibility is not severed from success. Anything you do with all your heart and might achieve much success. I was diligent in my little business though, it was inconsequential at the beginning but now it is making headway.
Fear is the greatest enemy to man. In 2019, I was so afraid of the unknown. The inability to resign from the job I was engaging in, which could no longer take care of my bills became a difficult decision to make, Thinking that life will be very difficult for me. This fear pinned me down in an unproductive job environment for 2 years not until I break fort in 2020 of which the difference is clear.
This year has taught me to be myself and to eschew what I'm not. There is no point in living a fake life. Let people know you for who you are. If they chose to accept you the way you are or not. There's no sense in attempting to please everyone to your detriment. I stated in one of my posts that in my country, people look down on people who ride a tricycle because they think that it's demeaning and it's for the illiterates. But I summoned the courage to ride the tricycle not minding the fact that I'm a university graduate. Often times whenever I see my colleagues I am proud to tell them what I do. Not minding what they wi think about it. Keeping it real will reduce the rate at which people what about you in your absence.
Helping and supporting people around you carries many blessings. I can not agree less with this statement. This year, I have given much of my fortune to helping people. Giving out food items and money to those in need has increased my finances. Love for humanity is the greatest commandment for all to carry out and in my little capacity I have paid school fees to some school children, I have bought clothes for some persons and many others. In all this, I do them effortlessly.
No one truly cares about you than your family. In 2021, I have realized that the true kind of Love is that of family.i don't know about you. When all is lost your family will be there for you. This year, I went through some challenges, financially, emotionally, and otherwise, I reached out to friends yet no one could help me out of the mess. But in all this, my family always has my back. The people that genuinely want you to make it in life are your family.
Finally, whatever we put into the world is what we reap. This year I have realized that anything you sow is what you will reap. You sow hard work, you reap success. At the end of the year, most people have looked back at what they have achieved since the year began and they are happy. Meanwhile, most people too aren't satisfied with the way the year is ending because they have not accomplished their plans. In my case, I'm delighted because looking back at how I started the year, and how I'm ending it, I'm satisfied that my hard work has paid off.
In all, 2021 has been an amazing year for me, the experiences are inexhaustible. While I'm looking forward to another successful year come 2022, I pray that whatever we seek to achieve shall be made possible and we shall be shielded from the monstrous hand of covid-19.
Thank you for stopping by to read this post, till we meet on the flip side. Happy New Year in advance.