AM I RUNNING OUT OF TIME?
It’s exactly 336 hours left. Where did I keep it? Where is that piece of precious paper? Oh, wait! Found it! It was scrunched up and almost forgotten underneath my numerous love notes🤭🤭🤫… notes to self. I carefully ticked a few empty check boxes I could see. My 2022 checklist still had a lot of empty white boxes staring at me, judgementally.😕
The workload doesn’t seem to decrease. Is there a problem or am I living life backwards? I can almost vividly remember the first day of January 2022. As I watched beautiful fireworks displays from the comfort room, I made up my mind to be better in 2022. I wrote down what many call “new year resolutions”. Looking out my window today, I can genuinely feel my pulse rate rapidly ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ increasing. I still have so much more to do… and the presha is getting wesser😭😭 ( the pressure is getting worse).
So many people feel like this when they set goals, place themselves under pressure, end up getting overwhelmed, and boom! To establish that their village people are working, they give up entirely.😪
Pay rapt attention because what you’re about to read will change your life completely. Right before we begin this ride, take a deep breath, hold it in, count to five, and then let it go. Ess!! Aunty and Uncle Hubris, I can see you o( I actually can’t LOL!😂), Why do you want to skip the exercise?. Take in a deep breath and follow through with the exercise. Now to begin this ride…💃
To the students:
You made up your mind to ace all exam papers and boost your CGPA but you got a C in that three-unit course taught by the one lecturer you think despises you.
I love you, so let me let you in on a little secret, come closer 😉. I won’t tell you that failure is part of life, I’m not your conventional motivational speaker but what I will tell you is, don’t give up!
- In times like this, the best thing for you to do is, try to condition your mind to like the lecturer. Hold on! I am sure at this point, some of y’all are shaking your heads in disagreement but my dear, it works.
- If the lecturer is still hell-bent on making you miserable, I would advise from my faith POV. Pray!! Ahhh! “Adura” ( meaning “prayer” in the Yoruba language of Nigeria) is key. You think your village people are after you? They have no clue as to who they are messing with. Pray darling, be fiery! Pray concerning the lecturer as well as your grades.
- Prayer isn’t all there is though. You equally have to put in extra effort to study. Study with peers who seem to focus on similar goals as you. Study!
To Sister Taylor-Oluwa Swift that was served breakfast last month:
One of your resolutions this year was to get a man! Unfortunately, Brother Justin-Oloriburuku Cheetah-Igwe broke up with you last month. To put the icing on the cake, he has moved on. Rumours have it that he is getting engaged this month in the village. Hmmm! Let me start by giving you a roll of tissue to wipe your tears.🥺Secondly, use this small bag of money 💰to spoil yourself a little. Kindly bring back the small change left. Ejo(please), things are hard, economically for me too.😩😩
I am genuinely trying to sympathize with you😥😥. No matching Christmas Pyjamas this year? Please don’t put pressure on yourself. Buy and wear matching pyjamas with your parents. They would appreciate it.🤭😂 Now moving on;
- A little bird once told me that when breakfast is served, it is just a preparation for a tasty dinner. When a relationship ends(breakfast is served), it’s an eye opener and a preparatory stage for you to meet with your life’s partner( the tasty dinner). It’s hard, honestly but you cannot kill yourself. You have to move on!
- Spend time developing yourself. Your skillset, your capacity, that summer body you’ve always dreamed of and so much more. Develop yourself. In a previous article “ It’s a Sobo, a cold Sobo… Romanticizing your life”. I emphasized taking yourself on dates. Get to know yourself. Honestly, I am not advising that whenever a relationship doesn’t work out, you should fall back on developing yourself. Never stop growing; if the presumed partner isn’t supportive of your growth, you should already see that as a hot red flag. 🎵Be a runner, be a track star🎵… Run!😂
- All this won’t help you get a man. I know that, but at least you’ve survived to see this message. My timely advice is that you sip wine 🍷 and move on🤲😊.
That’s all for now lovelies. *dramatically drops mic*💆♀️
If you enjoyed this, kindly clap a lot, drop a comment and share this post with your friends. Merry Christmas in advance and trust me, you are not running out of time. A “new year” doesn’t mean life has experienced a “pause and play”. Life continues unperturbed.
🤗Life is a race, so run at your pace.🤗-SHESPEAKSHERMIND247, 2022
