“Coming home…this is my idea of Heaven.” – Racheal Abiriba.
Hello darling!
How have you been and how is your day going?
Thank you for being patient with me over the past couple of weeks, life has been happening at an extremely fast pace but I’m back and better. I know that I’ve apologised for this before, but for someone who has been doing this ‘adulting’ thing for a while, I admit that I’m still a long way from figuring it all out. But, isn’t that what most of us are doing? Living, and finding ourselves while we explore this journey called life? The cool kids call it ‘winging life’.
A couple of weeks ago, I was feeling like life was happening too fast and honestly, I wasn’t handling it all very well. I was saying a lot of ”I’m great!” when in reality, I wasn’t. I was spending time doing things that didn’t really make me happy nor added much value to my life in the long run, and that realisation made me halt everything that I could halt.
The things that made it all worse were the missed evenings of seeing a movie with my siblings after work, gossiping with my mum, reading a book, or writing my heart out. But there was hardly any time for these any more. The little time I had, I invested in using social media to escape from the difficult and important things; losing myself to the pull. Yes, I know how wrong that was.
I knew what I had to do to break from the norm: hours on other people’s pages on social media, focusing on other people’s needs above mine, keeping quiet when I had so much to say, and so much that I am not vulnerable enough to share.
I did the best thing I could. I took a break from social media, made time to gossip with my mum, caught some movies with my siblings, and slept as much as I could. I love the feeling of being selfish with my time. I owe it to myself to be happy, whatever that looks like, while I navigate this road called ’adulthood’.
I’m still figuring out how to balance out the different parts of me to allow me to achieve the best life that I want for myself, but I’m back and better; learning not to put myself under a lot of pressure to get everything right.
Nothing makes me as happy as growth does (except food and skincare), and doing some self-appraisal is a necessary part of that growth. It’s important for us to remind ourselves of who we are and not compromise on what we know we deserve. I know this, and I’m learning to practice it daily.
Life will always provide us with good and bad experiences aimed at preparing us for what lies ahead, but until we can learn from those experiences and apply what we have learnt, we won’t be able to properly deal with the new opportunities that life will test us with.
So, I’ve resolved to find joy and peace wherever, whenever and with whomever, I will be with. I hope this gives you an explanation which was the reason for my necessary absence. I also hope that you love and enjoy my future content. Please, freely engage with me and let me know what you think about my writing and the blog in general. Until my next post…
XoXo,
“He has shown you, O Man, what is good; and what has the Lord required of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” – Micah 6:8
This article was first published on my previous blog and was transfered here with only minor typographic edits.
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