Letter from Zion.
WITH THIS THE 2024 SEASON COMES TO AN END.
If I can remember anything from 2023, it will be the fact that I achieved a lot of things and I felt fulfilled at the end of the year, and if can say anything about 2024, I will only thank God for growth and understanding.
2024 is the year I can relate to Fireboy’s lyrics “they never see me coming”, dearest gentle reader I never saw it coming. At the ending of every year I do a self evaluation of what I achieved and what I learnt in the year and this year was quite different. For the first time, I recorded more lessons than achievements and at first I felt really bad and I was sad that I couldn’t achieve the littlest of my ‘24 goals.
I remembered saying it last year that God is not done with me yet but I never saw this upgrade coming. One thing that has been consistent about me is the fact that over the years my work or plans always begin in the 2nd month and this year was no different. It all started when NYSC decided to shift me to batch A stream 2 even thought I’ve registered with stream one. Finally, in the fourth month I was posted to Kogi state and for a couple of months I was destabilized and pained. All my relocation efforts had gone to a waste and the brand I was running and just rebranded died. I was so unhappy that I left WhatsApp for several months under the guise of my network is bad. In all my sojourn in life I have never been this far from my family that I became homesick and my mental health was “running kiti kiti” up and down.
Another challenge I faced was my health. For the first time in four years I visited a clinic to be treated not once, not twice but thrice and those were when I decided to get treated so that I will not die. I was mad at everyone around me and vent my anger on innocent people but still no be them send me.
Like I said earlier, I learnt lessons more than achievements, number one lesson i learnt was tolerance, I had no choice than to stay with other corp members. Our ethical and moral beliefs were different and mostly our way of lives.
The second lesson I learnt was that God’s guidance and wisdom is paramount to everything. We can’t do life ourselves without the help of God’s wisdom else we’ll toil in vain, we can’t afford to do life on our own.
Another lesson I’ll write here is knowing there is a reason for everything and that the wisdom of God is man’s foolishness. I also learnt that obedience to God is the best way to live life. Most of us have instructions guiding our lives yet, a good percentage of us would still go ahead and do their will. I learnt that when God ask your to wait, don’t modify the instructions, don’t do thesis or check and balance with the instructions of God, you have to be fully dependent on his instructions.
Above all love is the highlight it all. No matter what it may be always love. Love God, Love yourself and Love your neighbor.
I wouldn’t lie tho, I enjoyed my ‘24 because I got to meet new people and get a new place to live, I had the chance to see other people’s cultures and learn their language.
2024 was a rough year for me but I still found joy in my chaos and my peace knows no end. This should be you too, I don’t know how the year was for you but in everything let your joy overshadow your pain.
Dearest gentle reader, my prayer for myself and you in 2025 is to receive the grace of ease that makes us do difficult things without breaking a sweat.
Thank you for reading and sticking with me all through the year, you are the real MVP.
Compliments of the season from “Letter from Zion”.
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Thank you for reading lovelies,
Love, Light and Amala,
Oluwaseun AYANFEBABA❤️
