When Your Life Seems To Be On Hold...

Life was literally sweet as a child. Zero worries, stable meals, and most especially, nothing about one’s life seemingly being on hold as it were. You had elder ones doing your worries for you, most especially your parents. In most cases, all you had to do was behave well in school and come out with good grades. For some kids, life was so sweet to the point that, all their parents did while they were in boarding house was monitor their ‘provision’ level, to make sure another one comes in readily once the old one becomes exhausted. Well, ‘omo buti’ we called such kids.

The shift however begins to happen when to some extent the teenage years starts knocking and certain responsibilities begins to fall on you, especially as pertaining to your life. In countries such as England and United States, full responsibility literally falls on you the moment you clock 18/21 respectively. You then begin to understand in bits what life really is about asides opening the fridge and seeing already bought/prepared foods- courtesy of your parents. For people in Nigeria, full responsibility in most cases comes knocking the moment you become a tertiary institution graduate.

No doubt some people experience this maturity early in life, especially for people who for some reasons lost their parents, or their parents were too helpless to be of help. Such people go through life earlier and as a result, mature much faster. But then, for people like me and (most likely) you, we get to experience it at a much later stage. We often realize at this stage that life indeed is more than passing exams and tests, as a matter fact, it is more about facing adversities and standing strong in the midst of them all. Then all of a sudden, the question on our lips literally changes from ‘mummy, what are we having for dinner?’, to ‘how do I face these life’s storms and issues successfully?’ 

Inasmuch as there is literally no one human formula to facing life’s storms as it were, we can hold on to a few ways that has worked for people ahead of us, especially with the hope that it would work for us. One of such ways would be to hold on to our faith whenever the storm shows up (whatever our religion is), as well as pay due attention to our inner selves to listen to the adjustments that needs to be made, bearing in mind that each storm no matter how severe have come to make us better and stronger.

One other thing we can also do, is to respond per time to every trickle of positivity that comes our way, especially such that springs us up for the moment and enables us to at least get some worthwhile things done right in the middle of the raging storm. Other times as well, with some storms, all we might need to do is take a meaningful break/pause from all our activities (especially for such that has to do with physical health).

Whichever way works for you, all that matters in the end is ensuring that the storms you experience makes you better, wiser and stronger, and that you never lose your true self in the end.

Till I come your way again next week Wednesday, remain strong, as well as calm (as a result of your faith, especially in God), as the storm takes its full course, knowing fully well that this is life and life is never a bed of roses.

 

Glossary:

*Provision- a stack of welfare materials (such as beverages), taken to school to supplement whatever is being given as meal in school.

*Omo Buti- A child with rich parents.


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