Reflections from the East: A new kind of life

You know that expression “the sun rises from the east”? It’s a geographical fact I’ve known for a while thanks to my dad’s love for geography but I’ll just have to say I never really understood the magnitude and the truth of the phrase until recently. I took a trip to a town in the Eastern part of my country and let me just tell you, the sun really does rise from the east! I had a gigantic window near my bed and it almost made it impossible to sleep past 6am with how bright it would get. I don’t know but seeing such a fact come to life was truly an awesome thing and I made sure to tell everyone I could hehehe. However, I felt the rise of the sun became normalised after a while maybe it’s the change of weather but I’ll make sure to update you as I go.

I’ll be able to update you because I’m going to be living in Eastern Nigeria for a while. My new “home” is similar and yet so different from where I actually call home. It’s similar because it’s filled with human beings full of dreams and the hustling spirit like the ones I already know. It is different because the people speak a different language and seem to place less values on some traditions I have learnt from my other travels. I love it in Eastern Nigeria, everyone has been so nice that I often felt tempted to be suspicious hehehe! But as usual when I travel, I know that no matter how long I have to spend there, I’m only there temporarily and that for me is a good thing. It keeps me on my toes and enables me to be more intentional about the impact I can make and it also makes me to be more present throughout my experience there because I know they’ll soon become memories.

I’m going to let you in soon on my purpose for being in the East but for now, I hope my story makes you feel part of my adventure. So, it’s the end of the year and it feels different for me this year. Maybe it is always different because we have different experiences in a year but somehow I really just feel the difference, maybe this is what adulting looks and feels like. Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty much doing the same Christmas/end of the year rituals (I travelled back to be with my family for the holidays) but I just seem to be experiencing things differently like I never have before.

2021 was an awesome year! It was the gap year I never asked for and I never knew I needed. I grew so much over the past year and that growth made me aware of how much I still need to grow. I’m so thankful for how God came through for me time and time again, and I know you’re reading this as I write it Lord so I want to let you know that I love you so much and I’m giving you a big hug right now and I’m grateful for how much you love me. To my readers, thank you for coming on this unexpected journey with me, my desire is for this blog to grow and be even better than it is now, so cheers to next year by God’s grace! 2021 was also full of a lot of unexpected events and I’m getting the feeling that we should expect things to be like that for a while! I hope you hit all your goals for this year and if you didn’t, I hope you know that’s okay too. Life is a journey and not a race and so all we should strive to do is to enjoy the process. I love you all with the love of the Lord and I pray we know Him even more intimately as we enter into the next year!

As we reflect and plan for the new year, I want one of your goals to be taking life one day a time. Be thankful for the now and don’t be anxious about tomorrow, be present today and don’t be afraid of what tomorrow may look like. We can only live in one day at a time so let’s be determined to enjoy and give all we have to that day. For now, it’s goodbye! Happy New Year! Cheers to a prosperous and engraced 2022 🥂

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