MY JOURNEY SO FAR

Life hasn't been easy, surviving hasn't been easy. I have lived, I have loved, I have been loved, I have made mistakes, I have fixed mistakes, I have learned, I have grown, but I am not where I want to be. I think a lot about where I want to be and sometimes it's frustrating when I realize that it still looks far. It will take a level of consistency to be where I want to be, and when I think about the efforts I put in, I realize I am not in that level of consistency. My journey began when my mum called me to let me know that my dad's business had finally crashed with him losing everything he had worked for.

This was a very hard pill to swallow because apart from the fact that he lost everything, he was still heavily indebted. This meant that he could no longer afford to continue my education and if I wanted to continue I needed to do everything possible to put myself through school. I decided there and then what I needed to do bearing a very strong conviction in mind. “Except a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies it abides not forever”. This for me meant that the only way I had to succeed was to go lower than I had ever gone in my life. I needed to drop out of school and I did just that. It took me three years, and after that I was only mentally prepared for what I was going to face.

I started working and schooling, doing more than three jobs to keep myself afloat and for the jobs I was doing, there was really no stable income except one that paid me less than $10 a month which was what I used to purchase 2 textbooks every month. I was offering at least 11 courses per semester which was 6 months. But with my stable salary it would take over a year. I did assignments for students just so I could get more textbooks and also eat. Now It's been three years and I am trying to make a name for myself in the oil and gas industry which is no easy feat. Sometimes it feels like an impossible mission, and other times I feel I can do it. Well here I am, still pushing.

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