With the unfurling of each day, with all the baggage each day comes with, the good, the bad, the struggle filled days, and the soft days, it is necessary to pause and reflect on particular aspects of our lives. And I particularly love the prompt for this week that asks why are you here? Since it is one that requires reflection.
As humans, we all have different aspects of our lives and in all those aspects, we are at different stages. In those stages also, there's a reason that brought about us being there. As people who live life everyday, and grow daily, there are series of decisions, consequences and actions that have brought us to these different stages of our lives and so, I'm going to answer this prompt, as it relates to various aspects of my life.
Being here today, wasn't a decision made by me. It is through God's will that I find myself here and so, it is left to me, to make the best of the time spent on here. I am a student currently. I am not a student only because my parents asked me to go to school. I am a student because I want to be a student and not because someone made the decision for me.
A series of decisions has fuelled my choice of a discipline. From my love for mathematics as a kid, to my love for computing and data processing, as a teenager, everything has joined in shaping my current field of study today. I don't know if I am going to make it in life, through my current discipline but what matters is that I have made choices that brought me here and I will follow through, to make the best out of it.
I have reached a stage where I prioritize quantity over quality in relationships. Why am I at this stage? Experiences, lessons and actions have brought me here. I no longer keep friends, merely for the sake of having around. I no longer entertain people at the detriment of my own self. I've had experiences with people that gave me insights on how to treat the people around me. So, currently, my priority in relationships is to make impact in the lives of my friends, partners, family members. And it should be the other way round as well.
I was at church today, and I had an encounter with a woman. She did something that almost made the purpose of attending church today, not worth it. Her action left me with so much anger and hurt that consumed me for a long time after what happened had happened. And you know what struck me, in the midst of all the questionings of self, and all the possible ways I could have avoided a situation like that, was my purpose for being in the church in the first place. Was I in church for the people or for God? Why then was I letting her actions hinder me from achieving my sole purpose of being there? That, dear reader was what brought me back on track, and allowed me focus on what mattered.
You see, most times in life, on the way to achieving one's purpose, our emotions and the people around us, can sometimes, serve as a hindrance. But in everything, finding a path that'll lead you back to where you started out for is key. Not every situation deserves the amount of time you spend on it.
So, in summary, I am here, because I want to be better. I am here because I love myself, and want the best for me. I am here because I want to make an impact in the lives of me around me. In all this, I am sanguine about what the future holds, and how my current whys will end up shaping my life in the future.
Thanks for reading.
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