Yesterday, I felt pressurized and sad. It’s not really my business and this isn’t me trying to compare my life to another but sometimes, I just think about the whole thing.
My life hasn’t really been straightforward or the happy one which people usually have. I left home as early as sixteen and as at nineteen, I began to fend for myself. It wasn’t easy and with the challenges I have faced, they may be enough to cripple my emotions but still, I keep going.
Sometimes, when scrolling through social media, I see that some of my mates are married, some are building houses and doing greater things in life while I’m just here. It’s quite disturbing and sometimes makes me cry. Sometimes, I just want to detach myself from everyone and think about my life but there’s this voice that keeps ringing in my head. Don’t force it, is what it says to me all the time.
Then, I realized that I was making a big mistake. While complaining about not doing greater things like my mates and so on, some of my mates are late. This is what makes me thankful all the time and makes me know that there is still so much hope for me in life.
I know I’m not the only one who feels this way. I have a male friend who thinks about this almost all the time and sometimes, he breaks down in tears. You know, experiences differs and his experience is what shaped his life to the extent of crying due to the things he thinks about.
At last, I learned that when there is life, there is hope and as long as we are alive, we can even achieve more and better to the people whom we look up to.
If you’re alive, you’ve got a hope so never stop what you’re doing.
I may be sad because I’m not where my mates are but I wasn’t like this yesterday and as long as everyday is an avenue to get better, I never misuse that great opportunity.
Being alive is an opportunity and I hope we all make good use of it.