This year has been very eventful in every way possible, I find myself in places I never expected. Being human is to accept the fact that challenges in whatever form it might appear is also part of life, this I recognised and accepted wholeheartedly, afterall everything is just another lesson to add to my handbook.
Frankly, I would say whatever journey I find myself walking this year, didn't began this year. Last year I made quite an unusual kind of new year resolution, which is to explore the world of the unknown. One thing you need to know about me is that, I have never been a fan of uncertainties, I prefer to be in the "known" so that I can stay one step ahead of whatever might come my way.
This way I get to live comfortable life, which kind of feels like I'm always playing safe, taking only calculated risk but with this I was only limited to specific number of things, life is risky and the earlier I accepted that the better I would become. Out of this thinking my last year new year resolution was born, to explore the world of the unknown.
My first point of exploration was to learn more about the crypto space. Like I have said plenty times, getting into the crypto space I was never really opportune to learn about the basics, I just kept learning as I was moving forward but it got to a point where my lack of knowledge of some terminologies were limiting my growth. In order to correct this, I made a decision to enroll in crypto classes and it has been a beautiful ride so far.
As I decided to explore the world in the digital world, in the physical world I was already exploring. I began my NYSC journey last year March and it continued this year. That is why I said whatever journey I embarked on this year all started last year. My NYSC journey changed my life in a lot of ways, I was posted to an isolated village, a place that I would never believed it existed, only in movies. For someone that only walked the path that is safe, journeying this unfamiliar path was a struggle.
This community lacks almost everything I knew or I needed, electricity, food, hygienic environment, good network e. t. c it was like I travelled back to the past, when civilisation cease to exist. I had to learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. I experienced a lot of things in this community and I also learnt a lot. Seeing how little the people in this community knew and how little they had and yet they are joyful at every point. I began to count my blessings more than I count my sorrows.
I learnt not to expect anything from life or anyone but make use of anything life throws at me to my own advantage. For someone whose source of income was dependent on online activities, yet I lived in a community without electricity and network for a whole year. I was a little bit depressed at first, though I have always wanted to explore the wild, I mean to experience a village life, I guess I should have been careful what I wished for.
It took me awhile to accept my new reality, I had to purchase a solar panel and all, to power some of my devices. I had to learn to survive on what I needed not what I wanted. Well, the journey did not last forever, March this year I concluded my NYSC journey. Funny part was that, at the beginning I couldn't wait for the journey to end but close to the end, I hesitated.
I didn't want to leave at some point. I served in a school and I was showered abundance of love from my students and fellow teachers. Though the students can be difficult sometimes but I made sure I dealt with them to the extent, we both understood each other and learn to tolerate one another. Believe me, village children are far more stronger and stubborn in every way possible. Out of the whole hardships, there were lot of memorable moments.
Since the world of the unknown is limitless, I kept on exploring and I have found lot of amazing stuff along the line. I didn't set any objectives for this year, it is just all about exploring areas of interest and based on what I have achieved this year, I'm going to do the same next year. No objectives, just hunger for knowledge and exploring anything I find meaningful or worthy of my attention. To keep trying out new things, opportunities and also challenges. The good news about this is that, there is no pressure or fear of failure, anything I get done, I'm satisfied with it. Believe me, there is comfort in knowing you tried.
This write-up was inspired by week 34 episode 1 - SciFi multiverse prompt titled "Good and bad event" in SciFi multiverse community.
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