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Hi guys,
It feels good to be able to share yet another blog with you guys. This time round the topic is about what we are grateful for this year, and what are the things we are most happy about. First of all, I hope we all get to see the new year in good health and spirit.
As the year comes to an end I can’t help but reflect on the little improvements I have made in the little departments I said I will try and improve as 2021 was ending. I remember this same time last year I was not one of the people who liked working with goals, schedules and others. It has taken a great deal for me to start working with schedules and try to improve my life.
Now, each time I think of achievements I can’t help but think about all the good things and the bad things this year has taught me. If for nothing this year has taught me that anything can happen to anyone no matter how good or bad you think you are or have been. It has taught me that 100 days of bad luck can turn into one day of goodness.
As 2021 was coming to an end, I listed some of the things that I wanted to improve about myself and also some of the things that I wanted to improve around me.
First of all, one of the things that are dear to my heart is prayer. If not for anything my five daily prayers are the most important thing in the life of every Muslim. These are compulsory prayers that every Muslim need to complete no matter how busy or tight their schedule is. This is one of the things and no matter what you are doing you have to pray.
In 2021, I didn’t have problems with performing my five daily prayers, I had problems with completing them on time. So I decided to take them more seriously and this year I’ve been better. I know that there have been times that I overlooked prayer and stuff but generally speaking it was better than last year. Especially within the World Cup period. There were mostly matches at asr time and I didn’t pray on time. On isha times too there were matches thus this made it difficult to finish prayer on time. But with time I started overlooking the matches and then praying.
One other thing I prioritised this year was my grades. Do you remember the feeling you had when you first got into the university? You had a lot of expectations. High hopes and all that but then with time you forget about all those. With time I was unmotivated and so were my grades. Before 2022 my grades started depleting and I had to do something about them.
This meant I had to up my game. I had to stick to the books. The expectations might have been affected by some factors but then what can we do if not perform? It has been better so far but I think I can improve it more for the final year. As we go forward things become more complicated and we have to spend more time trying to understand and work things out.
One of the things we don’t value in Ghana is going for an occasion early. We have something we call the Ghana man time. If an occasion is supposed to happen at 9 they say the occasion is at maybe 7 or 8 so that people can make it by 9.
I know am a Ghanaian too but I will love to be different. I will love to genuinely go for a programme on time no matter what others think and do. Maybe one day when I am supposed to be a guest or something at a programme I will make sure to go early for it. This attitude is not our fault sometimes. We all know that even if we do go early the dignitaries won’t be there early. This is one of the reasons why people don’t wanna go for anything early.
This year was much better. I didn’t go fit programmes early but at least I did better than last year. So this year I will look to improve on that.
A few years back and I easily get irritated. Patience has been one of the things that I have had to work on so much. It has not been easy but I have to. Now that I am more mature I think it is better.
If I can remember correctly. One year back and anger was my first weapon or should I say should at the slighted upset from someone. This year has been a lot better as I have tried my best to be patient. Patience has not only been in the anger management department. But also patient to wait when things are not going on well.
Patience to wait for your blessings and all that. This year has made me realise that to have good things you need to be patient and things have been good. You can’t always have things your way and most times the only thing you’ve got is patience.
As the year is ending, we all hope to see 2023 in good health. If I can cross over I will look to improve on most of the things that I was able to work on this year. You can never be perfect at something but you can be better.
Thanks for reading.