As a child , I always wanted to be a lawyer. You know, I honestly can't say what really made me want to be a lawyer, I just knew that I used to love the whole lawyer vibes thing, from the headgear to the dress that they wore, and when you see a law student in school, you can identify them very fast. They have this kind of confidence and smartness attached to them, then whenever I watch TV i do like when a lawyer's scene comes up , the way they talk, carry themselves, and all then i didnt really know what been a lawyer was about, but never stopped admiring them, I even told my mom one time that i was going to become a lawyer, and she said okay, that it was a good dream I had and I should focus well on school so that I can achieve my dreams.
When I got to senior secondary school, I was placed in a commercial department. At that time I wasn't even thinking about my dreams anymore , i knew then that i was more focused on getting good grades in school, but somehow I still held on to the dream pf becoming a lawyer. After a while in commercial department i had to switch to Art department because i couldnt cope with accounting then.And i was happy i did because it was in line with my dream. But as they say life happens. i didnt end up becoming a lawyer, infact im still a student, even though the plan was to finish secondary school and gain admission into university and now start studying law, but it didnt happen like that , because there was no money to fund my dreams, and to achieve any dream in this life, one must have money, so there was no financial support for that dream. I decided to venture into something I loved to do which was cooking/baking. I went into the practical aspect for one year, and then I found myself with a boyfriend, and then I got pregnant. Lol, funny, huh?
Everything changed from then forth. I wasn't thinking about any dream, I was thinking about how to make a good woman to my man, lol, until one day my eyes opened, and I asked myself, Where do you see yourself in the next 10 years?" Well, I couldn't answer that question then, and I decided I wanted to go back to school , which i am currently in the process of doing now. I decided to study marketing because it was the course i knew I could do comfortably and i also did like business courses. Marketing is creative it actually challenges me in ways I did not even expect.
Yeah, sometimes I think about how different things would have been if i had the support to pursue my dreams then, but I can't beat myself over what I couldn't handle. I have come to embrace the current path I am on and I am hoping to take this to a big level. Even though going to school as a mother is not really easy , i did will keep pushing forward because there's no turning back in my calendar.
Yeah, I know I didn't become a lawyer , but I became strong and resilient, I became someone who didnt give up, and maybe who knows? I might decide to chase being a lawyer someday!
