@Promo-Mentors is hosting an interesting challenge!
I had to enter for it. Because I love challenges and because I had a response.
These have molded my values and beliefs which in turn have determined my priorities.
I am the third born of five children, meaning I am the middle child. For those who know, middle born children TEND to be ‘forgotten’. I have two elder brothers and two younger sisters and I like to see myself as part male and part female. ‘Forgotten’, I learnt to hear and listen to a lot of things without needing to talk back or give a reply, and so I tend to notice and understand what many people may overlook.
I was sexually abused as a child, and so that makes me very interested in the subject. I wish I can prevent it from happening, but I know I am not that powerful, but I am here for those who are victims of that sin.
I love teaching and counseling. I seem to know what someone should do, but I will be honest in saying that I don’t know where it comes from, but I know I pray.
I am a Christian and I think that has helped me more than I will ever know, helping me realize that there is always better than I see at a point in time, and make me reach out for it.
I have always been drawn to other people’s problems and many times I get over my head trying to help, but when I can raise pain or help someone get clearer thoughts, I feel like all is right with world.
I love seeing new things and new places and different people. I am also intrigued by languages, but too lazy to learn new ones.
All the above listed points about me have led me to look forward to a time when I can do something with all of them.
If and when I become financially free, I am going to do a lot of travelling, helping foundations focused on sexual abuse by giving my counseling and listening services for free. I will also help financially because money answers all things. All Things.
I know how people can expect a victim to just snap out of ‘it’, like it is easy. They have no idea about the depth of wrongness a single wrong doing can cause in the life of someone, and how much rightness is need to make the life a little okay, because it never goes back the same, no it never does. But I know I can make it a little better for those I can help.
I will also host conferences for such survivors. I will share what I have learnt and what I have observed. I will make them know that a wrong was done to them, but that there is always better ahead.
When I attain financial freedom, I will travel about helping survivors of sexual abuse in ways I can, allowing them talk, helping them through their journey to healing, after I have gotten trained properly, and prayed harder of course.
Maybe then I will get to learn Hausa and Efik and French and Spanish and German and Tiv and Russia and maybe earn some accents too. Life would be great!
That’s the dream.
