Full circle
I changed the title of this piece 3 times because everything else didn’t seem like they would capture all I needed to say with this piece but I really hope “Full circle” would suffice. This piece is for everyone of us who are jumping hurdles but still counting our wins🥂
I haven’t written a piece this year so it’s safe to say I’m a little bit rusty🌚 I turned 27 today and what better time to share a piece than now? I decided to share one of the most significant lessons from my 26th chapter. I’m not exactly sure how this is going to go but please stay with me, I promise it will make sense as we go.
I’ve personally struggled with balance this year. It feels like everything is happening so fast and I barely have time to catch my breath. Now it is important to say that I prayed for this season, I wanted it so badly and now that it’s here i sometimes wonder if I’m truly ready for the overflow of what would follow because I have such big, crazy dreams😂 You see if there’s one thing I’ve learnt in the past year? It is the fact that life will always come to a full circle and if you trust God that circle will be a solid circle, the kind you can lean on without fear of falling over.
How does life come to a full circle you might be thinking? You have probably successfully closed a few circles without acknowledging or maybe you didn’t even know you were in a circle. I’ll give some examples. You know how you are a graduate now but once upon a time your biggest worry was passing JAMB and getting admission? That’s a full circle, you started at a point, you went through the process or in this case round the process and now you can think back to that point where the process started. Or it could be how you decided to transition into a new career, you were clueless and unsure, you spent hours taking classes online, jumping from one webinar to YouTube videos trying to soak it up like a sponge, shooting your shot on Linkedin, Watching other people in that space bogusly describe their career journey and you wonder if that will ever be you, you have doubts that try to convince you that you may have chosen a wrong path and you could never get a job in this new career talk more of becoming an authority in the field but look at you today? You are an analyst, or maybe a senior Dev, designing products, doing Frontend like a pro, and navigating the digital space like you own it. You have reached another full circle because you can easily think back to the point it all started, the entire process it took to get to where you are now. Another example could be choosing to start a side hustle because God forbid one stream of income, so you decide to become a makeup artist or a graphic designer or maybe selling soup bowls or drop shipping jewelry. The first few months would be the toughest because business is even harder in this current economy, people are too hungry to even ask you how much your service cost but you have been so consistent that now you have a sales book, you probably have jobs every weekend and you are even training a few people. Do you see? Another full circle!
You see, this piece is not just about reaching a full circle, it is navigating your way through it. What do you do when closing the circle starts to feel unattainable or way beyond your reach? How do you move on when your plans are not following the curve of the circle? How do you know to stop drawing a circle and try drawing an oval or maybe a cylinder?
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Reaching a full circle is not all bed of roses, quite the opposite actually because a lot of people never complete their circles, some people do and it’s completely negative because completing that circle means life, bad choices and wickedness catching up with them. As much as I’ve described all the good stuff because I’m all about the good life, I’m too realist to not acknowledge that some circles need to be abandoned, lit up and burned 😂 Sometimes, you need to leave that circle and start drawing squares especially if it keeps taking you back to a horrible past that you are trying to move on from. Other times you may deal with imposter syndrome, anxiety, crippling depression, a sense of remaining stagnant or even regressive and if we want to be honest we would agree that we wouldn’t feel all of these if life just goes our way and we didn’t have to jump hurdles. How does any sane person go through all of these and still be completing circles? You check and then balance yourself.
How do you check yourself when you start to forget who you are? How do you check yourself in the process of completing a circle? You need to make a habit of asking yourself all the hard questions. How do you talk to yourself? Are you in a habit of reminding yourself of mistakes you really should be letting go of? Have you forgiven yourself? Do you set boundaries with yourself and people you let into your space? Do you trust your instincts? Do you trust that you will always make the right choice for yourself? Or you always need the opinion of others before you make a move? Do you hold yourself accountable when you don’t do what you said you would? Who are your accountability partners? Are your choices in your best interest or are they people pleasing? Do you have personal values and are you living by those values? Do you make time for small pleasures and things that are important to you? Your family, friends and loved ones? Finally, do you take care of yourself? Do you take time to rest? Do you acknowledge that you are tired and need some time off?
Full circle is reaching a destination and returning to the beginning of the journey. It is the end, the justified means and then taking a look back at the beginning. It is the boldness to look back at where you came from, where you currently are and acknowledging all it took to get there. It is finally letting out a deep breath because you are at peace with yourself, the choices you have made and how they changed you. Full circle is closure. Full circle is growth. Full circle is impact. Full circle is accountability to yourself.
The moral of this gist? Coming to full circle is okay but checking yourself constantly as you journey through that circle is “okeke”😂😂😂 ( I’m joking🌚)
The real moral of this gist? Sometimes the end and the beginning are the same place, it is at the end of one circle you look back and find motivation to begin a new circle. This piece turned out longer than I anticipated so I’m going to end by saying.
“Sometimes life brings you full circle to a place you have been before, just to show you how much you’ve grown”.
I know you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. It’s my birthday today, please say a small prayer for me❤️
