June was beautiful
178/300. Utter gratitude.
One thing about June was that she didn’t go the way I expected.
Did I make plans? Maybe.
Did the plans hold? Likely not.
Yet life was beautiful in June.
I’m grateful for the people I met.
This has to be my biggest gratitude for June. Safe to say, I was in the right places at the right time in June. I connected with so many amazing persons and grew into another part of myself I didn’t even realize. Just as I type this I am currently on a birthday call for one of our mentors and the more everybody spoke of his impact in their life. They more I quietly whisper thank you, Jesus.
I take a look around me and the type of associations around me and quietly whisper, Eshe, Jesu. Gracias Muchas, Dios.
I’m grateful for the stretching.
Ooh, June stretched me. The things I used to do? They came with full force. I fought the devil and the deep blue sea and we don’t know the winner.
I have been undergoing a rigorous phase in my community called the bridge. And I promise you, this last month tested every single thing I’ve got inside of me and still testing.
Somehow somehow, the capacity of my mind exploded. Somehow somehow I grew restless with what I was doing and needed to do more.
My head still hurts but thank you Jesus, for the stretching.
I’m grateful for writing.
This is obviously obvious yet underrated. Writer’s block… brain fog… brain freeze and I’m still standing.
I’m grateful for reading.
Thanks to the bridge I’ve read more than I’d read in half a year in 120days. And because of the constant reading, I have also pushed myself to read books beyond the recommended. Not that it matters, but I tracked and I’ve read over 30books in just 6 months of this year.
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With the low attention span infecting the world, I’m grateful I can still read.
And in reading, I write and to write, I think. I’m grateful.
I’m grateful for winning and for finding bits and pieces of myself
I have come to a point in my life where I didn’t even realize who I was or what I liked. I didn’t realize that I am the type of person obsessed with winning because exams have scared me for the longest time, that shrinking myself became second nature.
But June opened my eyes all over again. Before June though, I’d been winning in the bridge as one of the highest scoring participants but topping the scoreboard in project Heist and wanting to top it more and more. Yup, I’m obsessed with winning. Lol. Ooh and my pod finally winning pod of the week and having our faces plastered on everybody’s status, yeah, my type shii.
But I’m much more grateful for finding bits and pieces of myself. It’s deeper than this few lines but oh how much I’m grateful.
I’m grateful for my friends and acquaintances.
Exhales deeply for this.
I’m not sure if I can do enough justice to this conversation but Thank God really for the people in my corner. Thank God for the people as crazy as me, thank God for the people holding my hands, thank God for the people surronding me.
Thank God!
June was beautiful. The type that’d make you say “Wagwan guys.”
Not that it didn’t come with rollercoasters. For one, I lost my friend and I still think about him every week and I almost cry each time.
I planned things, sat around for those things, did my probable best and still failed like mad.
I went downhill financially. The type of downhill that hits rock bottom and continues going down even though there is no more way to go.
But I’m most grateful for every bit of it. Not because I want to romanticize gratitude or life but because I refuse to underrate the beautiful things in my life because of the despair hanging around. Because I refuse to hand my life over to things that don’t even matter.
It’s July and I purposely planned nothing except one major thing. But whatever happens. JULY WAS INCREDIBLE!
