Happy New Year: What I’m Thankful For

It is that time of the year again. A time when mortals run over themselves to make New Year resolutions they have no intention of following up. For years I have religiously observed this ritual. I can’t quite comprehend why I did it or why mortals saw it proper to come up with resolutions beyond their reach if only for the satisfaction of it. Whatever the reason is, I have made up my mind not to make any more resolutions. I am going to live on impulse and to be spontaneous as I have always been. All these resolutions and promises have put me into a quagmire I can’t get myself from. That notwithstanding, I beg to digress.

 

Being the last day of the year 2014, I don’t want to dwell too much on the misses, the tribulations, the pains, the near achievements or the lost opportunities. On the contrary, I want to be thankful for events, people and circumstances that made it worthwhile. First and foremost, I want to be thankful for the gift of life bestowed upon me by God. It has been an eventful year full of up and downs but am grateful that am alive today. I have been through dark times, I have faced fear in all its forms and I am grateful that I’m alive today.

The very fact that i am breathing and in one piece is something to be grateful for. Secondly, I am thankful for the support and care of one woman with the heart of God “Yonas”. A great woman with nobility of character and innocence. She has been by my side through it all and never at one time did she leave my side. I couldn’t pull through without her immense love; support and never say die attitude. Her constant reassurance, words of encourage and love that knows no bounds is the reason I have managed to be where I am today. Even though I have come short or haven't reciprocated enough, I will forever be indebted to her.

Thirdly, am grateful to my parents and family. They have shown me what true love and sacrifice is throughout 2014. I am thankful for the time they have sacrificed, for the comfort they have sacrificed, for the resources they have sacrificed just to see me on my feet and smiling again. I could never repay that love with any material thing on earth. Yes, I know I can be difficult at times but their love always reminds me of what it means to be family. Should I lose the war, I will go in peace in the knowledge that they tried their best.

Fourthly, I am thankful to the few friends who keep checking up on me and putting a smile on my face even though they have been in the dark of the prevailing situation all through. Those who took their time for a moment to drop me an email just to say hi and those who constantly visited my home wondering where I disappeared to. I appreciate the love, the care and the support.

I am thankful for Agnes and the entire Jupiter fraternity. Her great leadership skills, patience and hard work have seen Jupiter grow every single day in our absence.  A simple thank you is not good enough but it’s an extension of my heartfelt appreciation. I pray that God may bless you abundantly and that you may never lack. 

There are so many things am thankful for but which I can’t exhaust by jotting down to paper. I hope that the tribulations of 2014 will come to an end when this year comes to a close. I look forward to a 2015 full of promise, prosperity and good tidings. To those I might have wronged directly or indirectly I seek for forgiveness. Let’s start the New Year on a clean slate and let’s start this journey ahead with peace of mind, love and forgiveness. I sign off for now. Happy New Year everyone. May all your hearts desire come to fruition in the coming New Year J.

An Angel Came Along……………….

Some men scour the depths of the world to find that very person that gives them purpose to live, a shoulder so big and soft to lean on. I don’t know about you and quite frankly I disregard your opinions pronto. The 20 something years I have been in existence has taught me more than what I could have anticipated in another life. A few years back, if you told me that there were angels in human form I would be the first to scoff at your ignorance and seemingly blurred way of thinking. Don’t get me wrong, am not about to increase your levels of disdain for me by insisting that there are some humans who are actually angels. On the contrary, I wish to take you to a different line of thought; one skewed towards a once in a lifetime experience as opposed to the largely held views of the masses.

I had an accidental and chance meeting with an angel in the form of a human being; a woman of character, intelligence, poise, beautiful heart and above all, the most amazing woman I have ever crossed path with. Don’t get me wrong, I would repeat the same words even if a gun were pointed on my head. I don’t know at what point or instance I became this lucky. All I know is that every aspect of my life changed the moment she walked through the doors of my life. Something clicked in me, I was reborn anew, I felt happiness first hand and the very meaning of true friendship had a new definition in my life. I have always believed in the mantra that things happen for a reason; that nothing in this world happens in a vacuum. 

I don’t know why it had to be now, or why it had to be yesterday or whether I have to constantly live with my life long held fears. What I know beyond any reasonable doubt is that I have had a chance to taste true happiness, to spend time with someone who is simply out of this world, a beautiful heart, an amazing companion, the very definition of true happiness. To some, this might just be someone drunk with love talking. They don’t fathom how a person could be so brutally honest about a mere mortal. To them, these are signs of a sycophant of love, the very antithesis of reason.

To me, someone I am easy to be with, someone I don’t have to live a lie with, someone I can tell anything without having to think of the proper way of doing it, someone I can be someone more like myself with is my ultimate companion. I have been through some really difficult moments, moments that defy logic, moments that make ordinary mortals desert you and pass a death sentence on you. I have been at the lowest, I have wanted to give up many a times, I have been distant but she has always been there despite all my faults, my fears, my hallucinations and sometimes utter stupidity. She has exhibited the kind of love you don’t find in mere mortals, the kind of support you read in fictional books, and the kind of encouragement you only find in scriptures. She has literary gone beyond expectation and defied every reasonable thing I have ever held. 

I dare say again she is an angel: not because of her looks, her adorable smile or her infectious smile. She is an angel because her very existence personifies something out of the ordinary, something amazing and beautiful, something worth everything, something you don’t get every day. Yonas is her name-a great woman.