All These years: Pressing Forward

My life has taken a different turn for as long as I can remember. Some of those turns weren’t as smooth as I wanted them to be but I’m grateful that I’m still here telling my story. Life has been really inconsistent with the things that I have experienced and have had to deal with. But one thing is certain, there has been great changes and improvements for the past years.

My decision making started a really long time ago and that’s because I’m the first child and I have two younger siblings that I need to look after. My mum wasn’t there to help out as she should and I had to learn the hard way. At first, it was not as hard because my dad shouldered it all. I was just doing the little role of an elder sister. But things got serious when I got into the university. My dad wasn’t getting his pay as he should and things were hard for me in school and at that point, I knew I needed to work to at least help myself out.

Adulthood had set in and I was left with no manual or guidance. I had to figure things on my own. For myself and my siblings too. I was lucky, God helped me through the amazing people around me and that was how I was introduced to online blogging. I didn’t start with hive. I knew different blogging sites before I knew hive and they all helped me. And it was at that point that the massive changes started for me. I saw the much I was benefiting and that was when I introduced my sister to it too so she can also help herself.

Things changed for us. We are no longer struggling as we used to and now, I’m becoming more responsible for my siblings and even my parents. I’m very sure this is one thing my younger self would have thought impossible. At that age, it seemed like no help was coming and we might probably even end up uneducated but that is far from my story today. I’m a graduate and I have also served my country. I have as well gotten the opportunity to learn a few skills that are helping me today as a blogger.

A lot of things are still turning around for me and I think the best is yet to come. Right now, I’m going through a phase that I know will mark another interesting chapter in my life if God wills. There are so many things that has changed that I’m sure my younger self would never had even thought was possible for us. But here I am, feeling grateful and blessed for how things are changing for me and even for my family too.

Today, I’m happy to be the elder sister that I am now which my younger self was probably sacred of. I have heard a lot of people worry about being the first child and all but for some reasons, I feel it is a blessing and I’m grateful for it.