Life as it is.

Throughout my journey as an evolving writer, it has become very hard for me to write about something fictional. It's always been an experience that taught me something and at the end of the day, I'm thinking to myself, I need to share this with someone. So here we go.

At the start of this year, most people had a bunch of new year's resolutions listed. So did i but I also wondered, with life normalizing, the economy reopening 2 years after the pandemic, what am I gonna do differently this year about my life?

After a long soliloquy, I promised myself that I am going to place myself in the most uncomfortable places throughout and see how I thrive there.

I am an average basketball player, my aim was to join the biggest basketball team in my division. I am an aspiring writer, content creator, public relations/communications enthusiast. The goal was to actually go after that and pursue it like my life depended on it.

Fast forward, I resigned at a job which was totally in a different field than the one I hoped to pursue.

You must be thinking to yourself, oh Joanne you got guts!

No my dear, I had no guts. The only thing I was sure of then was that I truly wanted to chase my career and I was gonna give it a try no matter what happened.

Throughout the unemployment phase, some mornings got me in high gear to read a book or actually do something valuable. Some other mornings had me beating myself up for the decisions I'd made. Did I make the right decision to quit before finding another job etc. Some other ones had me broke and hopeless.

Well initially, I had a plan, a fully laid out plan. I believed in that plan,and prayed to God about it too hoping that it would work out someday.

(this is part where i give you a happy ending)

The plan didn't work out.

I sat home for 2 months, one would say that's not such a long time in Uganda though. A lot more happened in between. I had regrets

Well, what is growth without all these hurdles?

Real life lessons 101

Just because you have a well laid out step by step plan for your life doesn't guarantee that it will fall in place. That is not discouragement but a reality about life.

One day, you'll have things planned out, going your way and the next, you absolutely have no idea what you're doing, what could have gone wrong, why something happened, what plan B is, when you are totally lost.

I for one am a reader of so many self help books and articles, short books etc but I rarely exercise the lessons in there. This particular experience had me painfully exercise patience, tolerance, resilience, forgiveness and so much.

Status report, I managed to put myself in rooms I'm half qualified for. Now wish me luck as i wing my way at it until i make it

Life is as it comes, we mold our stories by the choices we make, our thoughts and attitude towards life.