I hated my house so much that I would only stay at home when I was financially strained. During that period, I mostly stayed indoors and somehow I’ve been in the same house for over three months now. Today, I turned on my generator and switched on the living room AC. I was about to ask my two visitors, who were in separate rooms to do the same since the generator was running as we had been on inverter. As I took a closer look at the sofa in my living room that I had hated so much, it got me thinking. I took some time to reflect on my life journey and discovered that many of the things I now dislike were once the very things I fervently prayed and cried for every night, hoping to achieve. I went through a lot last year, I lost my elder brother and his pregnant wife and I had to single-handedly pay her dowry. I was on drugs every single day from January of last year until last month and one day I nearly passed away from overdose. Then I decided to go off social media, lock myself up for weeks without smoking or alcohol and I can proudly say that I’m now free from all my trauma and anxiety by the grace of God.

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