PEACE, BALANCE AND EXPERIENCE

I stumbled upon this on Instagram, usually I will skip, but not this time, it was important for me to get a message. My first three words were "peace", "balance" and "experience". Not unsurprisingly, they aptly sum up my being presently.

After I finished Law School, the next step was to start planning my service year, I was precise about my choice location as many others. If it wasn't Lagos then it had to be Abuja. So I began to put in the works to find a reputable law-firm that will be willing to take me in if either scenario was to play out. As fate would have it, I got posted to Ogun State and believe me when I say I never "experred it". I was blank for a couple of days, I had no contingency plan for Ogun, there was no back up! So I went to camp reluctantly, just get it out of the way I told myself, God always sorts you.

Fast forward when posting to place of Primary Assignment was to commence and I began to search for a prospective good place to work at. I did find one given the short search but it didn't work out. So I began to shift focus back to Lagos, maybe I can wing this thing, work in Lagos and "ghost" this thing. For those who don't know the term, "ghosting" service refers to a situation where you are illegally not undergoing the youth service personally, but able to evade it thanks to some corruption in the system and no one knows. So I began to think frankly about this and even began to make plans towards this but if it fails, I had to have a back up plan here in Ogun. All the while, my head and my mind was all over the place, there was no contentment of purpose, there was no resolve, I was literally all over the place. My Lagos plan was looking good, my contingency plan for Ogun was also solid. I got a text that requested me to come for a meeting at one of the Lagos firms I had applied to, and right there and then, I knew that wasn't the goal for the time being anymore, the plan was taking too much of my usual logical and reasonable self. I decided I didn't want to pursue that option anymore, I will stay here in Ogun and see how it pans out. Finally, I was at PEACE, the purpose for the year never clearer than at that moment.

On the first day of this year, I made a conscious decision to start my own  blog; not because it was the trendy thing to do; if it was, then I would have been in it longer than now. I also knew I wanted to practice as a Lawyer, God forbid all of that torture I put myself through in school go to waste. I will commence work on January 9th as a Lawyer at my Place of Primary Assignment and I am eager but not distraught as to how I will find my BALANCE, but I look forward to how this journey goes.

EXPERIENCE in what form? Is it that which i have gathered over the years or the one I shall have this year. This word speaks so deeply to me as I have often engaged in a number of things never knowing what the final destination will be. Is the moment telling me that it is finally time to put all of it to use or to start afresh? On this I am conflicted, but I am patient to see what this seemingly ordinary image from WeddingDigestNigeria is telling me.

Perhaps we should begin to pay attention to the ordinary things around us speaking to us. Who knows what we have been overlooking in days of the past. What are the first three words you see and what do they mean to you?

Love,

Mo.