Looking back into
the year 2020, I can only keep thanking God for getting into another year.
Another year that we do not know if anything will look any different, any
brighter. 2020 has been tough, tiresome, full of cries, laughter in between it
all but all in all I have survived and seen a new year.
The past year was a year full of hope and great
visions. I was to graduate on 13th November 2020, I never did for reasons that
I do not even know how to start. I fell ill, was hospitalized, and thank God I
came out strong. I fell in love, gained new friends, and lost some. It is a year
I lost my laptop just days to my master's degree defense. Ooh, that was
traumatizing. I added pills onto my daily schedule and I thank God am healthy
and well.
It is a year that I viewed people who seemed to
care not caring at all. Love went down the lane at some point. I was so angry
at life, not because of COVID-19, no because what I wished for did not go as
planned. And there is where I truly saw that my plans are indeed not God's
plans. It is a year I waited for great responses, only to get disappointed. It
was on all avenues of my life, family, school, and work.
It is also a year that God opened doors, avenues
that seemingly still existed got real to me. I started benefiting from it all. God,
you have been so good to me. Now that phrase was the reverse when things were
sour to me.
This year, I started saving, I learned that Sacco’s
are great. Portion by portion of my earnings I put aside. It has been a year
where I have learned that I need to say NO and mean it. You do not have to keep
pleasing people.
2020 has been a year where the internet has been
a great resource for me. The internet is everything in this day and age. I
would say the much I have achieved and gained so far is through the internet.
The year 2020 began with a lowkey of getting a regret response of not getting a
government internship. I had gone for the interview at Kasarani stadium, with
over 4000 graduates’ interviewees. Ooh yes, they were all qualified but just
1500 got the opportunities, and 2500 had to keep walking.
Life is not that easy. There were people with
masters' degrees and even PhDs or those who had just enrolled in their Ph.D.
studies. I, later on, was called into a parastatal for a 6month internship
opportunity. This position I had been interviewed for in June 2019, but see God
they remembered me just when I had missed another opportunity. I worked under
the Communication and PR division there and later applied for an extra 6
months, but got 2 more months and was out by October 2020.
Just before I exited the parastatal positions, I
was saving up and registered my own company, Teri Solutions Limited, and also
went ahead and got an All-Government Procurement Opportunity (AGPO) certificate
under the Youth category. It was a move that my brother encouraged me to try
out and besides I needed to stay busy and find an opportunity after leaving the
parastatal position. I had also done a gig with AJIRA
Digital for content creation and was waiting for continuous calls from
it.
The past year has been a year where I have
risked it all, and ooh I will keep risking. The person I worked with at AJIRA Digital later emailed me at the end of October just when
my laptop was gone via theft to work with him. I had to ask him, to bear with
me till my defense was done and I got another laptop. God is great, I was able
to get another laptop and this virtual job has been amazing.
I want to end this article as we wind up 2020,
to encourage you that sees life as a downhill, not to give up. It's time you
dust yourself up. Wipe your tears and put on that smile. Keep doing what you
are done and stay positive. The journey is just beginning. Over half a decade I
stayed unemployed, I thought God was done with me. I have cried, no one would
ever understand the pain. The family especially my mum has stood by me but God
has kept me going.
You have to be your cheerleader, do it like
there is no tomorrow. Psych yourself up and always see yourself going up.
People laugh but hey it's your life, not theirs. The greatest mistake you can
ever make is to give up. Just NEVER GIVE UP IN 2021 and the coming years. Keep
your hope alive.
Happy New Year To You All!
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