Musings
This is where random thoughts and experiences which I have are shared.
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2023: Year in Review
To properly summarise the year, I'd have to talk about the year in its entirety, beyond my observations. Since I'm pressed for time, I'll compress this into 2 parts - work and life. It feels ironic though, because work is a big part of our life which makes compartmentalising work and life feel weird. But let's allow this categorisation so this post doesn't delve into a different realm.
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Maintaining the pose of Thanksgiving
I wrote this up in the notes app on my phone in early March but just getting around to posting it. A lot has happened since then and all my grand plans for the year haven’t exactly gone to plan but I am grateful to still be able to maintain a pose of Thanksgiving regardless. . . . On the morning that I shared the ‘testimony’ about my YouTube premium subscription, I was on a train going somewhere. After posting, I got on a call with one of my egbons. It was a long overdue call and I thought I could just take it on the train. But we somehow…
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New year resolutions: the role of serendipity
Ever so often, we lay down ambitious plans, charting our pathways to get to where we envision ourselves. This is particularly so for very ambitious people - you see the end goal you want and you lay years-long plans to accomplish it. What most of us fail to account for is serendipity, luck, chance and the complete randomness of life. I'll use my current career path as a case study. Come with me.
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The Gift of People – we all need this
I wrote the above post because I genuinely was hopeful at that point that everything will work out. It is still 'fascinating' how the 180 happened.
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Friendships that hold you up
If you have been following my posts since after February of this year, you’d know that the year has been the ghetto. As much as I’ve tried to hold on and make it through it all as the power to move forward lies primarily with me, I’ve had to rely A LOT on my friends. I wrote earlier in the year about building great friendships and being grateful for having great friends. Little did I know that I would need them intensely in this phase of my life. So, this post is dedicated to my friends who have held me up in these times. I initially wanted to list out…
