2010
Finally! 2010 is here. For Nigeria, we had a Vision 2010. Whatever happened to that? Oh, It's now Vision 2020. Oh well, at least we are awake to the reality of our "goal-post moving" nation.
Remember the series "Space 1999"? How wrong could they have been? The future was supposed to be filled with flying vehicles (the kin accident wey go dey happen no go get part 2 o!), bubble covered cities, inter-galactic travel and inter-stellar conflicts. Well, cars are yet to fly, bubbles are still coming out of kiddie toys and inter-anything travel is still restricted to slogans on the sides of the danfo, coaster and hybrid buses you see on the highways!
And, imagine the number of resolutions made in sober and drunk moments at the turn of the year. And, six days into the new year, how many of those resolutions are no longer resolutions but are now "something-I-will-do-next-year-God-willing" items? Or how many of them are even remembered? I don't make resolutions - they just leave you feeling defeated, embarrassed and ashamed of your total lack of discipline!
So, as usual, I have no resolutions this year. I have not "resolved" to do anything. I do have a list I made in 2005 that is old, wrinkled and the writing barely discernible - it was written in pencil. I have crossed off a few things on that list because they have either been achieved or I deemed them unrealistic or not feasible - like the "win $270million by the year 2006". Obviously, THAT did NOT happen! Or "be a UK dress size 6 by the time I'm 40". Well, I'll be 42 in 10 months, addicted to dark chocolate and Godiva hot chocolate drink and let's just say size 6 is something I was not even as a skinny thirteen year old!
There are others I have achieved - I am SLIGHTLY nicer; I am a better person; I find it a TEENY WEENY bit easier to forgive (I am working on it, people!!) and I do a lot more of the stuff I enjoy.
Unfortunately, I am still the obstinate, selfish, self-centered person I used to be - and that's something I work really hard at!!! Heh heh heh!!! And for all those people who are going to say I am not, remember that I do not do anything that is not beneficial to me in the long run!!
I am glad that I still have most of the people I love alive and well and in my life - I have lost two very dear people in the last 3 years, but, God knows best.
My family - immediate and extended - has grown. God has performed major miracles in my life that have made the word 'impossible' disappear from my vocabulary. My life has defied logic and that has been the best prayer I never made or said.
What do I want to achieve in 2010 and beyond? Happiness, contentment and above all, a communion with my Creator.
May your 2010 be truly blessed.
Remember the series "Space 1999"? How wrong could they have been? The future was supposed to be filled with flying vehicles (the kin accident wey go dey happen no go get part 2 o!), bubble covered cities, inter-galactic travel and inter-stellar conflicts. Well, cars are yet to fly, bubbles are still coming out of kiddie toys and inter-anything travel is still restricted to slogans on the sides of the danfo, coaster and hybrid buses you see on the highways!
And, imagine the number of resolutions made in sober and drunk moments at the turn of the year. And, six days into the new year, how many of those resolutions are no longer resolutions but are now "something-I-will-do-next-year-God-willing" items? Or how many of them are even remembered? I don't make resolutions - they just leave you feeling defeated, embarrassed and ashamed of your total lack of discipline!
So, as usual, I have no resolutions this year. I have not "resolved" to do anything. I do have a list I made in 2005 that is old, wrinkled and the writing barely discernible - it was written in pencil. I have crossed off a few things on that list because they have either been achieved or I deemed them unrealistic or not feasible - like the "win $270million by the year 2006". Obviously, THAT did NOT happen! Or "be a UK dress size 6 by the time I'm 40". Well, I'll be 42 in 10 months, addicted to dark chocolate and Godiva hot chocolate drink and let's just say size 6 is something I was not even as a skinny thirteen year old!
There are others I have achieved - I am SLIGHTLY nicer; I am a better person; I find it a TEENY WEENY bit easier to forgive (I am working on it, people!!) and I do a lot more of the stuff I enjoy.
Unfortunately, I am still the obstinate, selfish, self-centered person I used to be - and that's something I work really hard at!!! Heh heh heh!!! And for all those people who are going to say I am not, remember that I do not do anything that is not beneficial to me in the long run!!
I am glad that I still have most of the people I love alive and well and in my life - I have lost two very dear people in the last 3 years, but, God knows best.
My family - immediate and extended - has grown. God has performed major miracles in my life that have made the word 'impossible' disappear from my vocabulary. My life has defied logic and that has been the best prayer I never made or said.
What do I want to achieve in 2010 and beyond? Happiness, contentment and above all, a communion with my Creator.
May your 2010 be truly blessed.
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