My Do It Afraid Journey
I started today with enthusiasm, unlike the previous days in this week. My supervisor at my new workplace sent a feedback message this morning after going through the completed manuscript I wrote last night.
In her words, "I must say, you've been doing quite an amazing job"
When I read the message, I felt fulfilled, and a sense of improvement in my new career path. I told my mum, and she seemed happy for me. I resumed work, and my boss said same thing. He encouraged me to put in my best and do better. Excited about these feedbacks, however, I am not willing to relent.
Few hours into work, I decided to take a nap, when I woke up I felt lost staring at my PC this evening. I have few works at hand, with closer deadlines and it looked like the day was moving so fast. I am no longer bothered about how to write, or if whatever I will write will make sense.
My PC is currently on a Low Battery, and I decided to invest this moment on few things. I started a book titled, "Do It Afraid", and I am amazed at how I had this book on my device for 8 months, yet I failed to read it. Orifunke Lawal, the founder of Lady-with-Balls invited Ife Agboola to teach us on the topic, "Do it Afraid", in the month of March this year, after the class Ife decided to share the electronic format of her book with us.
I have read 17pages already, and I never felt like stopping. I only realized I needed to write on a prompt, which was why I had to stop reading. As I glanced through each paragraph and then pages, I realized I had done things afraid this year. At first, I had to call off my relationship of 1 year and 6 months. Barely 4 months later, I decided to quit my nursing job to pick up a writing job. If anyone had told me this was ever going to be possible, I would have argued it out.
I have come to realize we humans want to make some crazy decisions most times, but we are scared of the unknown. I had always nursed the feeling of calling the relationship quit, yet I never had the courage to do it. One day, I got the courage. Same with my job, I have sincerely prayed that God creates for me a platform where I could harness and monetize my writing skills, one day I got the opportunity to do this.
Just like my writing mentor, Damilola Jonathan described his journey into monetizing his writing skills on his Facebook timeline yesterday, he wrote "I poured all of that into my words and people listened, I learned to tie in my work into my stories, I wasn't on social media for the fun"
The 'that' in the quoted sentence meant his struggles, anger and failures. Having been a part of my writing journey, the fact that he quitted his #30,000 monthly salary job with a real estate firm in Warri 3 years ago, to catch the glimpse of what he is now doing today has always inspired me.
Someday, I hope my writing will inspire some persons from this generation and the generation to come.
