IN THE SPIRIT OF THANKSGIVING...

Thank God it's Fridaaaaay!!!!... YIPPPEEEE!!!!! 

Of course, i'm joking...i'm EXCITEEEED!!!!

 

       I'ts been an awesome week and i've sure got loads to tell you but first, let me start by saying i missed talking to you. It's been a heck of a long time...my sincere apologies. 

Yesterday marked the National Thanksgiving Celebration in America  and i couldn't help but think about Gratitude....I sure have a lot to be grateful for and i know you do too...in fact, if you can read this blog post,then you do have a lot to be thankful for. 

First, you are alive, second you've got eyes to see, third, you are literate and most importantly, you've got access to internet and technology. Honey, better start celebrating!

And i'm not talking about just now cos it's the season of Thanksgiving but all through the rest of the year and far beyond. 

This Spirit of Thanksgiving has surely caught up with me as I delve into reminiscence and remember my school years, way back when,like it was yesterday.

 I had always been an exceptionally bright kid,not necessarily in the fact that I excelled at school work but mostly because I had a very sharp wit that came with a quick mind. 

I always caught the joke first!

 Had absolutely no patience for local tv as they had nothing stimulating to offer(I remember an old friend who we teased a lot then because of her fondness for home videos, that we would find her one day sitting in front of the tv watching one of those kind of movies with a washed out look on her face and her brain fluid dripping from her ears....lol).

 I even hardly hung out with people. I could sniff their shallowness from afar...except for the meager extraordinary  super-humans like me who could match me wit for wit.

 I had(still have) so many passions and dreams.

 I loved to sing,dance,act,write,paint,teach...

I loved fashion,cosmetology,cinematography,poetry,art,travel,psychotherapy...

I felt like I could do anything or be anything I wanted to be!

 I never thought that I would work a day in my life for anyone,doing a regular 9-5 job like mere mortals.

As a matter of fact,I expected the world to spread open its arms to me,enclosing me in a warm,longing embrace,whispering sweet nothings in my ear of how it has yearned for my fabulous self and all the awesomeness within me that I had to offer.....

Was I in for a rude awakening! 

Unemployment punched me in the face like a Mohammed Ali left-hook,leaving a shattered ego and a bloody nose in its wake.

 All my business start-ups upped and left as trial and error and near-successes became my reality.

 Lack crept upon me like an armed bandit!

 Fast forward to a few years later,with countless detours and unexpected routes... and a curriculum vitae filled with so many odd jobs,none ever exceeding 3 months(I always fell ill after the 1st week at a job).

Now,I am grateful for all those jobs I hated so much because they are the necessary stepping stones to THE job i love.

 In the words of a wise man (my Pastor), "do what you don't like now so that you can eventually do what you like". 

The eternally eloquent best selling author, Wayne Dyer puts it succinctly, and I quote "There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen" . 

So here I am, allowing the misery and confusion to motivate me rather than discourage me,lighting a fire within me to discover and relentlessly pursue what I truly love while being grateful all the way.

 Though it may tarry,I will wait for it...surely,I will wait...with an attitude of gratitude!

Till next Friday my dearest blog-lings (my own coinage of blog darlings*wink), remain fabulous with an unquenchable thirst for life... Mwaaah!!!