A list for the eight

Eight months into the year and I feel great! I started my new year twice this year and I am starting it again today with a list of things that stood out so far this year—mainly things I like and felt.

Found it on Twitter can’t recall the username.

January

• I liked that my sister survived the hospital

• I got medicated glasses

• I bought Mtn 5g Wi-Fi

• I supported my family hugely financially

• My grandma sent me loads of yams

• I saw (Ab😬) 29th January 2024. lol that’s how I saved his name for some weird reasons.

February

• I worked very hard

• I embodied my role of editor

• All I can remember from February is work

• Oh Valentine’s Day was very good. I felt loved

• I celebrated my moms birthday 🥳

• I made progress with passport people and finally discovered he used a wrong number for my NiN

March

• My birthday was splendid

• I was gifted a lot

• I got a plant that has died now mehn. Tee ✨won’t be surprised sha. 😂

• I ticked many things off my lists

• I participated in Easter

• I got my passport mehnn I was so happy!

• I joined a book club and became active

• I saw my friend Giftee after 12 years I think.

April

• April wanted to kill me with pressure

• I saw (Ab😬) on the 25th April. Probably the last time we’d ever see. It felt that way

• I remember the kindness on that day

• April was hard for me asides seeing Ab😬 I cannot remember anything worthwhile

• April book club was sweet

• We lost Pelumi. It was so hard deleting her number from my phone. I didn’t want to be those people messaging or calling numbers of deceased.

May

• I was depressed in May

• Ab😬 lost his mom on May 10th 2024 and I felt pain

• Joie lost her mom too. I am crying as I type this my heart hasn’t healed.

• Good mothers should live forever

• I tried my best to console my friends but I couldn’t translate the emotions in my heart well enough.

• May was so gloomy and I almost lost it.

• I took good pictures of myself. This might have been the hottest eras of my life 😂

• I was just coping how best I could by looking at myself and body through the lens of my camera.

June

• Hospital again

• I took break from work

• I had fun

• I healed

• I was dramatic

• I posted hot pictures almost everyday

• Can’t remember much here asides trying to run from the fact that I am an overfeeler

July

• I liked you a little

• I felt lost

• I got new system

• I cried so much I cried as much as I cried in May in July.

• Every day felt like it was squeezing my heart because I felt lost

• I attended book club

• I went for movies

• Sighs—July was a lot

August

• August I found peace in the chaos

• I sat with myself more

• I sat with my thoughts

• I mapped out a redirection for my life.

• I had fun

• I had a staycation

• I became distant from most of my friends

• I solved problems on my own

• I selectively shared

• I wrote a lot

• I felt myself struggling with money due to poor money decisions like Ajo.

• I suffered for one work like that

• Phew

• I love adulthood sometimes but you see that part where people leave. My human mind struggles with it.

Dear Ab😬 I hope life is easy for you. I hope things work out for you. I hope you get all you want from life.

I send all my love to all Gen Z first borns. I hope we win at this thing called life.

Happy September!

I am trying again this September. I am trying again at my goal of winning 🥇 I am trying again at thriving and not just surviving. I am trying again at loving myself more as I think of those out of my sight for a while.

Dear me, as long as you know where you are coming from never lose sight of what has been achieved and what can be achieved. There’s more to life never give up my babe. I love you! ❤️