Burrito & shawarma kind of year

My Spotify wrap told me Asake was my top artist for the year. I was a part of the 0.01% listeners for the year.

On my YouTube music wrap they told me I was the top 1% listeners of Stromae and 0.01% listener for Silmane. The French music, Kompa, and Kizomba music won on YT music. YT music summed my year as wild, loved up, giddy, etc.

Spotify said my music taste changed from cool pop music girl to Afro girl. Asake and Rema were holding me down.

I visited my 2024 mood board and I can say I lived up to the vibe.

• I joined a physical book club and it brought life to my months.

• I read 100 books this year it enriched my mind so well. I am happy.

• I wanted to be flown and I was, four times this year.

• I bought cool handbags. There’s a cute one I am yet to open self. Quality.

• I wore so much pink on my eyes, bedsheets and clothes. It felt so good to be the opposite of my emotions in the physical. My mindset helped me a lot this year. There’s so much to say that by writing a book each chapter might be like 10k words. So much. ❤️

• I wanted to stay true to my fashion style. I didn’t really have a style before just wore anything I wanted to wear. I wore crocs and could even wear crocs to wedding ceremonies. Until a friend of mine and her friend jokingly told me, “you wear crocs everywhere mehn,” I decided to try on alternate footwear. For my style, I remember when I showed up for a date with my friend and she looked me up and down in a way that showed she wasn’t impressed with what I wore. It didn’t hurt me or anything but those looks were becoming consistent even with strangers. I switched it up. Went for comfort in my style. As long as the colors and material vibes with me i will wear it and accessorize to my best ability. This way I stayed true to my taste.

• Did more solo dates this year and visited different places and tried various cocktails, mocktails, and menu boldly. I didn’t go for a concert, and I didn’t go bowling. But I did everything else I wanted to do.

• I found love in anendlessocean music.

• I didn’t work for nothing. I worked to be fulfilled.

• I registered my company VVYNLETTERS. It is left how I will push it. My five clients had acceptance each into respective schools. I loved it. The only thing I didn’t love was the payment. I felt underpaid but I packed value for the next stage.

• I fell in love and I was loved in a way that makes your heart sing. It is so blissful to be loved. Oh Chim I am blushing writing this mehn. But the heartaches that came with it, made me lose 5kg in two weeks. 😂😂😂😂

• Some people said I was not a good friend. Most said I was—like I always say, it is all an experience. Good and bad alike. I accept my roles wholeheartedly and hope the gods that be do not intertwine my lane with those who do not want to be in my lane.

• Somehow I and my mom had that conversation and she promised me that she would try to be more understanding of my hurt and pains. We will give ourselves graces as we do life. It was a beautiful conversation for us last week. Although it ended with her pleading for a grandchild. 😂😂 told her to pray harder and she is actually praying. 🤲🏾

• I was hot January to November oh. This December I do not know but something in the air keeps making me sick. How can I be a hot girl with dust allergies in dust season?

• I made new friendsssss

• My sister started school and it growing little by little.

• I loved myself so much and I wrote a lot.

• I learned so much.

• I doubled my savings, I invested in stocks, and lost good money too.

• I attended a feminist conference this year in July. It was amazing to contribute to the gap in of gender equality—an SDG goal this year.

• I pray god keeps me alive for more in 2025.

To my friends.

I wish you all a love so true that even Cupid gets jealous. I wish you global recognition on big platforms and support you never doubt. I wish more gigs and success my babes. I wish you clarity and the strength to grab your goals by the bulls horn. You’ll thrive.

Now to you reading this

I don’t know what you need to do in your life to make a difference and change the course of things do it!

Go back to school, work on your character, start that business, get that degree, move cities if you must, whatever it is do it.

If you are always on the run like me, try to find your pockets of joy outside of activities you’d normally not do.

I spent time with myself a lot this year and one thing I will take with me into 2024 is that, in any uncomfortable situation, I will take the blame as the bad person. I learned this from the movie “The Trunk.” Once I have accepted that I am the bad person I do not bother why people moved the way they did with me or why someone cheated me or why someone needed to move miles away from me.

There’s no reward in suffering anything for long. There’s none. There’s reward in consistency and persistence. It is why the top is few and the down is a lot.

Next year begins a journey. A brave one. I carry with me a refreshed mind of a winner woman. I did good work this year. I will do more next year and thrive.

My mind is open to the endless possibilities that be in 2025. Let yours too be open.

I do not know what you may have faced this year but fear is just you crippling your potential. Don’t let fear win. We will all make this money and enjoy life as well. Keep pushing keep trying. If I can look like the below today it is just because I never stopped pushing. My throwback to year 2020 will have you swearing that my deadline on Earth is close.

I survived that to survive a hit and run accident in 2021. I was in coma for 3 days and my mom kept crying. I awoke with bruises I still have till date. Complication on my left knee and right elbow.

My life has been a metamorphosis of various parts of me becoming pretty butterflies 🦋 from ugly worms 🐛

So if I say believe belief.

Thanks for reading my random thoughts. For some reason I am called to attend Shiloh, this year—dragged by my friend actually.. I might just do it and see. Sending each one of you who continue to read me virtual hugs. 🫂❤️