It's My Kobe Year!

Happy birthday to me. Friendly reminder that I'm not your furking mate.

Apr 02, 2024

Wagwan homeboys and girlies! Guess what day is it today? Hehe. It's the day my parents said I was born (because if they said it was another day, what would I do?)

But hey, it's World Damilola's Day!

It's a new chapter in my life and I am kind of excited, to be honest. More like enthusiastic for what's going to come. Reflecting on my past 23 years, it's been a tough one. Not to deny the good days. I've had Ls back to back, but look who's still marching forward. Because what are Ls compared to Ws Sky Daddy has prepared?

But I have always been a fighter. And if it's one thing I prayed for, is to be strong during rough times, that my faith is continuously strengthened despite the odds. Even though my relationship with God has been inconsistent, he has kept me strong to face life head-on, navigating through.

Unfortunately for the devil, my dreams are too big for me to give up now. So I'm going to see to the very end that they're achieved.

Although weeks ago, I wasn't excited about turning a new age. Don't get me wrong, birthdays are supposed to be special, and if you want to be loud about it, you've got every liberty to. But for me, I haven't had memorable ones for most of the birthdays, and I guess that's why I'm usually not hyper. Thank God for friends who cheer me up with wishes and messages. And so it seemed like this year's was going to reflect the same. Just like a random day. Part of the feeling stemmed from the expectations of turning a new age, being the firstborn, things needed to be done and the ones not done yet.

But I'm learning not to give myself that pressure since I entered this ghetto called adulthood. Because it's only one life I have.

But then, there are days you look forward to certain dreams.

I still have a long way to go but I'm grateful for how far I've come. I'm living in the phase I earnestly prayed for(not exactly but it still counts). God's plans are better than mine, after all. Which is why I'm going to embrace my life moving forward. You could probably sense from my last letter how I have been. But even though the higher the level, there's a devil, I'm going to embrace the uncertainty it brings.

Besides, if God be for me, who goes that man?

Woulda titled this my year of uncertainty. But it's my Kobe year still. One that sees me grow and mature. My embracing the uncertainty is not to say I'll be clueless and work without a purpose, but to find purpose in my everyday life. To live in what the future brings. To live in a garden full of roses, knowing that even roses have turns. So yeah, there's power in uncertainty. There's power in knowing that your life could change in a split second but still choosing to live in it.

Yes, this is it. And with this, I'm excited and enthusiastic about what the future holds. It's going to be a long ride, but I pray it's one of my best years yet.

'cause even though…