The Decisions we Make
For the first time in a long while, I got on a group call with my high school classmates this morning, and after having conversations with them, I got to realize how far a lot of us has come. Now normally, that shouldn't come as a surprise to me, but for some reason, I get amazed everytime I see someone that I used to know as a kid, now as an adult.
Again, that shouldn't be a surprise to me but it's almost as if my brain always chooses to forget this stuff, so it's always a surprise to me when I get reminded everytime of how far we've come, how old we are, and how we're no longer the little kids that we used to be back in the day.
The other day, one of my high-school classmates had gotten married and another friend of ours couldn't stop crying because she too was experiencing the same thing that I was experiencing, the shock of how fast we've all grown.
Suddenly we're at the age where the conversation isn't about video games and doing dumb stuff anymore, but instead we now talk about getting married, starting a family, owning a business and so on. But it doesn't even stop there because I currently also know someone who's currently a politician in the Nigerian government...I didn't even realized we had gotten to that age yet where we get to contest for office in the government lol..
I feel what's wrong is my brain refusing to accept the fact that I'm heading to my late twenties and I'm now in that age where I get to make some real life changing decisions in my life. Funny enough, part of the things I will blame for making me feel this way is the fact that I'm still doing things by the book.
And by the book I mean the calender of life. Many of us don't get to really start our lives until we're done with the calender of life and it shouldn't be so. We shouldn't have to first wait until we're done with primary school, university, NYSC service camp, before finally having that conversation with ourselves on what to do with our life.
Following that step and only focusing on it tend to slow people down without them knowing, because you feel you're busy, but then life has gotten past that stage where you have to be done with school first before doing something else.. You can always multitask or risk falling behind when you're eventually done with the calender and now have to just start figuring your life out.
