- MONO ME :ALL ‘CONFUSION’ ON ME!
MERH! I don’t feel like eating this ,but I’m hungry too!
OOPS! This blouse doesn’t look fab on me, i can’t wear it to the office; but, what do i wear now?
I didn’t iron my clothes, how am i getting to work on time then?
The rants, kicks, mess, and banter, is a regular phenomenon most adults experience ; from what to wear, to having to wear that black trousers you only figure needs washing an hour to the interview (go figure).
Eventually,you figure something out ,all by yourself.
Yes ! You, just you.
But these are decisions that ought to be taken in the spur of the moment.
So, what happens if you have to decide on a much more life-defining issue like making a career choice.
Many of the actions and decisions one takes is based on ‘mono-convos’.
Oh, you asking what that is?
So here i am, waking up everyday of my life, with no plan on what career to pursue.
With constant reminders and conversations, which only points to the fact that i have no plan!
They: That story was beautiful.
Inner me: But people have done better?
They: You write beautifully.
Inner me : That crap! You have no idea how long it took me to write that, nor how many times i erased the things i wrote.
PS: This write-up very much included, thank you.
They: You’ll make an amazing journalist.
Inner me: You don’t say! I struggle to develop and WRITE my stories!
Everyday of my life, i ask myself what i want to do, with no response.
I prayed, and i’m still praying( I do not want to believe God hasn’t heard or answered me).
I do not want to continue practicing as a journalist, because, i just do not see myself being one. I mean, i did’t even know what they did on television, radio and in the newspapers was journalism .
I only realized it was journalism when i enrolled in journalism school.(Which was one the decisions ‘they’ took for me, and not by mono-me)
I am here, with an opportunity of a personal assistant, and another option of now applying to get a job as a journalist.
Someone said to me this morning, ‘oh, so you abandoned journalism?’, and it got me thinking.
Then another said, you know, i was exactly where you were ten years ago.
Me(Out loud): I hope to be you, and more in ten years to come then.
Her: I hope so too, start planning where you want to be in ten years and pray towards it.
Me:( Out loud): Okay, thank you.
Inner me: How can i plan when i don’t even know what profession to pursue, but i’ll be great though.
Here comes a mono-convo moment, ‘am i a journalist?, what do i want to pursue as a profession?
And BOOM! I got a response!
Me(OUT LOUD):I want to be a professional WORKER!
Therefore, today i make the biggest decision of my life.
I choose the career, and profession called WORK.
Whatever opportunity life throws at me called work, i’ll do.
I have no game plan!
No outline!
Neither do i know how this will pan out.
But CONVICTION,that is what i have.
Therefore, with the strongest conviction,I will just work!
Regardless of whatever venture it is, just listen to the mono-YOU, and RUN with it.
END
PS: I did not mean to write this, but for the sake of the unborn generation,YOU and MYSELF(In exactly 10 years today), i did.

