A Time To Pretend

Isma'il
Isma'il
Aug 28, 2017 · 2 min read

I do this every night, usually at 12 am. I pretend to be a different person. Tonight I’m pretending to be a writer. Join me by pretending to be avid readers.

This Year Has Been A Roller Coaster

I’m learning a lot — mostly by doing. Looking at the time stamps now, I see lots of progress. This proves that I can be more, but most importantly that I am enough. I have a lot more confidence in my skills and I am not afraid to try new things .

I recently designed a poetry book; I’ve moved from designing solely for print to designing for screens; I draw cartoons to entertain myself when I’m bored, make paintings of people to opt out of buying them gifts (yes if I’ve ever gifted you a portrait of yourself it’s because I couldn’t think of a gift); and take pictures of random objects and everyone that’s willing to pose. I also participated in a group exhibition — my first exhibition — it was a nice feeling.

I recently started designing with code, mostly because Onyekachi won’t do my website for free and Dara Olayebi won’t do it at all 👀. So far, it has been an enlightening experience and I realized I had spent too much time learning and too little time actually writing code. But thankfully, I went in blind and the results so far have been positively messy (the copy on the about page is banging — or that’s what I’ve been told).

I have friends … too many … so many that my contact list is looking like a social media platform, but I’m not complaining — I’m thankful for all of them. I hope I have impacted them as positively as they have impacted me. My friends are a pool of inspiration and sometimes they are the subjects of my social experiments. Special thanks to the ones that sit still for my sketching practice. I promise to start replying texts and calls in less than 5 days.

Ah Family, family is everything! I’m thankful for all the investments — the ones that have failed and the ones that are yielding returns. Someday I’d like to host a family gathering and surprise everyone with little painting presents. Look within your family, they’re the closest society you have, the one that matters the most.

I’m at peace and I can’t put my finger on why, but I’m in a happy place. It’s a mix of luck and work.

It’s a lot of God.

Tonight I’m staying awake till tomorrow because tomorrow is a new year.

This is me pretending to be an introspective writer …

In retrospect I think I wrote this backward and you should read it from the bottom if you can.

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