Hurray It’s my Birthday: 36 course in 36 years

MM full of anticipation

I am glad to have made it to 36! At some point in my teenage, l kept feeling l’ll leave this world at 33! Not that l didn’t like life, but l felt it didn’t like me and l was doing so much to get it to accommodate me! Well, I didn’t but my Gaby did, while I had tried to let myself out at age 30! Anyway, you readers can thus understand why my 35th Anniversary message here was this emotional.

And so on this day when l celebrate my 3rd bonus year (from 33 you know) or my 6th (from the suicide attempt), permit me to share with you blogging pals the main courses l have taken so far, the lessons learnt and those I still ponder about:

The jittery Pupil

1. It isn’t the absence of fights that mean there’s peace;
2. Being a dad on the parlour sofa does not make you one for your kids;
3. Pushing trauma to the back of your mind doesn’t mean it’ll go away or even stay just there;
4. Your crowd largely reflects you or some big part of: I have met and liked the good, the bad and the ugly;
5. A smile can mean you are appreciated, envied or simply wished vanished;

   

   A pupil on a permanent internship in the school of life (hope the cute boil on my nose produces a wink)

6. You have a right to choose your friends;
7. Mental illness is for real and it can take all shapes and forms, and even visits celebrity & royalty;
8. Love truly lies in the hands of the beholder;
9. You either stand your ground or get trampled upon;
10. Regardless of the above, humility is one great virtue;
11. Sometimes it’s so hard to pick up a mirror cause the reflection could as well be too bright enough to blind you;
12. It’s not how fast you skip through formal education, it is how far your survive in the informal school;
13. Illusions are mostly what make the world go round;
14. The more unconventional it is, the more appealing it could sometime be;
15. We are ere past the inquisition – I put Faith, Hope and Charity on the same lane; I refuse to align behind any Religion;
16. knowing how to spell a word today doesn’t mean you’ll always know how to spell the same word;
17. Nothing permanently binds a pauper to that pauperhood;
18. Nothing permanently guarantees a millionaire his millions;
19. Insurance is simply business built on fear, but a good one nonetheless;
20. Some keep their troubles to themselves while others just can’t keep their troubles to themselves: that’s equally democracy;
21. There indeed can be miracles when you believe – yet it is and should rightly be a choice;
22. If you truly can’t adapt, stop trying and move on – one day your visit here below will be unilaterally terminated, for you would have outlived any purpose;

    

    Plain Me

23. It’s a 6/6 hole for all so I am made to believe;
24.  Were really all men born of a woman? I still ponder!;
25. Are boys better than girls or does it really matter?;
26. What the heck did pigmentation think when it was leaving some bodies devoid of protection?;
27. Must medication have side effects?;
28. I once thought a second was the smallest unit of time, how limited was my imagination?;
29. Either grow up, think global and act local or remain in your mother’s eggs;
30. An ocean of knowledge is how l now see it, and the journey across takes a lifetime;
31. Who do you wanna be? The option is to face that now or latter when it may as well be too late!;
32. How would you know how you are remembered? That could give me more incentive;
33. I had thought by now l should be immune to pain;
34. My future is indeed behind me, it is those 3 boys who call me mama;

    

    The gentlemen in my life

    

    For them I thrive amidst my challenges

    it is all the school girls l campaign for; it is all the boys l advocate to treat their sisters in all equity and equality;

35. There are just two words that change it all to unlucky, unhappy, unimportant…;

    

    My memoir

36. Baring myself in my memoir was the most dreadful thing l did to my family, the most therapeutic thing l did for myself, and an amazing thing l did for the community.

× The bonus is – l found love, at last deep within me! It’s ok not to have a man or any one validate you, it’s ok to have ‘me’ time, it’s ok to follow your inner GPS, and sure while we’re still at it, it’s ok to have some fun!!!

And you gentle readers and followers, do you mind sharing any of your lessons or leaving a comment on one of mine? Come on now, that’s the only birthday present I humbly ask of you 🙂