POSITIVES

So I should have given you guys a warning not to get used to me writing because im not so consistent with things. I might just not be available as and when you want and it will end up breaking your precious heartsL...

Please it’s not so bad with me... I think my inconsistency is mainly due by my tight schedule.

Anyway we would talk about consistency on another day, for today there is this very inspirational piece I wants to share with you all:

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A little over a month ago, a very close friend of mine J shared this with me and was like Ajiffa I want us to try this.

Well for reasons I would refuse to mention :P I gladly jumped at the idea without even thinking about what it would really entail in the long run…

I can however honestly say today that over one month down the line I have become increasingly interested in doing this day by day.

I was actually going to post this on Sunday 10^th November to mark exactly one month since we started doing POSITIVES but then aaaaAAArrrGGGGhhh!!  Arsenal lost to Man Utd and I was so devastated I just went to bed.

I talked to hommie about another possible date and was like you can post it on the 12^th of November exactly two months after your last post and again the 12^th did not work out because I had an Interesting dinner plan on that day :D …  

So today three days after the defeat to Man U and a day after a VERY POSITIVE DINNER,I want to share this with hope that you guys try it out.. We call it POSITIVES.

There are no rules, the instruction is simple: every day before the end of the day, we make a list of three good (POSITIVE) things that happened to us on that day.

You can share your positives with someone as me and hommie are doing or as judy does, you make a list and not necessarily share.

It can be anything… maybe a business deal that went well, maybe good grades in an exams, maybe approval from your boss, maybe arsenal winning… The list is long…

It’s funny how we take for granted these little things in lives… Yesterday on instagram I saw this post that really made me stop and think deeply.

It read:

"WHAT IF WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND FIND OUT U ONLY HAVE THE THINGS YOU THANKED GOD FOR ON THE PREVIOUS DAY, HOW MUCH WOULD YOU HAVE?"

This really struck me hard. Every day is a blessing, everything is a blessing. Sometimes even just waking up from sleep is something POSITIVE when you consider people all over the world who slept and did not wake up in the morning…

So me for me and for US, POSITIVES is just about being grateful, showing appreciation, looking at things from an optimistic point of view....

So try this and see how much difference it would make in your lives…

Over and Out until I write again it’s your boy SUPA JIFFZZ.

I AM NOT WHERE I WANT TO BE YET BUT ATLEAST I AM NOT WHERE I WAS YESTERDAY.

Learning is better than silver and gold; so the popular saying goes. We were told this over and over in kindergarten, primary school and secondary school; we even had a song about “we are all going to our classes with clean hands and faces"….. na na na.. I guess u remember the song.

I am a 25 year old male Sierra Leonean. Yes 25. Now that I’m saying it to myself it sounds so scary but well time flies…

Just yesterday I was in kindergarten at the Awada primary school in Bo southern Sierra Leone and then Becklyn Nursery and Preparatory School and International School Ltd Secondary in Sierra Leone.

Today I am a pharmacist (a specialist in medicines). Yes!!! Me, I am Doctor Ajiffa Victor Labor(I love Kenya for that coz back in Sierra Leone the title is Pharm.—I did not like the sound of that but well I love my profession and I love my country very much).

Like every other human my age both male and female our expectations after finishing our university education are very big—buy a car, have a go on chics we would have never had the guts to hit on (for guys), moving out of parents houses, balling in the night clubs on Friday and Saturday night popping Hennessey and Jack Daniels bottles, making that desired trip… blah blah blah the list is long…..

The reality is that, it is not always a bed of roses after graduating from college. Well some are lucky to have things fall in place for them pretty fast but for the majority life becomes even harder.

I can’t say I’m not happy with where I am today because it would be a very big lie. I AM VERY THANKFUL TO GOD ALMIGTY FOR BRINGING ME THUS FAR.

I would not trade this life for my past life of hustling through lectures, dreading oral exams, those BECAUSE multiple choice questions, plus one minus multiple choice questions, hours of ward rounds, my final year dissertation, waking up at 2am on examination day to go secure a sitting position in the exams hall and all...

I’m in a better place now; I AM NOT WHERE I WANT TO BE YET BUT ATLEAST I AM NOT WHERE I WAS YESTERDAY.

I miss having the liberty to skive classes though. Now I really can’t do that with work.

With my pharmacy degree, ideally I should be on salary, health insurance, and an allowance for transportation and housing.

But after finishing pharmacy school, I decided to take another path—I relocated to Nairobi. Two years ago when I was in Final part one, the only thing I knew about Nairobi was, Jomo Kenyatta and this was because the high school I attended is located on a street named after him.. Now here I am about eight months into my stay here in a country with such beautiful history and natural recourses; I can successfully navigate my way through west lands (that’s like the party center of Nairobi), I’ve visited the beautiful Wasini island in Mombasa, I’ve learnt about the wild beast migration through the Mara river in NAROK COUNTY and so much more..

I am not very open about the things I love; but I love my GOD, I love banana, I love my family and I love MONEY. Now here I am working pro bono for a year in order to obtain a license to practice in a foreign country.

The road has not been easy nor straight, relocation has been an uphill  but one thing I’ve learnt is that my God never leaves nor forsakes the his children and I really CANT GIVE UP NOW....

LISTEN AND ENJOY!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmQBshQ11uohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmQBshQ11uo