#Bloganuary Day 2

“HOW BRAVE ARE YOU?”

If brave had a face it could be “When our intentions are aligned with the highest good, nothing can hold us back.

One day we wake up, we open our eyes, something clicks, and realize we really don’t want the things we always thought would make us happy. 

The pursuit ends and purpose takes our hand; it shows a freedom we hadn’t seen before and serenity seeps into our veins.

The warmth, the comfort, the whole picture changes…

A new road is waiting, yet it’s been there all along. 

We just needed to arrive. 

Change your thinking and your life changes.”

-Debbie Lynn

The prompt question for day two is “How Brave are You?” It may be easy to locate occasions we’ve been brave but only God knows how we stretched ourselves to be where we are today. It may be even easier to answer this question knowing that we are good with words but the reality leaves us with another question “How did I survive?”

I am brave when I remember leaving mommy at the age of 19 to a place I was not allowed to communicate apart from writing letters that out of five that I wrote only two got to her. It was in that same location I lived for eight years brained washed that serving the poor and living with little to nothing at all was the heavenly life. Choosing to leave was met with comments like “hell is where you are going if you choose to leave”. That was a big lie, it’s now six years and I am more handsome, more healthier and even more smarter than I was.

I am brave when I remember that day I choose to follow my dreams. I sneaked from the monastery to prepare my way out. For a few months, I had to go in and out without being noticed and when the day come 15th of June 2015 I left the monastery in my brown shorts and a t-shirt, boarded flight, and went back home.

I am brave when I remember joining a system that I didn’t know how it runs and yet I had no clue what I choose. I joined the University of West Indies with 5% knowledge of technology and writing essay and citing of papers and yet after five years, I emerged victorious with a bachelor’s degree.

I am brave when I remember seating in a studio and I was turned to be a presenter. There and then I was ‘medially baptized’ to Jambo Jambo. You can follow my IG @jambo_jamaica. It was even a blast of bravery when my first article was published in the newspaper. I didn’t trust my English at all and even though my blogs were trending here and there, it was out of the brave face in me I shared them publicly.

I am brave when I remember that moment I marched in and said I do to a vocation that I dreamt of since childhood and I have no regret about it despite the challenges it comes with. Even now, if I was to start all over again, I would still choose this very calling with no second thought.

This is just a slice of how brave I am. The cake itself is unbelievable.

#BLOGANUARY #2023 #BRAVEMEANDME