Goodbye, 2025
With a few more hours to end the year, everyone is pensive, and rightly so. We’re leaving 2025 with our sights set on the coming year.
I don’t have ONE word to describe the year, but I have a whole article, because 365 days, 12 long months, and 52 weeks cannot be fairly summed up in a single word.
It was a year unraveled unlike I expected. I did expect it to be different- being my first educational gap year since 2002🫠.
Different things happened at once at the start of the year- mourning, moving and beginning my first real job within the first 14 days.
I was frustrated because of an over-stretched government-mediated delay. My mates and I waited and waited and wondered why our story is always so different.
I scrambled at different webinars and courses to make up for the time I felt I was losing.
At some points, I had to convince my self that there was nothing to wait for, just so I wouldn’t be disappointed if it never came through.
Boy, the thoughts desperation can make you think!
(It did, literally at the 11th hour (month))
The frustration made me wonder what life would’ve been like had I taken certain opportunities offered to me at the start of the year.
2025 has tried me and worn me out in some ways.
I’ve felt everything;
From inexplicable joy,
To the fulfillment of service and the joy of fellowship,
Through to the crushing of delays
And being let down by myself and other people.
I have struggled to accept the good and celebrate my wins because the ups seem to pale in comparison to the downs but I will name them anyway:
I took an intentional purpose discovery course this year and I am proud to say that I gained much needed clarity from it.
I yapped quite a bit on LinkedIn from a pharmacist’s POV😉.
I held a very fulfilling virtual writing class that ran for 3 weeks with 2 of my amazing writer friends. It gained much more traction than I anticipated, all glory to God.
I got inducted as a pharmacist.
I also took part in the most impactful mastery program in the second half of the year.
I have been provided for in many ways.
I have received mercy countless times.
I have experienced healing from sickness.
I have received direction and great support.
I have been loved and helped.
I have experienced favour before God and man.
I found strength through prayer even when I struggled to find time to pray.
It’s been one of many paradoxes, and a few things remain true; this year has not been the sweetest, but God remains the constant. I have gone through 2025, only through Christ who strengthened me.
And I’m just happy to see 2026.
“Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! The Sovereign Lord is my strength! He makes me as surefooted as a deer, able to tread upon the heights. (For the choir director: This prayer is to be accompanied by stringed instruments.)”
Habakkuk 3:17-19 NLT
PS: It’s the end of the year and things are looking brighter, at least, but I ask to have a word with whoever put the light at the end of the tunnel and not the beginning. Please meet me at the front with your boxing gloves.
Do have a blessed 2026🤍
Have a blessed 2026 to you too!