This year has whizzed by so quickly, it's amazing! Not too long ago we were staggering home from new years celebrations, and we are now already planning the next! I have been blessed with so much, the world just keeps looking more beautiful everyday! So today, a day before my birthday, I'm gonna take a moment to be grateful for all my blessings; for all the beautiful souls in my life - some I've met, some I 'know' but haven't met and yet I can proudly call friends (the power of social networking), and for the most amazing family a girl could ever ask for!!
I look to 24 as another challenge....there's still so much to achieve before this year comes to a close, and even more before I'm sitting here, same time next year discussing 25! Okay, 25 neh....let's not get excited, I'm still coming to terms with 24! For the entire week I have been doing a lot of thinking.....questioning some of the things I do, wondering of the difference, if any, that I make in others' lives, and taking decisions that will impact my future. This brought back a chance meeting a while back with a stranger that made me carefully assess the person I am now.
A few months back I was out with friends, indulging in some serious post-match celebrations (I wont start babbling about soccer, I promise)....Orlando Pirates had successfully made their mark in PSL history by lifting their third cup of the season - the first team to achieve that feat since the inception of the PSL. Now I was out to party - that was worth a celebration - and judging by the number of people at the spot where we were, it seemed many had the same idea! While waiting for our drinks from the barman, I was chatting to a male person who was also waiting for his drinks, when another guy just out of the royal blue turns to me and says 'I know you'. Taken aback, and being my silly self, I told him stop lying, asking him where he knew me from. He insisted he knew me, and told me where I used to study. Now this guy says to me 'you gave me R2.00....I know you, you gave me R2.00'. I was stunned....I couldn't even remember him from a bar of soap!! Apparently, while catching public transport to varsity, I gave him R2.00 because he didn't have enough money to get on the taxi. Now this brother was looking good.....well dressed, smelled great, and oh he knew it. "You gave me R2.00 to get to varsity - and I was so broke. Look at me now', he said tugging his jacket. That was the most humbling moment for me....that an act I did without putting much thought (or I was just annoyed and wanted to leave, I dunno) could have made such an impact in someone else's world! Since that day, many years back, he remembered me. That night I understood the true value of R2.00. Now I've been questioning whether to write about this or not - it was, after all, one of those experiences just for and about me - but now, holding a R2.00 coin in hand, I felt I should share it, mainly because of the lesson that I learnt from it: be kind, always....you could be changing a life. For me, that is the value of R2.00 And that is the person I strive to be - one who makes a difference, no matter how small!
24 neh.....24! I guess I must do more than just accept it because I can't change it.....I must embrace it, because with it comes grace, maturity, humility, and coming into my own as a young, independent, ambitious and focused woman. Yeah, 24!
Here's to another 24 years of stiletto shopping, weave-flicking, coffee drinking, loud laughing, and insult hurling during soccer matches! Yeah, here's to 24...and another 24, and another 24 and another freaken 24!!!
Now let the party begin.....after all, its my freaken birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, tomorrow! Hehehehehe!
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