The limit of you is you!
During those moments when you can't sleep and just stare at the ceiling, what runs through your mind?. Of late, a lot has been on my mind and i have used that time to plan the big things i have coming this summer!.
This particular morning though i thought about where i am in life and looking back, i was suprised at how far one can go! For sure, we are the only limits to ourselves!.
I thought about me, the little girl, when I was 5 or so and was leaving with my grandmother( bless her wonderful heart).
There was a lot to do in the village, run around the grounds with other children, jump over our grandfather's neatly done and sprunge them, peep your uncles cages curious of what they doing in there, climb trees with the boys and eat guava while sitting on a branch😋, and most of all we watched and trapped birds, and watched the aero planes fly! Yea i was quite a tomboy then!
One time i was sitted outside bored to death, the sun was high and hot and i was just sitting on the grass, watched a couple of planes fly past and asked my granny, ' are there actually real people in there, where do they disappear to in the clouds and then reappear?', how could she know while she had never been in one!. It was a mystery this plane thing! I could not even dare dream of ever being in one, judging by the small poor village i was in at that particular moment in life. I remember asking her, 'do you think i will ever be in one or even somebody we know?', she looked at me and into my eyes and gave one stern answer! ' you want to ever be in one, education is the key! Work hard in school'. I thought about how school and planes connected and did not get it then, i get it now.
That little girl from a small village in central Kenya did study and did get on the plane😄. Let me tell you about my 1st experience, i was so excited the night before I did not sleep, most of my family(extended) and friends were in our home for the farewell dinner and prayers😆, it was like you were going forever! My grandmother was there grinning you could see all her remaining teeth, she was so happy. There were like 3 groups of cars and everyone wanting to take me to the airport because it was such pride for a family to send a child abroad then. I felt very proud of myself!. I got lost in Amsterdam😂😂, they announced my flight to Finland was about to leave, i ran like mad with all my million bags from Africa😂😂😂( seriously, if i ever find myself travelling like that, as interms of all that hand luggage😳😂).
Anyhow i finally made it to that Flight, And could clearly see in the faces of the white Men And women all in suits, that it was not their daily cup of tea to wait for some strange girl! I almost apologized, but i was embarrassed,even though i blamed it on the less transfer time!. Then i landed in Helsinki just before Midnight, got out to the cold and wondered, what the hell did i put myself upto?!, there are places this cold?!!!, what did i know, it was only autumn, and the cold winter that followed spent in the small city of Jyväskylä got me crying, annoyed and wondering how people deal with that Harsh weather. The only thing that kept me sane was to know that i had been given the chance to further my studies and there would be no one to blame if i didn't take it. So i braved the cold, the weekends travels to work in the big city, the brokeness (demn, money was never enough). I never took it for granted, i felt that i owed it to myself and to the people who had worked hard in helping me get there.
The day those graduation papers landed in my Hands, it was just sane to let down some tears, and have a good glass of wine.
I thought smiling, in those wee hours of the morning, in the semi-dark room staring at the high white ceiling, look at that small girl now, she can't even count how many times she's been on planes, she's been to so many countries, she has the Life she dreamt of, she works in one of the biggest Icu's in a foreign language and in a foreign country that she has now adapted to and holds closely at heart, she's happy in her relationship, she is about to hit a lot other dreams she has in life, The only person who had the power to Limit me was Me! Thankfully, i didn't. It is very important to not Limit ourselves.
THE LIMIT IS BEYOND THE SKIES
This particular morning though i thought about where i am in life and looking back, i was suprised at how far one can go! For sure, we are the only limits to ourselves!.
I thought about me, the little girl, when I was 5 or so and was leaving with my grandmother( bless her wonderful heart).
There was a lot to do in the village, run around the grounds with other children, jump over our grandfather's neatly done and sprunge them, peep your uncles cages curious of what they doing in there, climb trees with the boys and eat guava while sitting on a branch😋, and most of all we watched and trapped birds, and watched the aero planes fly! Yea i was quite a tomboy then!
One time i was sitted outside bored to death, the sun was high and hot and i was just sitting on the grass, watched a couple of planes fly past and asked my granny, ' are there actually real people in there, where do they disappear to in the clouds and then reappear?', how could she know while she had never been in one!. It was a mystery this plane thing! I could not even dare dream of ever being in one, judging by the small poor village i was in at that particular moment in life. I remember asking her, 'do you think i will ever be in one or even somebody we know?', she looked at me and into my eyes and gave one stern answer! ' you want to ever be in one, education is the key! Work hard in school'. I thought about how school and planes connected and did not get it then, i get it now.
That little girl from a small village in central Kenya did study and did get on the plane😄. Let me tell you about my 1st experience, i was so excited the night before I did not sleep, most of my family(extended) and friends were in our home for the farewell dinner and prayers😆, it was like you were going forever! My grandmother was there grinning you could see all her remaining teeth, she was so happy. There were like 3 groups of cars and everyone wanting to take me to the airport because it was such pride for a family to send a child abroad then. I felt very proud of myself!. I got lost in Amsterdam😂😂, they announced my flight to Finland was about to leave, i ran like mad with all my million bags from Africa😂😂😂( seriously, if i ever find myself travelling like that, as interms of all that hand luggage😳😂).
Anyhow i finally made it to that Flight, And could clearly see in the faces of the white Men And women all in suits, that it was not their daily cup of tea to wait for some strange girl! I almost apologized, but i was embarrassed,even though i blamed it on the less transfer time!. Then i landed in Helsinki just before Midnight, got out to the cold and wondered, what the hell did i put myself upto?!, there are places this cold?!!!, what did i know, it was only autumn, and the cold winter that followed spent in the small city of Jyväskylä got me crying, annoyed and wondering how people deal with that Harsh weather. The only thing that kept me sane was to know that i had been given the chance to further my studies and there would be no one to blame if i didn't take it. So i braved the cold, the weekends travels to work in the big city, the brokeness (demn, money was never enough). I never took it for granted, i felt that i owed it to myself and to the people who had worked hard in helping me get there.
The day those graduation papers landed in my Hands, it was just sane to let down some tears, and have a good glass of wine.
I thought smiling, in those wee hours of the morning, in the semi-dark room staring at the high white ceiling, look at that small girl now, she can't even count how many times she's been on planes, she's been to so many countries, she has the Life she dreamt of, she works in one of the biggest Icu's in a foreign language and in a foreign country that she has now adapted to and holds closely at heart, she's happy in her relationship, she is about to hit a lot other dreams she has in life, The only person who had the power to Limit me was Me! Thankfully, i didn't. It is very important to not Limit ourselves.
THE LIMIT IS BEYOND THE SKIES
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