45 Lessons I Learnt At 45

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Hitting the age of 45 feels surreal to me. In my mind flashes of memories, long-lived filtered through. In reality, four decades and a half aren’t that long. It wasn’t long ago I viewed forty as a milestone. It felt like days ago that I turned forty and here I am at forty-five, five years away from FIFTY!!!

I was a teenager a few years ago looking through the lens of life wishing for freedom. Planning my life ahead of me, sieving through the bad eggs, I was sure of how long it would take before arriving at forty.

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Social Distancing: Are You Bored Yet?

I was one of the very few who didn’t take Coronavirus seriously. It wasn’t something I wanted to hear about nor know the number of victims it had consumed. With all the madness of panic buying, I stayed calm scoffing at people excessiveness.

About three weeks ago, the reality of the situation we are in struck harder when I arrived at my local supermarket (eight in the morning) and found nowhere to park.

I returned home empty-handed. An empty cabinet stared at me. We had run out of essentials. I sat down hopelessly regretting my decision not to stuck up.

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Once upon a time in my nice life.

 I was the nice quiet girl in the classroom, I was the nice lady in the office who never argue with anyone, I was that person whose voice couldn’t be heard. The nice one whose rights could be tramp upon. The nice one to whom all the chores could be passed on to. Someone nice enough not to utter a word, despite the inconveniences.

I was once the nice person whose feelings were hurt, the one who was afraid to say how people made her feel, the nice one who traded her ideas all in the name of being nice. The one with the great idea, but, too shy to voice it out. Too afraid to be seen as a showoff. The one who received the look and walked away quietly. Too nice to look back, silently bearing it all. (more…)

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