A birthday is a day where one receives a lot of attention from family, friends, workmates and sometimes even strangers just for being alive to see another life year. Mine falls right in the middle of the year, 7th June. I get to reflect on my past life year and self-analyse how my year is going.
I am slowly bidding farewell to my youth. The UN (UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA) puts youth as being between the age of 15-24. The African Union, AU defines youth as being between 15-35. I have my own definition of youth which I will discuss in another article.
My opinion about life has changed drastically in my 33rd life year. I feel like, within the last 12 months, I have metamorphosed into a completely different person. The growth I have experienced fall into four categories; Beliefs, Attitudes, Addictions and Relationships, which I will discuss in detail in subsequent articles.
In summary my 33rd life year, I noticed that I give less fucks about people’s opinions. I also started caring more about my own feelings and focused a lot on personal growth. In that same year, I quitted smoking and partying every week.
The result of these changes was surprisingly good as well as shocking. At some point, I lost all my best friends. I think they didn’t understand who or what I have become. They also were taken by surprise by the sudden changes. But after some months, we managed to talk things out, and we reestablished a relationship. With others it became clear that they were in it just for personal gain.
I am pretty excited about year 34 of my life because of the enormous opportunities ahead. I am finally in a relationship where I am madly in love, and she is too. I have substantial business ideas that I am working on, and the foundation is already set for them to succeed.
I have two more years before I officially, according to AU, say goodbye to my youth. I believe these two years are going to be the most defining moments of my life. I will keep you up to date with what is going on. Thank you for taking your time to read, and I wish you all the best and mad love for you.
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