Thread by @nonsookongwu, This is not about meeting my sister, @ChimamandaReal. Seen her a couple [...]

This is not about meeting my sister, @ChimamandaReal. Seen her a couple of times(not one-on-one though) in some events and at my God mum's and, I didn't want to come around and have a one on one ... because I'm not used to "famzing", but this is special.

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Let's start from Saturday night, I was in the midst of some people and we spent a greater part of the young evening discussing my career path.
Now, I am at a very unstable phase in my career, I didn't get a mentor earlier in IT and multimedia and I led myself astray

So, the instability is me trying to retrace my steps by learning new skillset.
Even though, I don't regret the detour but then, it's not their fault, they needed to understand me and maybe I wasn't doing a great job helping them understand but then, I was grossly misunderstood...

And you don't want to be misunderstood, you ll want to cry but you won't find tears.
Ok, after the whole exercise, I retired to bed around 2am, decide to go through Twitter for a while and I stumbled on this link from @bounceradiolive of @Ebuka interview with @ChimamandaReal

Well, I just decided, "it ll be a fun thing to watch before sleep". The link took me to youtube and boom, I was hooked and I saw the whole interview, yes, the 1hr, 40 mins or thereabout.
While I watched, because I planned to go to my God mum's the next day, thoughts of

"what if you run into Chimamanda tommorow nko?" came. Lol... I sharperly dismissed the thoughts, with, "did she even come around for Christmas?"
Well, the interview was significant to me for 2 reasons:

Firstly, Attending UNN and coming from the same town as chimamanda, I was able to relate to almost everything she said, the names, places and events...

Secondly and the most important, she mentioned how she was had that uneasy and unstable phase (medicine to pharmacy, then writing SAT, then politics and history) till she settled for the career she wanted. she mentioned how she was misunderstood too...

By the time I was done watching, I was not only super excited that I got to know Chimamanda's life outside of writing also I was comforted by the fact that, we share the same experiences and she was able to rise to stardom despite that....

Now, from Sunday morning, all through, I had this thought in mind.. "Nonso, how will u rise to stardom from this ashes you find yourself"... Even in church, this thought kept ringing.
Uncertainties and skepticism ear and dear...lol

I had a traditional marriage to attend in the afternoon (which I didn't even attend again), went to my okwu Nne (maternal home) from there, picked a bike to my God mum's and on entering the place, boom, Aunty Chimamanda was talking with some people....

Ladies and gentlemen, I was gobsmacked, a friend said I was star struck!
I greeted my God mum and she said me to "Go greet your sister" and I'm like me? E mi noni? Lol
I took it as God saying, "I wasn't mincing words when I told you that like her, you'll rise from this ashes."

That's all the sign I needed!
This is for all of us still in the unstable phases of our career or people (like me) that are switching careers cos they started with a wrong career...
I'd leave you with what I was told... "You don't have time" lol

But let me add the words of Steve Jobs also, "the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

@ChimamandaReal thanks for inspiring us.
I extended your kind regards to the house... everybody is happy and my parents received mamas regards too..

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