Life Lately, Updates, Blogging Again?

Many years in the past, as a younger fresh-faced medical pupil, I began a weblog to share my life and magnificence. That singular motion modified the course of my life in some ways and has been the bedrock and basis for lots of the issues I’ve achieved so far.

I gave that weblog my all and it rewarded me. Oh, the way it rewarded me. I used to be constant, I used to be diligent, I wrote down the nice, the dangerous, and the in-between, and it expanded my life. Expanded my attain. I not solely simply blogged, I now had products created off the again of the work I did on the weblog. I now had a job creating content and writing for one of Nigeria’s foremost banks, a job my weblog performed an element in me getting. I used to be not solely a med pupil & blogger, however a Doctor, inventive entrepreneur, and a content material marketer. I used to be at a candy spot, juggling all with as a lot dexterity as a clown juggles its balls.

Then Covid occurred…

And by some means, I finished exhibiting up as constantly as I used to. Where I’d often present up thrice in per week, my presence dwindled. So a lot, that it’s been no less than a very good full yr since I’ve graced the weblog with my presence. I informed myself it was just a bit break day. After all, we had been in a pandemic. Not simply the one attributable to COVID, but additionally a pandemic of individuals shedding curiosity in studying blogs. I battle to recollect which pandemic got here first, however by some means there was additionally a fast decline in blogs. They had been not all of the rave, folks’s consideration span switched as shortly as a toddler when he sees a brand new toy.

However, that didn’t diminish my affections for my weblog. Every yr, with out fail, I’d pay for its area identify and internet hosting. Regardless of my absence, I simply couldn’t think about not having that weblog. It was the unthinkable. I used to be decided to carry on to it. I’d make grand plans about getting again on there and fail woefully. I blamed it on laziness. I informed myself in case you simply sit down and write, you possibly can get again to running a blog.

But currently, I’ve discovered myself questioning if it’s okay to only let it go. That perhaps it isn’t simply laziness as I’ve rationalized, however as a substitute that I could have moved on to a special section in my life. One that doesn’t fairly embody the trials of writing, importing, and sharing traces. I stilled my thoughts sufficient to lastly admit to myself that I could have outgrown it and that I most likely could by no means sustain with my grand plans of resuscitating the weblog and being as constant as in my heydays. My weblog additionally crashed sooner or later, and I misplaced each web optimization motion I’ve made to assist my weblog rank on google. This hit me actually laborious.

It’s laborious, ? Letting go is difficult. Letting go of one thing that has been an enormous a part of your life for years is even tougher. Something that grew as you grew, that watched you go from a naive teenager struggling to steadiness medical faculty and modeling to a health care provider and influencer, and sat with you thru a number of the most essential phases of your life. This isn’t me saying goodbye to the weblog perpetually. I’ll have a comeback, who is aware of? But this can be a type of closure for myself. And perhaps for anybody who has been hoping, questioning, if I’ll ever pop up right here once more. Life is in seasons and I suppose the season proper now could be one for acceptance. That it’s okay, I can let go now.

The previous few years that I’ve been away from my weblog, a lot has occurred! So, a lot has occurred. I say this with a little bit of nostalgia. I bear in mind days the place I’d rush off to my weblog and craft a narrative about all that has occurred. But by some means that zeal had died alongside my journey via life.

A few updates:

I shaved my hair.
I traveled to three extra African international locations.
I moved to Ibadan.
I bought engaged, married. The entire shebang, and it was lovely.
I moved to Canada.
I bought again on youtube and now vlog constantly. Check it out here!

I’m at present typing this from my sofa at dwelling in Canada, and mahn Life has actually been “life-ing”. I will not be again right here anytime quickly however I’m nonetheless on the inter webs doing what i do finest: oversharing. If you’ll like to reconnect, please try and subscribe to my youtube and observe me on Instagram here.