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My Transformation

A walk away from the Cameroonian Dream

By Gratitude LEKUNKENGPublished 2 years ago 2 min read

MY TRANSFORMATION

Do you know how hard it is to walk away from all you've known to be? Maybe?! No one walks without a fight. What we've always known are the slavemasters while our fears and ego are the slavedrivers. Many of us have been drowning in our fears and ego for decades now; not one nor two, a couple more decades, the reason why many wake up in their 30s and realise life has passed them by.

What were we struggling for all these years, thinking the light at the end of the tunnel was our ticket to a happy life. All these struggles just to realise the light was the headlamp of an incoming, unmanned train. What a waste of days, and now the disdain of structures and systems that fueled our inspiration for years, because we just realised the dangling carrot Infront of the donkey was now petrified junk. We were not given a heads up, but, hey, what do you know. Some of us, we move!

For years, I had battled to stay afloat, just barely getting my head above the water from time to time to gasp for some air. I had been weary. You know, it was so had because I was swimming against the tides of my life. Okay, lemme explain.

All I knew was what someone else had lived, thus, keeping me in "security". If I had known better, to see that it was a great ingenuity for a cage. I had just been running around like a damn laboratory animal, with bounds they don't have to cross. Many know this under the phrase, "comfort zone".

Do you know that each of us is a very unique design, the reason our DNA sequence is unique. Therefore, we ought to have unique paths of life. Of course, we do converge and diverge at some points, nevertheless, we all have a path we must follow. Many have spent their entire lives and many have died in another man's path. The reason for the great swim struggle is because many have taken paths which their design does not support. Everyone has been equipped to accomplish something specific, remember this .

TO BE CONTINUED...

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Gratitude LEKUNKENG

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  • Amanda Scottyabout a year ago

    I love. Thanks

  • T. Licht2 years ago

    👍❤️- great great great work.

  • Sweileh 8882 years ago

    Thank you for the interesting and delicious content. Follow my stories now.

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