Life is already happening2 mins read

Once again, this is a brief post to clear the cobwebs here. It’s been kinda tough coming up with the inspiration to write amidst work and other obligations but I am pushing through still.

In recent times, through life events and discussions with friends, I have come into the ‘sudden realisation’ that life is already happening. What do I mean?

So through med school, it always seemed like I was waiting for something to happen so I could move to the next phase. This something may have been my graduation. And then getting into the internship, I was waiting for it to be over too so I can live my real life.

In all of this, it seemed like nothing very important or significant to my life’s journey was taking place. Everything seemed mundane, like a checklist of things that just had to get done.

The truth of the matter though, is that these seemingly mundane things are a part of life already happening. When we understand how connected moments in our life are, it’s easier to see how that random thing you said in passing to a friend months back maybe what triggers them to remember you when an opportunity comes. Or how the decision to attend a wedding reception is what leads you to meet your future life partner who also decided last minute to be at the party.

Life can be so random in the way it progresses – seemingly ordinary days or tasks may just lead to an unexpected turning point in one’s journey.

Turning points hardly ever happen in isolation, and most times people don’t even realise that a particular event is a turning point when it is happening. It’s also not very feasible to have been able to accurately predict how the path will look. These things are mostly recognised in retrospect.

What is the moral of these few words I have written? I think it’s just to encourage us to live now, no matter what phase that may be – school, internship, NYSC, unemployment,… Trust me, I know how hard this can be, especially with a term as vague as ‘live now’.

What I am really trying to say is that every moment counts eventually, whether used or unused. And time doesn’t really care about what state you are in – it moves on regardless. So to the best of your ability, don’t defer things you want to do thinking maybe it doesn’t matter. I believe life is a mixture of luck, preparedness and coincidences. Of these 3, only preparedness is within our control so it makes sense to do what we can about it.

If life were a race where a gunshot indicates the start, then the gun was probably shot the second we came out of the womb. The clock started ticking then, and there’s no stopping it until the day we take our last breath.

I really hope I passed across my message. Tbh, the post was written just to write and rant as I haven’t written publicly in a while. So maybe that accounts for my rustiness. But I am choosing to post this imperfection regardless.

If life were a race where a gunshot indicates the start, then the gun was probably shot the second we came out of the womb. The clock started ticking then, and there's no stopping it until the day we take our last breath. Share on X

Life is already happening.

To life,

Sisikunmi.