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Virtual Financial Operations Virtual Assistant (In Training) @ University of Abuja
In the End, We All Become Stories
<p>(P.S. This is my last insight for an unforeseeable amount of time)</p><p><br/></p><p>It’s funny how, in the end, everything we are — all the noise, the laughter, the late-night tears, the small victories nobody clapped for — turns into stories. Someone, somewhere, will start a sentence with <em>“I remember when she…”</em> and that’s how we’ll live on.</p><p><br/></p><p>When you really think about it, life is just a collection of scenes stitched together.</p><p>The moments we rushed through, the people we ignored, the things we thought didn’t matter — those are the lines people will use to describe us one day. Not the fancy job title, or how aesthetic our Instagram looked, but how we made them feel, how we showed up when it wasn’t convenient, how we loved, or didn’t.</p><p><br/></p><p>I once heard someone say, “You die twice — once when you stop breathing, and once when your name is said for the last time.” It stayed with me. Because sometimes, we get so busy trying to <em>build a life</em>, we forget that it’s the stories people tell about us that outlive everything else.</p><p><br/></p><p>Think about it.</p><p>When we talk about our parents, grandparents, or even childhood friends, we don’t talk about their net worth or academic records. We talk about how grandma never let anyone go hungry. How dad always wore that same shirt to every party. How that one friend would give you her last biscuit without thinking twice.</p><p><br/></p><p>That’s legacy.</p><p>Not wealth. Not fame. Just stories — pieces of ourselves scattered in the hearts of others.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe that’s why it’s important to live gently. To treat people kindly. To say sorry faster. To laugh louder. To let love stretch its legs in our hearts, even when it’s inconvenient. Because at the end of everything, when the noise fades and the world moves on, someone will still tell your story — and how it’s told will depend on how you lived.</p><p><br/></p><p>So live in a way that your story is worth retelling.</p><p>Not because it’s perfect, but because it’s honest.</p><p>In the end, we all become stories. Just make sure yours is one people want to remember.</p>
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