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Student @ Adekunle Ajasin University of Akungba, Akoko
NEW ME
<p style="text-align: center;">Every year we have this thing we do, “New year, new me.”</p><p style="text-align: center;">I’m not going to repeat last year’s mistakes.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We make all sorts of plans, bold promises to ourselves, carefully written goals.</p><p style="text-align: center;">But what if we aren’t able to meet up with those plans?</p><p style="text-align: center;">What if we plan with all our hearts, yet execution slips through our fingers?</p><p style="text-align: center;">Sometimes it isn’t laziness or lack of will sometimes life simply happens.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Things beyond our control show up uninvited and rearrange our timelines.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I think about my friend.</p><p style="text-align: center;">He had plans too. Real ones. Hope-filled ones.</p><p style="text-align: center;">A year mapped out with dreams, effort, and the quiet belief that things would finally work out.</p><p style="text-align: center;">But somewhere along the line, life took a cruel turn.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Instead of chasing his goals, he ended up behind bars for something he didn’t do.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Tell me, how do you plan for that?</p><p style="text-align: center;">How do you prepare for injustice, for being punished by circumstances you never created?</p><p style="text-align: center;">One moment you’re dreaming, the next you’re just trying to survive a reality you never imagined.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And that’s when I realized....</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not everyone who didn’t “make it” failed.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Some people were simply overpowered by situations bigger than them.</p><p style="text-align: center;">So maybe this year isn’t about becoming a new me.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Maybe it’s about understanding that life doesn’t always play fair.</p><p style="text-align: center;">That sometimes, the bravest thing isn’t winning but enduring.</p><p style="text-align: center;">If I don’t achieve everything I planned this year,</p><p style="text-align: center;">I hope I at least keep my compassion.</p><p style="text-align: center;">For myself. For my friend. For everyone quietly fighting battles the world knows nothing about.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Because growth isn’t always visible.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And survival, too, is a kind of victory.</p>
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