It would be a little over 4 years ago when I decided, I would become a prolific writer and release ground-breaking pieces using this space. Alas, 4 years since I started and 3 years since my last post and all this never happened. Well, not never happened but probably froze over after 3 or 4 ”ground-breaking” pieces. Like many of us, I often wonder how many dreams and aspirations have had to take a back seat because life is happening and no one has time for dreams.

As chance would have it, I was ” working” on one of the things I have been up to recently(my brother thinks I’m always up to something) and decided to look up something on my Instagram which prompted me to look myself up on google and voila – mildyrocks.homeblogs came up!. This reminded me that I had created these beautiful pieces, that in all the chaos of becoming, I was this person who loved writing and reading. I couldn’t believe I was the one who had written down those fictional stories, nah scratch that of course it was me – I have always been an amazing writer or always figured I was. ‘Mildred!… there are people reading, we made it out of your thoughts! You are actually writing! Now focus, will you?’. Well I know It was me because I remember writing them but I just couldn’t simply shake who that girl was. So much has happened and changed for her. She has since become a Medical doctor who is still navigating life and all her hopes and aspirations. She recently learned how to swim and is still taking one day at a time although sometimes she wonders if Fred, her swim teacher really knows anything about CPR or just says he does just to keep her calm.

But I guess some things haven’t changed so much. She still loves to articulate her thoughts through writing, she still keeps a journal because it is an outlet for all the many ways life can get chaotic. She has many things to be thankful for and she indeed is thankful for. But today, she is grateful that she chanced on this reminder of who she used to be and what she wants to be. A reminder that , life is for the living!

And just so you know how chaotic life can get, FYI: she started writing this a week ago! And managed to finish it up today- hallelujah,