2nd
January 2012.
Today is the second day in the year 2012. Wow 2012! Like
sister Kunbi said “ Eyan dagba si ni yen” Yes we’re all getting older as times
flies through the years. This year I want to blog every day on topics and
issues surrounding the family. I want to practice family and marriage therapy
cause I want to be that kind of therapist. You would be wondering what kind of
audacity I have to do so knowing fully well that I just submitted my final
project on adolescent sexual debut in partial fulfilment of the requirement for
the bachelor of science degree in Psychology and as my last academic duty as an
undergraduate in the Obafemi Awolowo University almost two weeks ago, I’m not
yet married (nym) or even in any romantic relationship at all, I’ve never had a
child or been close to having any, I’d be 22 years old this year and I still
live with my family of orientation or procreation (whichever one is appropriate).
But the fact that I have a family at all makes this possible, I have the
AUDACITY OF HOPE! (Can you hear my victory song at the background?) I want to
effect change through simplicity I’d just stop right there.
New year’s eve I wasn’t sure I still wanted to be a marriage
and family therapist, because I was close to tears bout my family, I didn’t
know what I was doing wrong cause I prayed and took the initiative to love and
not try to change them, but they (especially my parents)seemed to get worse
instead of better . I love them and I want them at their best. Do I have an
ulterior motive for this? Well! Is there anything wrong with having a
‘desirable daddy, mummy, brother or sister’?! is there anything wrong in having
people wish they had my kind of family? Hey! Don’t give me that talk about
people not being perfect, there is entirely nothing wrong in having something
really really good as yours and being proud to show it to the world. YES! I’m
taking this PERSONAL. It’s my family and it could be a mirror of yours too. I
hope for the courage to come out real and blunt about these things. So help me
God. You could be of help to me and I could be of help to you, it’s ‘Ubuntu’ on
this blog. Thank you.
