I remember when I was in matric I planned everything post matric. My early 20's is were I wanted to achieve everything, obtain my degree at the age of 21, get a job immediately thereafter in the mining industry, buy a car at 22, buy a house when I turn 23. The one that took the cake was to be married when I turn 25! I mean in your 20's you are really old enough and an adult and should have almost everything your parents have right?
This sounded like a good plan hey? Lol.., I find myself laughing because I cannot believe how naive I was at that age.
How many of us made plans, had goals and desires of what we want to have achieved at the age of 25? Everyone with the hunger for life planned to achieve a lot by the time they turned 25 and a lot of us came to realise right at 21 that we are not even close to accomplishing 60% of those goals/dreams.
It took me 5years to obtain my BSc geology degree at the age of 23, it took two years to obtain my honours degree. I didn't do all this in record time or at the age I had hoped or planned for. However, the lessons that I have learned along the way is priceless. I didn't get a job immediately after my first degree or buy a car or a house.
Things worked out better, God had bigger plans for me the year I turned 25 than I did for myself(obviously!). With only two modules to complete in order to obtain my honours degree I got a job that required me to move to the coast(never planned or dreamed about this). The job wasn't at a mine but in the sea/ocean(I didn't think about this), still overwhelmed by the way things were working out for me now, I was off to USA(Houston) for two months followed by AUE (Dubai). Now this happened a week after I turned 25:).
I may not have bought a house or a car or even be married but the life that God has paved for me, the one he long had paved for me is far more fulfilling than the life I had planned/wished for myself.
