Review of the 30-day Challenge

I didn't post any article yesterday, I thought I needed to dedicate the day to pray and make plans for the new year. Today also happens to be the first Sunday of the year, but I wouldn't be going, I will make my prayers at home.

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I came across this 30-day writing challenge on a friend's Whatsapp status and I decided to join in.

• Day 1- about feelings

I reviewed my experience this year, the heartbreak I went through, I never knew I would recover after that but surprisingly I did, sometimes I wish things didn't have to end but it did but life must go on, we learn from the past and forge ahead.

• Day 2- about life

In this article, I took a look at myself and how I lived, I was so uptight and hardly let anyone in, rarely went for parties, and spent a major amount of time just being alone. I also decided on how I would like to live my life. I need to relax and let down those high walls and give some things a chance.

• Day 3- about friendship

I reviewed my introverted nature in this article, I have only a handful of friends despite knowing a lot of people. I also gave my opinions about what I think good friends should look like. It's a crazy world we live in today, you have to choose your friends wisely.

• Day 4- about loneliness

I had suffered a lot from this in the past so it was a bit personal writing about it. I know we must learn to be independent but I can't imagine a world where every single one I love is gone, this gave rise to the question - "if you had the power to live forever, would you take it?"

• Day 5- about love

I wrote poetry about love hahaha, it felt a bit mushy lovey-dubey but inspired anyway. The article points out how love can be a source of light in the dark and the greatest force of all. There were three riddles about love attached.

• Day 6- about abandonment

In this article, I made use of a story that showed how abandonment produced somewhat of a positive result. Everything has its good and bad I guess, it was a lesson for me as well.

• Day 7- about a loved one

This was one of my articles, I dedicated it to my mother and all mothers out there for their unconditional love and support for thief kids even when they are going through tough times and we don't make it any easier for them. A true gift of nature. Even if they are no longer with us physically, they will always be in our hearts. I witnessed childbirth once and then I realized just how much pain and sacrifice it requires to produce life. On behalf of everyone in the world I say this, We love you.

• Day 8- about nature

Every day that passes, I'm convinced that we are the ones responsible for the slow but rapidly increasing destruction of our home, Earth. Everything we do has its consequences, even when we don't know it's harmless, the effect of our activities have been building over centuries and now we are left to face the tune of the music, the most predominant of which Is the depletion of the Ozone layer. We need to save the planet, I outlined some of the precautions we care enough to read them.

• Day 9- about the skies

As a kid, I had a lot of beliefs about the sky, I shared some of them here, you might find some of them ridiculous but to me, they were my way of passing lonely times.

• Day 10- about an object

It took me a while to figure out the object to write about it and I chose the most deadly of all when put in the hands of someone skilled enough - A pen. Yes, you read it right, I'm not referring to how John Wick uses it even though it helps me prove my point by how powerful it can be in the hands of a writer.

• Day 11- about new years eve

Heyyyyyy, by the way, I was able to recreate some of those memories again, at the time I wrote this article, I didn't know how New year's eve would turn out, happy new year friends.

• Day 12- about pain

"Pain" is synonymous to me as that teacher who is actually very strict but teaches you very well. My Physics tutor was just like that, there was a day I packed my books and said "go to hell", long story short, I was punished, and to be honest, I wouldn't be where I am today if not for the effort that man put into teaching, the pain is now a thing of the past but the lesson lives on. Of course, I didn't mention this in my article but it's worth mentioning here.

• Day 13- about happiness

I unlocked the secret to happiness in this article, something worth knowing as we proceed into this new year.

• Day 14- about mistakes

This was part of my first publications here on read.cash so I didn't republish it during the challenge, I wrote a letter to "Mistake"

• Day 15- about opportunities

When opportunity presents itself, what do you do? A very easy question to do yet very difficult to carry out. This is influenced by fear and doubt, I wrote about how much blessing it is for anyone to be here today.

• Day 16- about old times

What I wouldn't give to go back and experience the joy of childhood again.

• Day 17- about loss

The day my dog died, I published this article with tears still flowing from my eyes.

• Day 18- about a song

Man in the Mirror by Micheal Jackson was the subject of this article. I referred to the lyrics of the song, change begins with you.

• Day 19- about passion

I wrote about some of the things I'm passionate about and how you can also find yours and pursue them.

• Day 20- about dreams

This was kind of Grimm, I wrote about the night I almost died in my sleep

• Day 21- about desire

What do you desire the most? I wrote about mine

• Day 22- about a book/movie

There are some books you read and it's just perfect until someone makes a movie about it and it doesn't meet the expectations you had already set. I wrote of such

• Day 23- about coziness

The days I came home from school for the holidays after experiencing hardships in the school hostel, I'll be returning sometime this week, the endurance continues.

• Day 24- about calmness

This was inspired by the cartoon Avatar - the last air bender, it shows some of the techniques you can perform to attain physical, mental, and spiritual calmness.

• Day 25- about differences/Day 26 - about similarities / Day 27- about me / Day 28- about you/Day 29 - about us

I went further to kill 5 birds with one stone when I analyzed each of the prompts in a single article comparing what has changed in me over the years and what would change in the future.

• Day 30- about anything

I ended the writing challenge on the 30th of December 2021 with "The God Complex", citing some top professions that would make anyone feel like a god.

I had a nice time writing these prompts but now I have to move on to other articles. 2022 is going to be a great year, I can already feel it.

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