2024 in Hindsight: A Heart Full of Gratitude

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

– Melody Beattie

Gratitude they say; begets other virtues.
As 2024 gradually gets to an end, with just 28 days left to complete the year's cycle, I find myself looking beyond the rhetorics of the economic hardships to say, THANK YOU 2024 because this year offered me a big part of my dream and I am grateful not just because of what it offered me, but also, because of the lessons I learnt along the way; a year that came with lots of challenges, growth, dedication, gratitude envelops my heart for the way it shaped me.

First and foremost, I give my heartfelt gratitude to God Almighty,who, in His infinite mercy kept me alive and guided me through this journey, Thank You, God.

Last year ended on a rough and sad note with me failing a course in one of my professional exams. Having never experienced academic setback before, it hit me so hard and left me in ocean of confusion, self-doubts and thoughts constantly asking myself one rhetorical question...

What if I lose one year and have to join my junior colleagues if I don't pass this course by next year, 2024?

Come 2024, I had no option than to start all over again with the preparation because they will always say that "failing isn't fatal, success isn't the end, it's the willingness to continue that matters."

In March 2024, we rewrote the exams and be it as it may, I passed the exam. That! Was the start of something wonderful the year offered me.

It ushered me in for the last lap of my training in medical school. It's been preparation from then till August when exams finally started, results coming out and finally getting me inducted into the Medical Council Of Nigeria on October 3, 2024.

Becoming a doctor has been my greatest dream for the past seven years and finally getting to be one after so many years of training sure makes 2024 leave an indelible impression on me.

I am grateful to family and friends. These set of persons have been my pillar just like every other year. They've been there through thicks and thins with me; got sad when it wasn't going well and celebrated with me when it was all rossy. They gave me the joy of living even as I pursued my dream.
I sure wouldn't have pulled this year off without you guys, Thank You.

I am also thankful for patients whom we sedimented the theoretical stuffs with.. . Their resilience in the face of illness is a daily source of inspiration, I say Thank You.

Never will I also talk about 2024 without giving gratitude to this platform, Hive. It turned my challenges into blessings in disguise.
I've been here for quite a while now (about two years and nine months) but I'll say I never got to know how of a help it could be to be prior to this year when I had financial issues, turned left and right and behold I had only Hive as a lifeline.
Someone might argue how powering down and withdrawing is a thing of gratitude, I understand your perspective but to me, it was quite a great thing of gratitude because I can't even imagine for a second how it would have been if I never knew here, Thank You Hive.

In this season of thankfulness, I embrace everything the year has brought both the challenges and the triumphs and for every lesson of growth it has taught me.

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As I look forward to a hopeful 2025, I say a heartfelt Thank You, 2024.

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