After going through the “task 3” challenge for the week, I was happy to see a terrain that I’m familiar with and are known for stories and poems: @dreamsteem. Seeing the keyword for the week, I was already thinking of a story that would suit the “title” but the ideas on what to write became too long, i just had to “change my plans” to a write up all of us can relate to.

But before going ahead and with a standing ovation, permit to mention three of our honorable guests as they take the high tables: @wakeupkitty @inspiracion and @yancar.

If there’s anyone I know that can change plans so suddenly is my kid sister. She can just wake up one day and decide that she wants something else, going off the original plans. I will be taking us down memory lane in terms of her career.

Originally my kid sister, was someone that had always been a good art student and was weak in her science subjects but she won’t let us hear anything other than “when she grows up, I want to be a doctor”. Due to her low grades in science subjects, my mom hired a private science teacher to be taking her and my kid brother home lessons. My brother picked up but she didn’t. My parents now decided to focus more on her strength and wanted her to read law when she enters university in the future.

Instead of this young lady to study her books like her classmates in junior high school, she went there to fall in love. Time came, when everyone was to move to senior high school. Were they will separate art and science students. My sister came up with her drama again that she has changed her mind, she know longer wants to be an art student again.

We all knew her reason for changing her mind was because her boyfriend was a science student and that was why she was insisting to be there as well. So no one took her seriously but She kept crying about it all the time, my dad decided to just by the science examination form for her and my brother, believing she’ll fail it. That year, she did so well in the exams and she got admission into the school without even a home tutor. It was a shock to everyone.

In the meantime, she was enjoying school with her boyfriend but one thing that was surprising to everyone was that she was doing very well in the same science school even better than my brother that we originally saw as the science student in the house. After she was done with high school, she finally gained admission into the University to study nursing. she graduated but the job she was getting was not paying well.

Around the year my mum died, my kid sister came to us and told us that she has changed her plans and that she is no longer interested in working as a nurse again, she wants to be a “fashion designer”. Our jaws just dropped down on our laps like all those cartoon characters. We were wondering….. this girl didn’t even go for something close to her career, it’s totally something we never imagined but there was nothing we could do. She’s a big girl now and she knows what is best for her. It turned out that fashion was indeed a blessing in disguise. She did so well in her new place that she was always booked by customers all the time and was able to buy herself a car and got a very big fashion house.

When we thought all was over, she woke up one day and told us that she has gotten a job at an NGO to work as a nurse and the pay is okay and she wanted to stop fashion designing. It doesn’t give her time for herself. You can imagine, the statement coming out from someone that is now a big brand in Abuja. We tried to convince her but her mind was already made up. Another sudden switch again in her life like chameleon… lol.

Due to the plenty customers she has, sewing became her side hustle because a lot of them kept begging her to sew for them. Her side hustled even paid her better than her actual job but she felt fulfilled as a nurse. She was doing pretty well for herself, unknown to us, she was working her visa to go London. She refused to tell us because she know we will definitely tease her because our big sister had tried couple of times but her visa wasn’t approved.

Well, God smiled on her and her visa was approved. Her NGO also assisted in doing some clarification when it came to questions related to her nursing career. She got over there thinking it was going to be easy task getting a job as a nurse but she was mistaken, there is whole lot involved. Her plans have to change again.

Well, she’s now a healthcare professional and have been working very hard to meet the requirements of becoming a nurse again. We keep praying for her and with God on her side, I know she will definitely get her dream job again.

So, When next you find yourself in a situation where things are not going as you predicted and you are now forced to change your plans, always have it mind that it’s not always a set back. It could be a blessing in disguise that may take you down a road that may turn out to be far better than even your previous plans. At that moment, just let go of the wheel, embrace where it takes you to and trust the process.

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