Essence of a Woman

Hello beautiful ladies of steem for ladies, how are you all doing? It's good to be here. I'm @destinedhanik from Nigeria. I'll be talking about myself as a woman in this contest by @fannyescobar. As we all know, a woman is a unique creature created by God, a mother, a weajer vessel but the strongest gender. So stay tune as I use myself as an example.

As a woman that I am, though I would have loved to spend much time on myself, but I usually have different engagement that takes up my time. Though we have 24 hours in a day, I can say that out of these 24 hours, I spend only about 6 hours on myself excluding bedtime. This is because I don't even have alone time as my house is always filled with people. And also, there is always work to go to, food to cook for everyone and others. The six hours is gotten from my morning time when I wake up, that is 3 hours in the morning on a weekend and three hours before bedtime at night. But during this weekend, I take time to do my personal cleanliness pertaining to my personal health and sanitary. I rarely eben have time to go somewhere and spend time all on my own because there are always activities to do.

I can say it's not easy managing my daily tasks coupled with being a teacher in a private school. So I try to create room to achieve everything on my list. This means that different things are scheduled for different days.

• Example, mopping the house is strictly on Saturdays when I don't wake up early to beat traffic and arrive at work on time.

Thorough sweeping and mopping is on Saturdays

• Also, I take my time to take care of my body on Saturdays too, so Saturday morning is always busy for me. I try my best to exercise and I take my time to wash and clean my body, I also do my face scrub and other things strictly on Saturdays.

Unfortunately,I don't really have that space I need as a woman since I'm not living alone but I try to manage fir now until I'm financially capable of getting my own place.

The truth is I long for so many things now.

• Materially, I long to be able to afford my necessities comfortably, but currently, whatever I have to get, it has to be in order of priority.

• Academically, I long to have a PGD in education. This has been my long term goal but since I have been working in the private sector which isn't reliable in terms of salary, I have been unable to achieve this goal.

• I would also love to have a permanent job that can cater for my needs and also cater for others comfortably. I would have loved to have more than one source of income and be financially stable. Another goal this year is living in my own.

• I would love to have this peace and love radiating from me and around me, good health is one of my goals this year, among others. Without food health, one can't achieve anything and it is one of my goals.

As a woman, I enjoy different activities chiefs among them which is cooking. Every woman loves her space and as a mother loves making meals and it is one activity I enjoy carrying out. I also enjoy drawing, drawing makes me happy and helps me forget the stress of the day.

It was years I hadn't gone out with friends to share some quality time coz my friend was in another time but fortunately, during the Christmas season, we found ourselves in the same town abs we shared quality time together. We had lots of fun and laughed over so many things. Sharing quality time with a friend makes one forget what he or she is going through for a while. So, since this January began, I have not gone out to spend quality time with my friend due to work and I know I won't for long cos I'm choked up with work.

Shared quality time with my friend

• I am very emotional tho I'm aldo disciplined.

• I'm emphatic and sympathetic.

• I persevere in the face of circumstances. This means I'm a go getter.

• I'm prayerful and full of faith.

• I'm tolerant to some extent.

Just to mention a few of the characteristics that define my essence as a woman.