3 Reasons Why 2020 Was A Good Year

 

Did you make the most out of 2020?

 It is normal to be alone, but never ordinary being lonely.

Many people are suffering due to the pandemic this year. History has repeated itself and has written itself down for future reference. However, there are but a few who were able to acquire skills and tactics in handling the food shortage, low income, and loss of employment. These skills have been there for a lifetime, and surprisingly many people do not want to talk about them.

Writing is a skill usually overlooked by many. Let me tell you a short story.

In the beginning, I used to work in the “Juakali” industry. Every morning started off with a simple prayer for the family and me. By then I was single and living in a land of extreme temperatures during the day. I woke and went to the unfinished buildings, I would talk to the foreman for a chance, which I usually got. The pay was five dollars on a good day or sometimes three dollars when you had nothing to lose. I would go to class in college by then, that is how I found myself in the land of “Masaku”, a man who foresaw the colonization of our country sitting on a small chair on a hill way back before independence. At first, after I was unable to pay for my basic needs in college, I looked for more ways to support myself, every day. I may have done a ton of jobs, from 2013, but I will never forget about the first formal employment, two years ago.

In 2018, I started working at a supermarket store as a sales representative. I learned about customer service and got interested in customer satisfaction. I began teaching myself how to do articles and scriptwriting as a way of releasing the guilt of failure. Slowly, I started writing, and finally, I became a tutor. I was able to support my weak salary as a sales assistance, and mostly, the payment surpassed my full-time employment salary. I was only writing as a part-time thing.

The beginning of this year, some of the employees were laid off, salaries cut and many unpredictable things happened at the workplace. We started gagging ourselves with masks that made it extremely terrible to breathe. We did it to save our lives anyway. Washing hands and burning my skin with sanitizers. I sometimes thought the sanitizers were counterfeit enough to burn out my skin. I experienced deep pressure especially from customers, asking me what the hell was going on. My answer was, “I was hoping you could tell me,  customer.”

This brings me to the three reasons why my year was good.

1. Extra Income

While working in the supermarket, I was able to share stories with the customers and they too had ways of conquering the hard times. Most of them ran businesses from home, while others had online jobs already. Those that caught my attention were the ones who loved to tell stories. I learned how to tell a story about businesses and it became invaluable to many of the clients I began working with. I got a content creation contract and began earning extra income, still working full-time employment, which I later found the courage to resign from.

2. Start-Up Opportunities

Being employed made me into somebody else. I would follow instructions and wait for plans from my boss. It took me a while to realize that some of the plans he was creating were not the best of options for their businesses. I tried to forward my concerns but as it stands, in Kenya, it is not the best of places to try and change the system of any job opportunity. One may need more than a pair of brains and a caring heart to make things happen. Therefore, I decided to use my salary as a capital investment for my own plans. I discovered it is easier to work for yourself than for somebody else. Not the effort measure of it, but the motivational aspect of working. I work best when I’m happy, therefore, let me work for myself.

Limitless opportunities emerged and I experienced a lifestyle that only existed in my dreams. I was able to conduct research before deciding on any venture. I am able to handle customer engagement online, something that is rare but vital for any business. What makes me happier is my happy customers.

 3. Peace of Mind

It is easily ignored that our emotional control counts in every single decision we make. Whether it is the food we feel like eating, the kind of girl we want, or the places we feel like living in. our emotional stability highly affects our smallest decisions. These small decisions affect our major outcomes. Therefore, our whole life is dependent on how we feel about things. I will share more on that as we head toward 2021. One of my major resolutions every year, every month and every day is to make sure that I remain strong inside no matter what may come. I achieved a deep sense of being this year, seeing people run around in fear. At the beginning of the year, as I was working in the supermarket, I saw most of my mentors and friends, by then, being afraid and unstable because the “world was coming to an end”. I stayed still since my father always taught me to never fear death, it is normal to die. What is not normal is for the body to live forever. How we live forever, is by doing good for others, because stories will be told, and our words will remain. I was able to be confident and I lived through waiting, protecting myself and those nearby, respecting the social distance, and sanitizing, although the chemicals burnt my sensitive skin. I stood strong inside and here we are. Strong together for another pandemic until we find where we truly should be. That wholly depends on how you feel about everything.

 As we head towards a new year, a new time to make life better, or praying it remains better, we must learn how to be good by Earning An Extra Income, Starting-Up New Opportunities For Deserving Customers and Having A Peace Of Mind. Let us also remember that we are special and we are all story tellers.

Leave a comment below, and let me know what you think about it. Share with people who may need a friend to remind them that the good old days are back, updated and the future will always remain brighter than yesterday. Thanks to “GLOBAL WARMING”

Have Yourself A Merry Christmas!!!