2013 and Beyond

Often time we begin new years with new resolutions; some are actually crazy! "I want to become the president of Uganda this year" and you well know Uganda's elections are in 2016. Probably you want to set up a coup but I wonder where you will find the "bushes" for we seem to be on a spree to rip them all away from our maps.

As I discussed with the fellow young people at WRITING OUR WORLD today, I realized that we need to do much more to achieve what we set out to do. Many a times we get discouraged because we once dreamed and our aspirations came to naught; we therefore despair and swear never to dream again, never to set targets and never to even have the simplest order in our lives. We therefore cast our lives to chance and let whatever comes our way come.

This year, I want to encourage you to test yourself. Dare to DREAM. To dream is to close your eyes and see yourself in that exact position you want yourself in months from today. Tell you what I see when I close my eyes? I see a white Super Custom van branded in Writing Our World colours, I see myself in Hamburg in May attending the 10 week D&F Academy fellowship, I see myself finishing school and embarking on my career, I see Writing Our World growing into a professional young peoples' NGO....I see lots of things when I close my eyes. Now, I know that some of these dreams may not be achieved in the time scale that I will; but it gives me the purpose to live each day, to work each day for I know where I want to be. It is said that if you do not know where you are going, then, any road you take will lead you there.

I am wishing you all a splendid 2013 following nothing but your dreams. We all have it in us to be what we want to be. We just have to work hard at it, just like I am doing to revive my blog. It doesn't matter how many times I fail, I will keep getting myself up and trying again.