Now That I'm a Graduate...

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I'm glad. I'm happy. I'm elated. By God's grace and mercy, I have bagged my first degree. I can't forget the feeling of satisfaction that pervaded my heart the moment our University Chancellor uttered the sentence "I accept you into your first degree" and our Registrar said "You may turn your tassels." Two days after my graduation (convocation), reality has slowly began to dawn on me. From this time henceforth, I am on my own. It's every man for himself now.

From what I've observed and what I have been told, this life I am about to commence is made up of countless people running a rat race. However, if there's anything I have come to learn from school in the last four years, it is that people who are walking in the center of God's plan for their lives do not run a rat race; albeit, they are running the marathon race of life. The night before we were released as 'Eagles' (as the graduates from my school, Covenant University, are always referred to), our Chancellor gave us 5 Perspectives for an Ever-Winning Life. I'd like to share these perspectives with you guys, hoping that you learn from and imbibe them as part of your life. Whether you are just graduating, you have just graduated, you graduated long ago or you're still an undergraduate, these five perspectives will be important to you if you must live a fulfilled life, and make heaven. They are:

Lost- A Poem by Ibukun Awosika (@Aunty_Hotstuff)

I'm lost,

Not the kind I used to be;

Lost and hopeless,

My future bleak.

Blinded by the world's lusts,

Sinful desires; my everyday muse.

Torn between light and dark,

The dark taking over.

I could not see it,

I did not know.

Ignorance lay in bed with me at night,

Regrets sat at the table with me by day.

I was lost and I didn't even know it.