There’s a saying watch your child at 7 and see what they do : if they’re writing stories, drawing, building Lego, tending to their siblings cuts and bruises, driving a toy car, standing up for their siblings, playing with toy planes, working with numbers, dressing up and signing autographs.
When we were kids we were innocent, oblivious to the struggles of adult life, ignorant of all the disappointment and discouragement the world throws at us. We believed in what we wanted to be. Either an astronaut to an air hostess and our believe never wavered.
Some of us are lucky, we dreamt of building stuff or saving lives etc and so we trained to become an engineer, a lawyer, a doctor, a banker and society and our African culture accepted us without having blinking an eye because those are our “ideal jobs”
Why should other’s then always have to justify the reason why they chose against what are considered ideal jobs ?
“Why acting?” They say “Are you sure that’s stable enough, are you sure you don’t want to add law or medicine on the side?” The amount of times I’ve heard that in my life time is unbelievable really.
Unfortunately enough sometimes I sit in my room and contemplate why the fuck am I even trying. I let people’s doubts for the path I have set myself on affect me and in turn I became insecure. I love to act, sing and dance. It’s my escape it’s where I am most happiest. I shine and you can tell I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Why leave that for something I half love..
How many of us can say we are doing what we really want to do?
What’s wrong with writing stories, poems for a living?
What’s wrong with acting or performing for a living?
What’s wrong with drawing for a living?
What’s wrong with following the arts as a form of bringing money in?
What’s wrong with following something you love?
Yes it may not be a guaranteed paycheck. But I’d rather do something I love than settle for something that I half enjoy.
Now I am not hating on the lawyers and the doctors etc, i’m not even focusing on the arts. In focusing on our desires our dreams. I thank the lord for the likes of idris Elba and Abraham attah, our fashion designers out there, our artists they are making it possible for Ghanaians to realize the arts aren’t a bad thing..
It’s never to late.
Be what you want to be.
Don’t let society stop you.
Nothing is impossible if you God on your side and if it is his will God will make a way.
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