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Cashier, customer's representative and accountant @ EB POLY LEATHER COMPANY GOMBE STATE
Gombe, Nigeria
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THE MIRROR AND THE LESSONS
<p>I stand quietly in front of the mirror sometimes and really look at the person staring back at me.</p><p>Not just the face.</p><p>The story.</p><p>The lines from laughter.</p><p>The tired eyes that have cried more tears than most people will ever know.</p><p>The scars nobody can see.</p><p>And you know what?</p><p>I wouldn’t change any of it.</p><p>Not the heartbreak.</p><p>Not the failures.</p><p>Not even the storms that brought me to my knees.</p><p>Because every damn one of them helped create the person standing here now.</p><p>There were days I had no idea how I was going to make it through.</p><p>Nights when I wondered how much more one heart could take.</p><p>Moments when getting back up felt impossible.</p><p>But somehow…</p><p>I did.</p><p>Every time.</p><p>I wiped the tears away.</p><p>Picked up the pieces.</p><p>Dusted myself off.</p><p>And rose again.</p><p>Maybe bruised.</p><p>Maybe a little more guarded.</p><p>But always stronger.</p><p>I learned how to find light in dark places.</p><p>How to make peace with chapters I never wanted.</p><p>How to heal wounds I didn’t deserve.</p><p>And most importantly, I learned that I am far stronger than I ever gave myself credit for.</p><p>Sure, there are still days when life gets heavy.</p><p>I still cry.</p><p>I still wish sometimes that I had someone beside me to carry a little of the weight.</p><p>But needing love doesn’t make me weak.</p><p>I simply know now that I don’t need anyone to save me.</p><p>I already learned how to save myself.</p><p>So don’t look at me with pity because of what I’ve survived.</p><p>Look at me and see the warrior those battles created.</p><p>Everything I have fought for.</p><p>Everything I have healed from.</p><p>Everything I have become.</p><p>I earned it.</p><p>And I’m damn proud of that.</p><p>When I look in the mirror now, I don’t see someone getting older.</p><p>I see someone becoming stronger.</p><p>Wiser.</p><p>More peaceful.</p><p>More fearless.</p><p>I know storms will come again.</p><p>That’s life.</p><p>But those storms should remember something:</p><p>They’ve tried to break me before.</p><p>They failed.</p><p>I got this.</p><p>I always have.</p><p>And darling,</p><p>I always will.</p><p>Because I’m not dangerous simply because I’m strong…</p><p>I’m dangerous to anything that thinks it can keep me down.</p><p>Today,</p>
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