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Creative Writer | History Student | Learning People and Processes @ Lagos State University
Dear Future,
<p>Hi… hello.</p><p><br/></p><p>I don’t know, I’m very skeptical right now. I keep wondering what the future really holds for me. I find myself in this mental space where everything feels uncertain. Some might call it low self-esteem, but honestly, it's deeper than that. It’s this quiet thought that just maybe… I might not make it in life.</p><p><br/></p><p>Just maybe… I won’t be that “big person” I always dreamed of becoming. </p><p>Just maybe… I won’t have all the money I imagine myself with in my daydreams. </p><p>Just maybe… I won’t find my prince charming. </p><p>Just maybe… I won’t have the children I dream of or the number of kids I hope to have. </p><p>Just maybe… I won’t even be there. I might not live to see that future.</p><p><br/></p><p>I know people might say this sounds scary or dark, but this is my truth. Life holds so many unknowns. Anything can happen. And sometimes, just maybe, things won’t go as planned.</p><p><br/></p><p>Just maybe… I’ll be a single mother. </p><p>Just maybe… I’ll become a surrogate. </p><p>Just maybe… I’ll struggle with fertility. </p><p>Just maybe… the very things I fear about marriage could become my reality. </p><p>Just maybe… the dream marriage I see in my head might come with its own thorns.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe… I’ll have someone who’s not loving. </p><p>Maybe… I won’t be the boss lady I imagined. </p><p>Maybe… I’ll fall short of financial freedom, independence, peace. </p><p>Maybe… I won’t create the picture-perfect life I always daydream about.</p><p><br/></p><p>But just maybe, that’s okay.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because the future is pregnant full of uncertainties, full of surprises. No one can truly predict how it’ll turn out. I wish we could, but we can’t. So here I am… left with my “just maybes.”</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe, that’s how it’s meant to be.</p><p><br/></p><p>— Nancy<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/a55aafe3b40dae55ab03320b06a96230.jpg" style="background-color: transparent;"/></p>
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