WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DECIDE TO FIND YOURSELF?

An exploration of faith, culture, tradition, identity, and the courage to choose your own life. There is something deeply powerful about this story, and I don't think it is simply about a girl who wants to make her own decisions. It is about a girl who grew up being told what was right, what was acceptable, what was godly, what was respectful, and what a good daughter should look like. A girl who learned to obey before she learned to question. A girl who learned to seek God's permission before she learned to recognise her own convictions. A girl who was taught that certain decisions were too important to be made without the approval of culture, family, religion, and the people who had lived before her. And then, one day, she began to wonder. What if I want something different? What if the life I want does not look like the life everyone has imagined for me? What if I love God but do not agree with every religious expectation placed upon me? What if I respect my culture but do not want every aspect of it to become a rule for my existence? What if I want to get married, but I want to understand marriage beyond the way society has presented it to me? What if I want to make a decision simply because I have thought about it, considered its consequences, and arrived at a conviction? Must I hear an audible voice from heaven before I am allowed to trust the wisdom God has helped me develop? And perhaps the most uncomfortable question of all: What happens when I become a person my upbringing did not prepare my family to understand? This is where Tola's story begins to mean something. Not because she wants to rebel. Not necessarily because she wants to abandon everything she has been taught. But because she wants to discover which parts of her life she has genuinely chosen and which parts she has simply inherited. And that distinction matters. Because there is a difference between living by conviction and living by instruction alone. There is a difference between choosing a way of life because you believe in it and choosing it because you are afraid of what might happen if you don't. And there is a difference between honouring your roots and being unable to grow beyond them. We'll explore the heart of this story in the next episode Be free to disagree Byeeeee🤍

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