“The Sky is the limit” - Probably the most positive thing my parents ever said to me as a kid.
We often find ourselves limiting our worth and our abilities, especially at a young age because everyone else puts limits on you. From your schools to your families in a lot of cases. At 14 I went through self loathing and bullying for being an inner city estate kid, who was at a affluent high school and wasn’t a fit to the status quo, I even had a teacher who. told my parents I wasn’t worth the time. I got into a lot of things I shouldn’t have. I was never gonna bother with university. But my college tutor forced me to apply cos he valued me, more than I valued myself. To be honest at 18 I was ready to give up and again at 22. I remember being in bed jobless and hopeless, no idea how to get outta my own head and my Dad came to chat with me cos he sensed something was wrong.
Call it divine intervention or whatever but he told me two things:
1. Be proud to be a Showunmi.
2. The sky is the limit.
Just to let you know I didn’t have an epiphany there and then, but I can tell you that those two things he said to me are the only two truths I live by and remembering those two things saved my life in more ways than one.
We often find ourselves limiting our worth and our abilities, especially at a young age because everyone else puts limits on you. From your schools to your families in a lot of cases. At 14 I went through self loathing and bullying for being an inner city estate kid, who was at a affluent high school and wasn’t a fit to the status quo, I even had a teacher who. told my parents I wasn’t worth the time. I got into a lot of things I shouldn’t have. I was never gonna bother with university. But my college tutor forced me to apply cos he valued me, more than I valued myself. To be honest at 18 I was ready to give up and again at 22. I remember being in bed jobless and hopeless, no idea how to get outta my own head and my Dad came to chat with me cos he sensed something was wrong.
Call it divine intervention or whatever but he told me two things:
1. Be proud to be a Showunmi.
2. The sky is the limit.
Just to let you know I didn’t have an epiphany there and then, but I can tell you that those two things he said to me are the only two truths I live by and remembering those two things saved my life in more ways than one.
