2025 Wrapped

It’s the end of the year and I started a blog. Pheew… This sure was not on the cards, or so I thought. It seemed so random but a chat with a friend of mine reminded me that it has been a long time coming. I did not know what it would look like, but this is it. Eureka I guess!

Okay back to the post, firstly, welcome to my first blog. I ordered a bottle of champagne to celebrate this milestone because one thing about me, I’m the Queen of new ideas and adventures but never implementing. With all the work and effort that goes into putting this blog together, I actually saw it through. I didn’t postpone, nor did I leave it for later. Nothing could actually make me put it off and that for me is a big deal. A moment to raise a toast. I guess this is another thing that has been added to the long list of the things that I am figuring out in my 30s.

2025 wrapped, truth is I went in 2025 with one request from God, which is rest and peace because one thing 2024 showed me was DUST okay. It was such a hard year and required so much from me by December all I wanted was nothing but rest. I was not even looking forward to 2025. I was tired emotionally, physically and mentally. Thank God that 2025 was such a delightful year. There were hiccups here and there but not enough to break me, in fact they were so small I would need time to actually remember what they were. One of my highlights was finally completing my masters degree, YALL!!!!! It took me 7 years but we did it joe. One of my favourite tsonga saying which goes “Swito teka nkarhi, mara kufika hita fika, swinge endleki swinga endleki”, loosely translated as “it may take time, but we will get there eventually, there is no way it wont happen!!!”. I love it so much because I am such a big believer of things working out in the end, we just need to be patient, stay the course and most importantly never stop putting in the work.  A look back at 2025, it was an affirmation of this very thing. I experienced a lot of FIRSTs, things most people would probably say I was overdue for, but for me nothing is ever late, everything happens at the right time.  

Year 33 came with a lot of firsts, one of them was taking up running. I never saw myself as a runner in fact I had always said that my physic was not meant for running, yes lets laugh together. Truth is the only things that are impossible are the ones we have allowed to be, otherwise we can achieve anything and everything we set our mind to. 2025 was also the year where I travelled out of the continent for the first time ever and the year I wrote my first academic paper. It felt like the year where I slowly returned to my younger self, something about turning 33 and being at your peak or whatever the internet says.

I hope you enjoyed reading my very first blog, here, you’ll find my honest thoughts, random discoveries, reviews and everything I’m learning as I navigate my 30s.