7Zero

Some refer to certain time of your life according to the seasons. If I had the power to choose a season to live in – like so many others – I will choose ‘Spring’. I do not think it is anything to do with being born in Spring either. Why? because where I grew up – it was either wet season or dry season.

Now, some days I wake up to dull grey mornings or bright crispy ones with frost on the ground. Sun already rising some morning by 5.00am or already dark by 4.00pm. Sometimes it snows and sometimes the sun shines until very late. Where Spring changes to Summer to Autumn to Winter. So yes! I can see the poetry in likening life to the season.

So these day, I wake up to what must be the Autumn of my life – Now we will talk about 7Zero. A season of my life which I must prepare for. I have already frolicked in the Spring time, basked in the glorious Summer days and as I start this journey , you are welcome to walk with me.

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.

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