Written in these few pages are the stories I remember, a keen representation of life still in progress. William Shakespeare once said,” All can succeed but it all rests on you”. As my usual slogan reechoes, I keep my Faith rudely stubborn and I believe absolutely in time. Time flies, time heals, time reveals. I send a heartfelt greeting to every Hiver reading this right now.
Indeed, Time flies, as most of us will attest to. Nevertheless, we’ve got to move alongside, whether fast or not, progress is what matters, every day of our lives, we choose to survive or drown, and in keeping a stubborn faith, survival is the deal. Talking about progress, I don’t know the exact description to give to mine. One certainty is that in these few chapters of my life so far, I have been through the different phases life could throw at anyone’s feet. The bigger question is, how do we respond to all of these adversities? Keep striving.
Before I delve into the detailed fragments of my introductory blog, I want to take a special moment to show appreciation to my very good comrade, Abdul Wahab (@abdul01), for showing me to the Hive community, we have known ourselves for quite a short while now, about 3 months, and these few months have been part of the best moments I can share. We met at an agritech challenge over here in Ghana, meant to challenge the youth, to be able to come out with brilliant, yet innovative ideas around the agricultural value chain. Indeed, your selflessness has no boundaries and for wanting always to uplift others in your small ways, God will uplift you, brother. I can go on and on about you, especially the time we spent together when we embarked on a tour to a rural suburb over here, I think I will save that for another time.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
The tough journey started on the 14th of September 2002, when my mom’s “water broke” (prelabour rupture of membranes) and she wailed me out with the assistance of a TBA (Traditional birth attendant), in a remote community along the TAMALE- DAMONGO stretch called Mempeasem. Wondering what might have happened to the hospital. There was none in that small community and the road to the district hospital was in a deplorable state, that is where my father hails, and culture demands that my mother stay there throughout the pregnancy period. Fascinating right? What happened with all the immediate attention given to neonates at the hospital once they were born? From vital vaccines to key complications associated with childbirth? I think I’ve been a survivor since my first breath. Now let’s meet this survivor.
My name is Mumuni Omega Wumnaya Abdul Kabir, a 20-year-old boy, from a family of 4 I have my mother, 2 beautiful sisters, and myself. I’m 5.5 cm tall, weigh 65kg, fair in complexion, and Muslim by religion. I reside in Tamale, a city in Ghana with my family. We moved up here when I was 5, but I originally hail from a town called Damongo, as I earlier mentioned. Over here in Ghana, there are so many tribes or ethnic groups, I belong to the Gonja tribe, and Gonja occupies the Savannah region of Ghana. I don’t know how many of you have been to this beautiful country Ghana, west Africa, and so many attractive places to tour, I love my country and will share more about Ghana in my subsequent blogs, so that you may as well consider coming for your next vacation trips. I am studying at the University for Development Studies here in Tamale, where I offer a B.Sc. In nursing, I’ve been very passionate about caring for others and reducing or helping to alleviate their pain, which is the reason I considered a career path in Healthcare. More of my inspiration for going into the nursing field came after my dad had a fatal accident in March 2017 and was hospitalized till he could no longer hold. Borrowing the words of a renowned African writer, Chenu Achebe, during those days in 2017, “Things fell apart, and the center could no longer hold”. But with so much courage driven by my super mother, I am here today, still keeping my faith stubborn. My mom has been through so many adversities in life, with the worst of it being around her marriage, yet she can blend all of that with our upkeep and survival through her teaching profession. How many of us can tell the feeling of a failed relationship? The feeling of being let down? Unbearable right? Here’s a woman who has been in and out of marriages and let down on both occasions. I refer to her as my immediate role model because of all of the virtues I go by, I tapped from her, from patience to never giving up and any other positive virtue that makes me who I am now. After my dad’s demise in 2017, almost everything came to a standstill. I was left at the crossroads, not knowing exactly where to pick up from, I always pray for his soul to keep resting till we meet again. The daily struggles persist, but I keep a stubborn faith and keep striving.
REASONS FOR JOINING HIVE
Hello lovely Hivers, in this part of my intro blog I share with you the core reasons I joined the hive community. I’ll start with a quote from Dr. Ben Carson that says; “It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world”. Writing has been my passion since my primary school years, and all through that time, I’ve ventured into several writing competitions and spaces, I believe strongly that the power to articulate one’s thoughts through writing allows one to share one’s innate beliefs, ideas and principles to the rest of the society. Social media could be a lifesaving network, to a large extent, depending on what it is used to propagate. Amid daily struggles, it takes a second to make people smile all across these social media platforms, through positive, motivating, and therapeutic write-ups. Yes, the therapeutic writer, that’s who I dream of becoming. In my part of the world where platforms like hive are hard to come by, I believe that joining hive will provide me the right platform to build on my writing passion, fulfill my therapeutic bit through motivation and insightful write-ups, also serve as the right opportunity to network with individuals across the globe, an opportunity to show to rest of the world what my part of the world is made of and above all an extra income source to assist my striving family.
LIKES, HOBBIES, and INTEREST.
Fast forward to my hobbies and likes, I’m a quite simple gentleman, I keep a really small circle of friends but am easy to go with, once I connect with people who share the same energy as I do. I like to play football (I play for my class team, the BEES FC), listen to music (most often), and Read books at the library to build more on my vocabulary skills and to be more creatively inclined. I love biking, traveling to see new places, and watching movies. My spirit animal is the eagle, I admire the qualities it is naturally endowed with, notably determination, persistence, and resilience. When I find the least space, I want to write and learn something new, especially in my field as a healthcare professional to maintain a great level of competence. I’m interested in a few things I believe I was built for, which are; leadership, contributing my quota to saving the earth through partaking in climate-smart programs and advocacy, and inspiring others through my small ways.
#DISLIKES AND FEARS
I admire the very renowned English playwright and poet, William Shakespeare for lots of his words and quotes, he said in one of them that, “Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly”. God is the master architect, in stressful situations, his design has a compartment known as the sympathetic nervous system that is supposed to help the body activate its fight or flight response by release of hormones. Shakespeare’s quote suggests that extreme fear hypnotizes these fight or flight responses, meaning when you allow extreme fear to set in, you lose the fighting part of you. I harbor within me some fears, which I don’t succumb to anyway. After long years of striving hard, the thought of not making it as big as I anticipate is one part of my greatest fear. This is not to say I’m not a hard worker enough, or I don’t believe enough. As a spiritually oriented person, I believe also in fate and how things are meant to go, as such whenever I encounter this fear, I stop to think about what was said in the book “The Alchemist” that “at a certain point in our lives, we lose control over what’s happening to us and our lives becomes controlled by fate”. Another fear I’ll be sharing is the thought of losing my mother to death before I make it big in life, May the God I pray to grant her more and more years to reap the fruit of her labor. With all of these fears, I maintain a highly positive mindset made of huge packs of hopefulness and a very stubborn faith. A little about dislike, I despise the company of people who are dishonest, discourage others, gossip, and constantly want to take advantage of others.
It's Omega here again, I don’t know the right units in which I could quantify how elated I am to be a part of this exciting and educative network. Days ago, when I got an invite and decided to walk through the home page of this platform, I knew I was finally home. The joy of coming across the hive network rang in my head like an astronaut who has finally made his way to Space. Affirmatively, this is “SPACE” for me to thrive, I believe with the same spirit of togetherness and support from the Hive community, I will be able to discover and uncover what my true potentials are and how to use them to impact the world. ” Problems”, is just a word form of what we go through daily as humans, and amid any form of adversity, I urge that you keep a rudely stubborn faith and keep striving, that way, the balance with your mental health status is maintained, and the sky will become your beginning in a long run.
I will borrow the words of a good comrade, “I got here late, but early enough”, and I believe with your massive welcoming, I would find the right foundation to start this transformative journey on Hive.
Thank you for the time……. Love you all.
