Isn't technology amazing? Can you imagine our lives without the internet? The net has helped me make friends with people I have never met. I belong to a certain support group and everyday, people share what they are going through, their fears, challenges and battles they have won and it has been an encouragement to me.
In the group, people ask questions and others willingly answer from their personal experiences. It has helped me appreciate the experiences I have gone through in life. One day, I asked a mum why she shares their experience through a blog and she said " believe it or not, I am a very private person. One thing I learned through our son is that our lives are not our story, but God's story. We do not tell our stories so that people think we are wonderful, but tell them so they can see that through our weakness God's strength shines."
I was greatly humbled by that response and that's how I got the guts to share my life with people through this blog. A friend commented that its very bold of me to share with the whole world my story. I agreed and thought to myself,if someone somewhere can learn from me and my experiences both good and not so good then its worth sharing my story.
A close friend of mine always laments at how in Africa, maybe because of our culture, we do not like to share our stories with others. This is because we do not want to show our weaknesses/struggles. One would rather suffer in silence than appear "weak" before others. I challenge us today, in our own small worlds, to learn to share our experiences so as to help others avoid the mistakes we made and to also be successful. As the saying goes, life is too short to repeat mistakes others made,so let us learn from other people and live life to the full.
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