My birthday is in a day seeing that it’s 00:19 right now, maybe somewhere in the world it’s already the 7th February…. I’m turning… well the title gives it away. You gotta be a lil smart to guess this one. It’s not a complex hint but if you’re an old soul that doesn’t follow trends and this boujee language we speak these days it might be a lil tricky for you….HINT: BASKETBALL

I have a love hate relationship with this day and the hate is absolutely induced by people. For as long as I can remember, rather from as long as I’ve known that birthdays are important I’ve always gotten the excuse “oh my God I am so broke, wish your birthday wasn’t at the beginning of the month like it is“….the statement could be true but it’s so hard for me to react to that. Honestly what is a person trying to say that they understand that it’s my birthday and had I picked a more convenient date to be born they’d get me something? I mean I get it but if I got 1 maloti each time a person said that? Surely I’d have a lot of money to spend and spoil myself how I want to. I’m really just tired of hearing the same excuse over and over again each year. I really wish they’d wish me a happy birthday and keep it moving…the explanation is not necessary. Anyway…enough about the hate part…

Now I believe in numbers and I believe the number 7 is a good number…might sound cliche but I really do believe in it. I see it and have the feeling that everything is going to be alright. I really sound like a Chakra hun right now. I think about a lot of different dates and months in the year and I really wouldn’t choose to be born on a different date. I’m a 7th February girl and I am so excited about the new chapter. I hope it’s filled with blessings, I need my cup to run over this year. I want to see God’s greatness in my life. I really need him to show off with me. To use me to restore faith in the lives of anyone whose has been lacking. I need him to take control, to bless me with blessings I deserve

This year is a little different because in a few months I’ll be a degreed hun. Round 5 of 5 about to be complete. I think I need to write this everywhere until it sinks in that I’m going to be an LLB honors degree holder!! Now I’m not jinxing this and I know no amount of saying it out loud will jinx it because this is my path… the one God has chosen for me. And I believe that in this path he’ll be guiding me every step of the way and he’ll be opening the necessary doors and keeping harm out of my way. I’m a lil emotional typing this because this is a manifestation into the universe, a manifestation to God and I know he’s listening and he’ll make way.

So to the scared little girl inside, I’m doing this for you babygirl…to make you proud because the one thing you’ve always done is to believe that you can do this…. from the moment you were fascinated by the word “lawyer” in pre-school because you had successfully defended one of your classmates in front of the teacher from an argument that started on the playground… to your teacher letting you wear the cute little hoodie on graduation that signified that you’d grow up to be a lawyer. To you wanting to go to Harvard law school even though you knew it was out of reach to you being admitted to law school at NUL to you being in your final year and graduating in a few months. You’re doing good babygirl!! Sometimes I think that my pre-school teacher saw so much potential in me and spoke my destiny into the universe and now what I’m doing is fulfilling our wishes… I bet she would be proud.

So here’s to a beginning of a new chapter and great things ahead!!! Here’s to 23!!!