Which Generation are You part 2

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I wasn’t raised with a silver spoon in my mouth nor was raised with a passport in my hand to travel the universe whenever I wanted. As a child I had days when I wished I had been one of the privileged, one that would not have to wonder if the meal I was eating was the last one or if I would actually have lunch for school in the morning but I did and today as I stand to the in the land of the liberated I am truly happy that I did come from such background so that I may acquire the traits that I now posses and I can truly say that I am in the journey of saying I have made it and if I had to describe my success it wouldn’t be in monetary terms at all but rather the breaking away for the stereotype of just because you grew up in a certain environment that means I was destined to die in it. I am the first one in my family to go to University, the first one to jet off in a plane for a different country.

I wonder with 60 % of the population in Africa being under the age of 25 how many of our youth can say the same thing about their lives.

I have not made on my own, No, I had help along the way, people that believed in me and pushed me to realize the potential I possessed and what I could be if only I left the self pity party and reach for what I want and drab it with both hands and not let it go when I do get it and it is those people that have created my success and I am mightily grateful to each and everyone of them.

Paulo Coelho says in his book the Alchemist “if when you want something, the entire universe conspires in helping you to achieve it” and I believe that is what happened with my internship this year. I am currently interning in an Organization that empowers woman to break ground, to run for office in their countries to sustain them selves economically and their communities and couldn’t have asked for a better place to spend my vacation. My internship allows me to finds out about the struggles of women in Africa that come from the same background as me but they have successes beyond what they themselves would have possibly dreamt of. I am truly privilege of this chance.

Going back to the theme of my blog which generation I am I hope by now you can draw your own conclusion and internalize the question to you which generation are you?