The Journey So Rough, Yet So Smooth

God sure has a great sense of humour. It might sound so cliché but that is exactly the perfect definition of the turn out of events in my life right now.

At some point, I was both broke and broken… I was at crossroads of my life with no hope at sight. Life actually lost its taste or so I thought. I felt trapped, bogged down in the middle of nowhere and stuck in the mud.

Suddenly, I got an invitation for a BBC job application I made sometime in June. The application process took me days actually but resilience made me pull through it.

The aptitude test was one of its kind. I was placed at the window side of the very front row in the Westwood hotel venue.

I was somewhat tensed because unlike the school exams I had written in the past, I didn’t know what to expect — no iota of idea.

The question papers were passed with a cheerful warning from invigilators not to lay a hand on them until instructed otherwise.

The smile from the supervisors were so reassuring though. I looked through the wide glass straight down the cool sea beside us.

I found an unusual peace, an unusual serenity that only comes from nature. Asides having a great sense of humour, the creator must be a very creative artist.

If He could make the sea and all the wonders we behold in nature then what else can He not do….”, I asked myself in my reflection.

Upon instruction I, like every other person flipped through the sheets. Jeez! Tick tock, tick tock and it was ‘pens up’ time. What!!! I exclaimed loudly within me.

I should have written more but I resisted that temptation to go against instructions. I took the bottle of water right before me and calmed down afterwards and made my way outside the venue.

A few weeks later, I got an invite for the next stage of the recruitment process(the interview). Yay! Look how I made it!! I screamed from sheer excitement and then a fresh stage of preparation begun.

I studied everything I could lay my hands on. I opted for a mock interview at a career summit.

I left people wowed with my performance at the mock interview. A couple of people approached me afterwards to ask for my contact details. Two guys walked up to me at different times while I made to go home and said similar things.

“There’s something about you that the world really deserve. You have greatness within you. You will definitely make it to the top. Your potentials are one of a kind….”

There were more of those words actually which made me think deeper afterwards. I have always heard those ‘you will be a great woman…’ lines right from when I was one, if not from the womb.

So I nursed a feeling that this might be a step closer to achieving the much anticipated greatness.

At last, the much anticipated interview day finally came and the panelists were lit, I mean, they had fire in their bones. ‘Did I impress them?”… Was one question I lived with for weeks.

Well…. I was so sure I was going to be called up for the job because that was an outstanding performance by my own discretion. I even had to point out an error on the website which nobody spotted prior to the time and the panelists were left dazed.

The interviewers assured that they will call back within two weeks and the wait began.

I wished I could draw the time with my hands and put an end to the suspense. I got a notification on LinkedIn that BBC viewed my profile.

I was convinced I already had the job but at the end of the two weeks I didn’t hear from them. I waited for an extra one week to be sure they were not just taking their time.

Oh well, two weeks turned into a whole month and I decided to contact them myself.

They broke the news ‘we are afraid you were not successful at this time”. A normal human would be depressed in a minute but I’ve been hit by worse things of life so I took it as one of those things and sailed on.

It was in the process of moving on that I started a journey into self discovery. There is a part of me that needed to be tapped but had been lying fallow.

While I still wallowed in my thoughts, I made a decision to travel. I am an adventurous person.

So I moved to another location where I spent so much time with a childhood friend with whom I could discuss anything. It was a fun-filled trip before I subsequently moved to a different state all together.

On my second trip, I was called for a job interview which I was reluctant to oblige initially.

I eventually gave it a try and I got the job!! It all happened like a magic, because for a fact, I wasn’t looking for a job at the time.

The job has helped me tap into that part of me that I have always wanted to tap into and the experience is worth the while all the way.

Have I arrived yet? N to the O. This is only but the beginning.