It’s been 5 years since I lost my big brother.
He was my best friend, my protector, the person I told my secrets to, the one I made plans with for the future. The person who understood me without me even having to explain myself.
A big brother is one of the backbones of your journey through life.
They’re the person you look up to, compete with, laugh with, learn from, and lean on when life gets heavy. You grow up thinking they’ll always be there for every win, every loss, every late night conversation, every random phone call, every big moment.
Losing that changes you forever.
There’s not a single day that goes by where I don’t think about him. Certain songs, certain memories, certain moments in life still make me wish I could pick up the phone and call him one more time.
Sometimes I catch myself wanting to tell him about something exciting before realizing I can’t. That feeling never fully leaves.
If you still have your brother, hug him tighter. Tell him you love him. Spend more time with him. Stop taking the little moments for granted because one day those small moments become the memories you hold onto the most.
The laughs, the arguments, the drives, the dumb conversations at 2am, all of it matters more than you realize.
Life moves fast and we always think we have more time, until we don’t.
I’d give anything for one more conversation, one more laugh, one more memory.
Miss you every day bro.
5 years later and your impact on my life still lives through everything I do.
I know my soul yearns for greatness and excellence because it is capable of handling them.
I wouldn't yearn for these things if i couldn't handle them. There's absolutely nothing i cannot achieve, and conquer. As long as my soul wants to.🤍
Activities you do daily in life seem easy and always doable until you want to render it as a business or service.
Then you get humbled and realize you have just been playing all these while and you don’t know the business side to it.
You figure out you have to learn professionalism, discipline, precision, precautions, timeliness, integrity, customer communication and service and so on.
And the craziest part of this is that, you can try reading as much as possible, but only mentorship by a boss or experience can teach you the best, nothing else.
Making money only to lose it back to the market isn't something to be happy about.
Invest IRL, enjoy life and travel the world with your money and you'll never regret it.
The more you become a person of substance (investments, money, value, fame, businesses), the more careful you are about how you live.
The places you go to, the times you go there, what you eat and drink, how it is prepared, what gets your attention, your hygiene, your health, where you live, what you do, how you react to issues, who you have a relationship with, etc.
You find yourself paying attention to the little things you don’t before. Everything has to make sense and be intentional because there is a lot at stake. You don’t move like a non entity because you have a lot to lose.
As a boy raised with no silver spoon, connections and privileges, I’ve always dreamt big but you can’t dream what you’ve not seen.
Four years ago, I was satisfied with making $2000 monthly but I knew something was wrong with the satisfaction so I decided to expand my horizon by traveling out for the first time to Kenya. The trip singlehandedly contributed to my insane drive which pushed me to run up a lot of numbers to always live a good life and keep traveling.
The more I travel, the more I see. As I was seeing, I was documenting each experience on social media, most particularly my Instagram. Then I thought “why not let others see this too so they can have a taste of what good life is about?”. I brought in my friends, planned trips for them with zero stress and based on the kind of experiences they like. Their experience of traveling through me was like giving a baby an ice cream, so delicious, and giving someone a hot slap, very eye opening, so we traveled again, again and again, different countries, cultures, scenes.
I expanded further to process trips for other people, stress free and based on the kind of experiences they want, they liked it and this was how the travel company @wanderwithabdul was birthed.
With @wanderwithabdul, it was never about traveling only, it is about expanding the minds of people, giving them a chance to dream bigger and better and that’s what I aim to do with @BlockfestAfrica South Africa edition, great and eye opening experience for everyone coming.
After 4 years, I’ve been in 13 countries and still going strong, it wasn’t like I didn’t dream big, but you can only dream as far as you’ve seen. What you have not seen, you can never dream. Don’t let your geography constrict you, travel expands your horizon, perception of life, culture, wealth, everything, it forbids you from remaining small.
For every country I stepped my foot on, it opened up something in me I never thought I had before, the essence of life is to constantly grow and traveling fuels that continuously. This is the story of a young lad who had to see more to be more.