You guys don’t realize how much boarding school ruins you even as an adult.
It’s so crazy I was telling my friend I can almost always tell when a babe went to QC. Especially that 2010-2016 set.
Anytime I meet an extremely mean, nasty bully, 90% of the time she went to QC 🫠
my biggest fear in life is achieving some form of success before i’ve built the character required to sustain it. frankly, i enjoy humble beginnings, failure, and not knowing what to do immediately. it kills me, but i enjoy it.
In my third semester of medical school, I took a course called Molecular Biology.
I almost failed it because I missed a test that carried 40 marks as part of my continuous assessment, because I lost those 40 points, I knew I wasn’t going to get an A in the course.
I was so devastated by that thought that I decided I wanted to kill myself.
I got home, and I was planning to do it.
Then my friend called. (Feranmi)
She wasn’t calling because she knew what I was going through. She just wanted to check up on me.
We spoke about her day. We laughed about how disappointing Nigeria was. She told me about a poetry show she was planning l and how excited she was to see me attend it in Nigeria during the summer holidays.
I never told her that I was planning to kill myself.
But I cried during that phone call.
We eventually laughed it off because she thought I was just being emotional.
But that phone call saved my life.
And now, when I look back at that day, I realise how much life I would have missed.
I went on to finish medical school.
I became a doctor.
I’ve changed lives, and people have changed mine.
I’ve built something for myself.
And I still have a future.
There are people somewhere today who may be feeling exactly the way I felt that day.
I hope you see this and realise that this is not the end. Please stay.
Stay for the version of yourself you haven’t met yet.
Stay for the places you haven’t been.
The people you haven’t loved.
The lives you haven’t touched.
You deserve to live another day.
With love, from Faith 💜.
#worldsuicidepreventionday