Marian Croak is the Inventor of the tech powering Zoom, FaceTime & WhatsApp.
She Holds 200+ patents and was Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. 🌟
I have entered my season of MORE!!!
4 decades!! Thank you Jesus Christ!
My heart is too full of gratitude and thanksgiving!
Happy birthday to me 🎂🎂🎂💃🏾💃🏾
Today I am 50! I remember a time when I thought 30 is quite old , 40 is really really old and 50 is one step away from death . Today I am 50. I knew it was coming . It was so far and yet approaching so slow . It creeps on you bit by bit. And you wake up and you are 50. At the age of 20 you feel you are already tired , exhausted. You can’t imagine going on 30 more years like that. And yet , you do. You are there . You wake up and you are 50. Maybe there is one thing you wish you didn’t leave behind. Youth. Ohhhhh Youth! What a wasted potential on people who still have it . You see? I am already sounding as grumpy man who just turned 50! You want to hold on whatever remains of youth you have . You want to look younger , feel younger , be younger. The fake humility you pretend to show whenever someone tells you “oh but you look great for 50” . Rule of thumb: if people start telling you : “you look good for your age.”
Buddy , you have aged .
Imagine someone tells you :” you look great for 20.” You will punch them in face. Today I am 50. A day that I might have dreaded seeing wrinkles and furrows on my face and people close to you trying to convince you to do “something” for the wrinkles and the grey hair . And they utter the magical words : “so you can look, you know , YOUNGER” . Yes here it is. YOUNGER. Our Kryptonite, our Achilles heel, our Holy Grail , our pain our desires our needs our insecurities our life potion our happiness and our grief … all at once . YOUNGER. Well I am not . I am 50. And I am now more familiar, more friendlier and even more in tune with these wrinkles and cracks and white hair all at once . I have spent more time with them than anybody else. Time has traced all my life in these . Why would I erase that ? Why would i erase …me? For the last five years I planned for my 50th birthday “photoshoot’ Where I would look so good with lights and professional photography so I would hear the praise of not looking my age. But for what? It’s me and I am 50. So here is a simple selfie. No filter no photoshoot no stupid ego trip. Today I am 50. I am alive , I am here and I am very grateful.
I did my part and God did the rest 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🔥🔥🔥. A step closer to becoming a pediatrician. A dept of gratitude to all my mentors and wonderful people I encountered on this journey.
I had this as my wall paper since the beginning of the match cycle in faith. Today, I have received my good news.
Congratulations Abidemi, the Lord makes everything perfect in His time.