Real gentlehawk is someone who comes across as a goal-getter. She is someone who knows what she wants and is not afraid to reach out for her heart’s desires.
She approached me, telling me she would like me to come on board her editorial team and she went further to tell me beautiful adjectives on my capabilities based on her interactions with me and referrals from people. I blushed and said an effusive thank-you!
Part of the mandate given to me was ‘a no-holds-barred’ articles. She said she wanted articles that would be as real as can be. She said she wanted people to have insights to ‘our’ person. She wanted people to identify with us like they have known us, she wanted us to be a team of writers who people could trust, and who would say the truth regardless of whose ox would be gored. The mandate sounded scary and challenging but I was and I am thrilled at this ‘newest’ journey of my life.
I welcome you to this journey of discovery and rediscovery of who I am, who you can be, who I was, who you used to be, who I aspire to be, your aspirations, who I can be and who you can be. This journey would most certainly be boring without you. Please oblige me as we undertake this journey together. Hand in hand we would walk together, talk together, discover our potentials both known and unknown. We would be friends.
I pondered on what would be my first piece. I searched the core of my being for a title that would make front page header. I wanted to impress you but again realgentlehawk’s words re-echoed in my ears ’be real’. It was at that moment this title came to mind ‘The break of a new dawn’.
I had to search the net for a word that best described ‘The break of a new dawn’. I saw so many meanings and had a hard time settling for one definition.
After a long search, I settled for these:
1. The time of day when light first appears as the sun rises.
Thesaurus: morning, sunrise, daybreak, daylight, sun-up (US), aurora;
Antonym: dusk, sundown, sunset.
2. The beginning of (a new period of time, etc).
Thesaurus: beginning, outset, onset, origin, birth, genesis, inception, start, rise, advent, emergence, dawning.
Ref:http://www.writersevents.com/Words_Starting_with_A/at_a_tangent_at_the_most/at_the_break_of_dawn_definition.html
I would not speak for realgentlehawk but for me, being asked to write on realgentlehawk’s space is a new period of time for me. I have been writing since I was 10 years old. I wrote when I was happy, I wrote when I was sad. Writing while growing up meant so much to me.
I entered secondary school joined the school’s press club where I wrote most of the editorial pieces. I continued this writing trade of mine to university where I wrote for a couple of media houses on campus.
Then I started working. Writing, took the back seat of my life. I barely wrote but when I did, I wrote out of the anguish of my heart particularly when one of my bosses had got me pissed. I would ‘diss’ them using my pen. ‘The pen was mightier than the sword’.
At some point, life seemed like a drab. Using other talents of mine like singing, I tried to keep myself busy and happy. There was still an emptiness I felt…
I am glad to be onboard this new voyage. Would all of my emptiness end? ‘I cannot categorically say’ *smiles*. However, I plan to utilize this platform given to me to expend myself to you. I want to dare people to be the best that God have them be. You, yes you, were born for a purpose.
While I am not the best me yet, I ‘am certain that you’d find me inspiring and fun to be with. It’s a new dawn for me. Welcome to my world…
