(RE-EMERGE 2023) WHEN EXISTENCE BECOMES PAIN
RE-EMERGE 2023 When Existence Becomes Pain The first week of 2023 has seen a series of fluctuations in thoughts, emotions, and degree of clarity. etc. As one of my three resolutions, I made it a commitment to capture my experience in fully fleshed-out words and share it with my world. I couldn’t settle on a topic to write for the last seven days as my thought pattern kept on changing as I got to the second paragraph, but finally waking up in the middle of the night today it dawned on me what I must write first. 2023 for me and many others in my space is a critical year as it marks the “tentative end” of a 5-year journey turned 7 years others wise called the pursuit of a bachelor's degree in a Federal University in Nigeria. Tentative end because even with the reality of having just a semester left, the possibility of the semester not ending this year is still > 50% based on previous trends. The last 6 years for me as been more than just pursuing a degree in chemical engineering i...