The First Step - Recap

It’s been a wonderful first week, I couldn’t ask for better. I want to thank you all that have been reading my blog and all the great people that helped make this happen. Special thanks to donors that have placed money into the donation fund and all the critiques that didn’t hesitate to drop comments.

These Sunday posts would be a great opportunity to give you all a ‘behind-the-scenes’ of the making of my write-ups. It does take a lot of personal effort and a lot of my allowance to provide you all with great content. Almost half the time people aren’t as cooperative as it makes you seem in the posts, but it’s safe to say I have a way with people.

Since I started the journey of this blog I have met many wonderful and amazing people, from labor workers to company CEOs and people from different backgrounds. It’s a priceless opportunity that I’m grateful for. I still have a lot to learn as you have must have discovered from many obvious mistakes I have made, but a child will only start walking when it is tired of falling.

I hope to expand as the days go by, reach beyond the apparent confines and add more depth of experience into what you read. I hope to be able to change Seeing Life in Nigeria to Seeing Life in Africa and the consequently to Seeing Life on Earth one day and I hope to be able to impact lives in sweeps as I move on and into to the next stage.

The Obscenities post was my very first time interviewing a person professionally, so I must confess that I was a bit nervous before meeting Mr. Bethel. I had to wear a mask of boldness before I could function, but if he had cared to notice he would have realized how my unsteady fingers had betrayed me. You have to learn the power of masking in this journalism. First impressions last and the mask you wear before you appear to someone will determine how the person will see you throughout their lives. I wore the mask of an inquisitive young man in the Taxi Life post and I appeared before the kids at the Orphanage as an elder brother.

I am thankful for your time and your patronage, I wish I could type out more for you all to see but I’ll be redundant in repeating what I have already said in previous posts. Once again, if you like a post remember to +1 it, like it, share it and follow Obarian.