Her experience as a civic leader has solidified her passion for serving humanity, especially in capacity building for youths and people living with disabilities.
She says she felt torn apart and almost gave up when one fateful day, a motor accident would change her life. “Eighteen.
The world was mine.
Eighteen, career, college, endless opportunities, big dreams – everything was within reach until it wasn’t.
On one fateful day, or was it a cursed day?
I don’t know, I can never decide which one it is, but that day my life turned upside down, just like the car that overturned on itself, taking all my dreams away with it” She added that the accident made her question her purpose or her reason for existence and felt like she had become a shell of herself, shattered as she struggled to adapt to her new reality. “Overnight, my life was irrevocably altered.
That day, I left home full of energy and life, and two months later, I came back a shell of myself, confined to a wheelchair, lost and broken.
There were so many unanswered questions about my identity.
What am I supposed to do now?
Where do I go from here?
What is my purpose in life?
I was utterly lost and adrift.
And the cruelest irony is that life kept moving on, completely oblivious to my shattered self and existence.
So, I had to adapt and learn to navigate a new reality, leaving my old life behind as just a whisper of a memory” It was this new reality, of having to adapt to being confined in a wheelchair, that she went into self-seclusion for two years, becoming a prisoner of herself, until a friend awakened her to take charge of her destiny. “And then I went into self-seclusion for two years, closing in on myself, becoming a prisoner of my despair until a friend’s brutal honesty forced me back into the world again. “Snap out of it,” he said. “Who’s gonna save you but yourself? ” Gabriellah says this brutal awakening moment felt like a big slap. “It was harsh, but it was necessary.
I stepped back into the world.
I faced my fears.
I faced the terrifying spotlight of public life.
It was a daunting ordeal, and it still is, but I persevered. 🔗 Read Full Article
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