If you knew my story, you would think that I would have given up on finding who we call \u2018the one\u2019. But as a devoted Christian, I knew that God cherished me so much, that he would give me \u2018mine\u2019 and not someone else\u2019s.<\/p>\n
I had lived my life as a calm and upstanding man, a brother to many and a friend to all. I had worked hard, and I felt it was time to settle down. We were friends in church and the saying \u2018marry your best friend\u2019 was my leading force. We attended swimming lessons together, I knew her family and she knew mine. To me, it was perfect and maybe that\u2019s why it didn\u2019t work because I thought only about myself.\u00a0 On her birthday, I attempted to get out of the friendzone and that was the beginning of the end of our divine friendship. It hurt like hearing there\u2019s no jollof at a party, but I muscled through. It was a learning curve.<\/p>\n
My second attempt at love felt like the last one, but as some of my colleagues already know, it was not. I was so sure, I thought I was, and it wasn\u2019t. After not so many years together, neither of us felt the connection was right so we waited on the Lord and prayed for signs, but our signals were clearly lost for each other. I wasn\u2019t her one and neither was she mine and it was okay, hard, but okay.<\/p>\n
Two years later when I least expected it, luck struck. Surprisingly I was confident, and I thought to myself, maybe the third time is the charm. I met the one I was sure to cherish but my height and other contenders blocked her thought process. I hoped that she would see me as her one but as I learned from early heartbreak, it\u2019s not all about me. If there\u2019s one thing I did not need to learn before becoming an HH Person, it is that consistency is key. So I was consistent in my friendship, I applied pressure but the roadblocks that stood before me posed a greater threat to my heart\u2019s desire so I disconnected. I had made my case and left her to decide, heartbroken once again, I had to make the hard choice to let go and let God.<\/p>\n
In those two silent years of waiting, I allowed myself to heal and grow. I had faith. It was obvious, as I went from mountain to mountain, praying that mine will not pass me by. Make of it what you will, but a man in love is no fool. After those two silent years, the one I was sure to cherish found a signal and reconnected to my call. \u201cI\u2019m ready to walk down the aisle with you,\u201d she said. I did not need anything more. It\u2019s been six years since we reconnected. It\u2019s been six years since we said: \u201cI do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you knew my story, you would think that I would have given up on finding who we call \u2018the one\u2019. But as a devoted Christian, I knew that God cherished me so much, that he would give me \u2018mine\u2019 and not someone else\u2019s. I had lived my life as a calm and upstanding man, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6578,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions\/6578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}