Lone Adventure Day 1

It's day 308 of documenting 2025.

57 days to 2026!

It's my second night in the hostel.

Frankly, the light issue is not a smiling situation.

There's no light in the rooms and I wasn't able to charge my power bank properly when I went out. 

The room where students usually charge their devices is outside my hostel room.

I have to go downstairs to the recreation room where there are makeshift charging ports, which are usually crowded with phones.

I actually don't know what powers the sockets, but it seems like a solar panel or some kind of generator.

Who cares?

What matters is that I'm able to charge my device.

By God's grace, my power bank which died hours ago, is charging now.

The plan is to stay till my power bank is full, because I can't really leave it and go to my room.

I don't know anyone here.

Thing is, my first lecture is tomorrow morning...and I've already set what I'm going to wear.

And I can't be going around, looking for where to charge my power bank.

So, it's better I stay here for now.

No risk, no reward 😌

This might be an irrational decision, because I will need my rest...so I won't feel so tired tomorrow.

But I still don't have a trusted place where I can power up my device yet. I might spend the night here.

Let's see how it goes...

Well, my day was also another adventure.....and before I tell you how it went, let's look at highlights for today.

365 Days With Self-discipline

📌 On Not Having Money

“If only I had more money” is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment — now and not later."

Quote by Tim Ferriss

It’s easy to say that you don’t have money and consider it the ultimate excuse as to why you aren’t working on your goals.

I don’t have money, so I won’t start exercising because I can’t afford fitness equipment.

I don’t have money, so I won’t start saving money because how can I save money if I don’t have it?

I don’t have money, so I won’t start eating more healthily because healthy food is too expensive.

Is it really true that nobody has ever become fit without having loads of

money? The marketing techniques of the fitness industry lead you to think that expensive gear is needed to get fit, but many do without it (often as their own choice), and are more than fine.

Are you really unable to save even one dollar a day, just to establish a new positive habit? 

Are you saying that your every single purchase is necessary and can’t be reduced even by a small fraction?

Is healthy food really more expensive than junk food? 

Ask any person taking hypertension or diabetes medication — caused by their own bad dietary choices — whether they think that eating junk food was a more economical choice. 

You don’t need to eat all organic or shop in expensive stores to eat healthily.

Using money as an excuse is taking the easy way out, defaulting to mental laziness rather than seeking a solution. 

True, it helps you avoid some effort and hard thinking today, but costs you future improvements in your life and leads to a victim mentality.

In my opinion, the key takeaway from today's note it this:

More often than not, the problem is not usually a lack of money....it's a lack of resourcefulness.

That's what I think 😌

Alright, that's for today's note....

How my day went?

Hmm....a roller coaster of emotions.

Okay, let me slow down and start from the beginning.

I woke up and prayed first.

Then I went downstairs to fetch water and came back up to take my bath.

Then I went out.

I was supposed to meet with my brother, but he had lectures...so I was on my own for the day.

Ate a full breakfast, and that's the only meal I had today.

Twas filling tho...drank water for the rest of today and was okay.

I just had biscuits this evening, because I won't eat anything tomorrow morning till after lectures.

I decided to locate the lecture hall where we would be having a class tomorrow.

Turns out, it's located close to the market I went to with my dad yesterday.

I asked around and was directed to another place.

After taking transport to the place I was directed to...I messaged a person known as the course rep and he directed me back to the place where I initially came to.

For some 20 minutes, I panicked.

I thought my phone wasn't turning on again, when it was just the brightness that was too low for me to see anything.

I didn't let it show, as I continued to locate the place.

Luckily, I found the place and asked a student who was sitting outside.

She then confirmed that it was the lecture hall for students in my faculty.

I was like, "finally!"

Asides the fact that I wasted money because of a wrong direction, I was able to find my way around.

I also got a few things that I needed, and I went back to my hostel.

On getting to my room, it was locked...so I stayed outside and waited till one of my roommates came back to unlock the door.

For the rest of the evening, I trekked to my brother's hostel to pay for a certain bedspread...and then had to trek back to drop it off, before trekking again to where I had dropped off my power bank since morning, thinking it would have charged to a reasonable extent.

I was happy when I saw that it had two bars, but when I wanted to use it to charge, it reduced to one.

That's why I said initially that I don't have any trusted place to charge my device.

It's all good tho....where there's a will, there's a way.

I think that would be all for today's post.

I'm still here, charging my power bank...which has been blinking the first bar for over two hours now.

It is well 😪

Thanks for reading 🎀

I'm still going to recount all my hostel adventures till the end of this year, so don't miss it.

You can always check out the main site, Documenting 2025.

See you in the next post 💜