What a few years I have in life to achieve all these!

Life is too short; I am afraid I won't be able to achieve it all. It was not too long ago that I was born. I know I have lived and planned my life through the nine months I was in the womb. Fast forward, I have completed junior high on the 28th of February, 2008, with the ambition of becoming a lawyer. Fast forward to the year 2012, May 15; I have completed St. Mary’s Boys’ Senior High School, having read Business.

In line with my desire to become a Catholic priest, the Sekondi-Takoradi Catholic diocese accepted me. I spent almost 9 years in the formation house preparing to become a Catholic priest until that fateful Thursday night I told one colleague in front of my home parish’s church that I was going to resign.

Although the reason for my resignation remained confidential, after the events of 7th August 2020, I swiftly considered my next course of action. I at once applied to do graduate studies at the University of Cape Coast after I had smoothed the grounds with my family members. In the year 2022, on 7th January, I had started graduate studies. By the end of January 2024, I had submitted my thesis for examination. Having successfully defended my thesis on the 13th of August 2024, my department gave me the opportunity to apply for the PhD. even though I am currently doing my PhD with the department, my love for schooling and achieving my wild ambitions keeps pushing me.

I will want to become a lawyer and a lecturer if the future grants me life. Given my current age and time, not knowing the future but wanting a kind of future, I am pushed to follow my ambitions with the limited time I have to make the best out of life. Definitely, time is not on my side, but my dream of becoming a lawyer must see daylight, even if it happens before death comes or death comes before it is achieved; I have had a feel of it.

I am definitely going to apply to do this law in the next academic year. Even though time is passing quickly, I will remain focused and determined to pursue my dreams. I only hope in all this to have an extra hour before I pass on to enable me to achieve my dream. And in the event that I am unable to achieve them with the coming of death, I hope death should meet me while on the last stage of my dream.

While I'm talking about this, a coursemate at the PhD level asked me how I'm able to do this since they seem to play according to some order. Yes, I have a plan for myself, which I drew after high school. First, hold a degree, be a priest, do my MPhil, read law, and later do a PhD. While there have been some dreams not met, becoming a priest, I have met the dream of holding an MPhil degree, but instead of the law before the PhD, I’m currently pursuing my PhD, and I am planning to enrol in LLB at the university next academic year ( that’s, the 2025/2026 academic year).

Yes, reforms in the plan are allowed, and not being able to achieve a particular dream is possible, but it is not allowed to sit idle, showing some lost hope when you could start life or continue life with new energy. But in all these, the key variable is time. While life is short, and given the shortness of the life I have, I will want to do everything possible to achieve my life dreams. Death may meet me along the way of achieving my dream, but given the life that I have, I will go out there confident to achieve the last stage of my dream in life.

Life is indeed too short, even though I have a lot still on my plan to achieve. But coming from a very humble beginning, I have the course to break all odds to be successful if I want to qualify to become an ancestor of my family and get my family’s name heard.My name is Emmanuel Graham Nyameke.