Enough To Chill With The Big Boys

Of Declarations

My friends and I went on a date after a whole lifetime of not seeing each other 😂

I love music, especially when it’s West African. (My closest friends and I often joke about me being a displaced West African- I am Kenyan). I also enjoy South African music and I can comfortably admit that I am a sucker for Amapiano (a South African genre of music). So you can imagine my excitement whenever Nigeria and South Africa come together to create music.

Before the saints come at me, I know that Amapiano is generally linked with secular overtones, but I enjoy the beats and do my best to rock with music that has lyrics I can translate directly or through a Nigerian/South African friend, just to make sure I am not jamming to something I do not believe in.

(This may change with time and I am open to change, however I am led.)

They are future Big Boys, guys!

Anyway, I listened to an Amapiano remix of an Opera single, ‘Ameno’. It has West and South Africa as two major influences behind its production. One of the lines within this remix is (writing it with the attitude you say it with), “You won’to chiii wid di big boys?” (“You want to chill with the big boys?”).

It sounds more like a dare than a question if you ask me. Like, do you really think you have what it takes to hang with the movers and shakers?

At first, I danced to the track mindlessly, but deep ol’ me had to respond to that “challenge”. Incidentally, I went to a business meeting with someone I personally consider a ‘big boy’.

After that meeting, I drove back home like a mad woman.

That was not my first business meeting in 2021, but it sure sparked me up in a way I had not expected. I suddenly saw big open doors and shattered glass ceilings.

“Yes, I want to chill with the big boys. I CAN chill with the big boys.”

I don’ care, I go chop life am

I want to dance in Rio at midnight with my close circle of friends (because we will all win) and then fly off to Paris early the next morning just to visit my favorite baker.

I want to wake up at 4 AM and do my Quiet Time with my first husband (God) and then smash my To Do list boldly. Assertively.

I want the ‘soft-life’, yes, a life of joy and abundance.

There is nothing wrong with being ambitious and godly and feminine.

I can make millions of dollars and still have millions more to give and take care of those who have less.

I can still love God and enjoy the wealth He has given me.

I desire a lifestyle I can comfortably afford by honest methods, even if others think of it as flashy. So long as God approves of it, I will live it by all means.

I want to do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

I no longer subscribe to limiting beliefs of what I seemingly do not deserve, seemingly cannot do or seemingly cannot become. I am not limited, therefore I shall not act like I am.

I shall disappoint every voice from hell that speaks ill of me because I have been given authority to (Isaiah 54:17).

By God’s grace, I aspire to be the best version of a mother, wife, business-woman, Consultant Otorhinolaryngologist, sister, friend, Minister and Child of God. I am not limited. I can be all these and then some and I can do it.

I am not limited. I can be all these and then some and I can do it.

No matter who thinks what, God has the final say over me. Amen.

So, yes, I’m going to chill with the big boys.