Belatedly overdue

It does not mean forgotten, left behind, unimportant, does not mean unwanted

For some reason you started school late, because you had to look after cows, plant the field and get water from the river before the animals get there first,  because no one believed that you really needed school, or simply because you are a girl after all.

You got to finish school late, because you dropped out so many times to take care off things at home, things that children should not be responsible for, including having to work to put food on the table. They made you stay at home anytime they needed someone there, to look after granny, to go with her on pension days and hospital checkups

Now that you managed to finish school, even though you had to be in class with children 10years younger than you.
Due to lack of experience and proper skill, or gender discrimination you could not get a good job early enough. Your age group has long been working, some even got married, bought cars and houses.
You are a perfect example of what not to do as a human being if you want to be successful.

I once had these sayings
" Better late than never"
" Good things comes to those who wait"
" Isina muva liyabukwa"
(The one who dances last, dances the best)

Romans 8
28 And we know that in all things God(Elohim) works for the good of those who love the him, who have been called according to his purpose.

You have ,finally made it against all odds.
You may be amongst the last to cross the finish line or get a job from your peers, family and friends.
Funny how a lot of them have nothing to show for all the years of their hard work.
Your peers married long before you, and you had to learn from the challenges they went through.
You may be the one getting retrenched all the time you get a good job, but you have this bounce back spirit that no one can understand and explain.

Ecclesiastes 9
11. I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.

When your finishing is strong, the humble and tough beginnings do not count anymore.

Isaiah 43
18 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
19. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
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