We’re Anchor-ing

It was exactly 1:31 a.m. and I was yet to catch any night’s sleep, pretty much because I slept in the afternoon of the previous day, we all did.

Stella and I lived together in her aunt’s house, along with two of her other friends, Freky and Favour, and recently, because I’m making it a habit to write daily, I tend to wake up as early as 3 a.m. On two nights, Stella had woken up to ease herself and met me writing, but instead of going back to bed right after she had relieved her bladder, she engaged me in a conversation.

No, I don’t consider it a bother if anything, I encourage it. I like a good conversation and recently with how busy my peers have become in trying to sort out and fix their lives, it’s been difficult to get anyone to actually hold a reasonable conversation for more than three minutes, so yeah, I’d pause my writing to talk with Stella.

However, with the look of things, being awake so late in the night and so early in the morning, I had doubt I’d wake up to write as usual, so I decided to write just before I slept.

I was now faced with another problem…what to write about.

It’s been easy crafting out my previous posts because they were things happening to me or around Nigeria, but for the past two days I’ve not had so much happen in my life, and I wasn’t so attentive on Twitter yesterday to be aware of any recent update in Nigeria…so I had nothing to write about, it so I thought.

I decided to read some articles on Medium for inspiration of any sort, because “you can’t produce if you can’t consume” (wish I could remember where I saw that).

Just when I picked the article to read, an article titled ‘Ghostwriters Handbook’ by Hazel Paradise, Stella made a suggestion that could make a big impact in our lives.

Oh, just in case you’re interested in Hazel’s article, you can read it up here https://medium.com/@hazelparadise/ghostwriting-handbook-for-writers-99d59c5d75d0

“We could start a podcast” Stella suggested.

Of course, I immediately laughed it off as a joke, but a few seconds later, I imagined the possibilities of making her suggestion a reality.

I mean, I already have a podcast account with Anchor, we already wake up at 4 a.m. when everywhere is serene so our voices can’t be interrupted by loud sounds, and we almost always have something to talk about, and even if we don’t, Twitter always offers good topic options.

“This is how dreams are born” I thought to myself.

Now not only did Stella come up with an idea that if we put in the work could impact our lives positively, she also gave me an idea on what to write for today and a reason to wake up by 4 a.m. and get our first podcast out there.

Do you want to hear what our first topic would be about? Want to get a sneak peek into our early morning discussions?

Here’s a link that might help https://anchor.fm/catherine-patrick

Ps, contents there are on health and fitness, but I’ll be revamping as soon as possible.

Can’t wait to have you listening!