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Hello everyone, it's another beautiful week of the engagement challenge contrast and for this, I will share my first participation here in this noble community alongside a beautiful topic titled ”Joyful times are here" Indeed everyone deserves to be happy and have a joyful moment in life, life it's self is not that easy but in one way or the other we find our self in some joyful time.

*** 💃`Is it important to be joyful? Why?`💃 *** https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmduU6J2CrJQm39HUbHnimFGPjeuTRXwRMNi4uiv9UTVLQ/IMG_20230828_171424_349.jpg

Ooh yes, it is very important to be joyful at all times, yes we all know life is hard but it is compulsory to be joyful. When we are happy things go well for us but when we are not things become worse in our life and that can lead to depression. Happiness is the key to life and one thing I come to realize in life is that, you dont have to wait for someone to make you happy because the only one that can make you happy to the fullest is you and yourself.

Being joyful always gives us hope that tomorrow will be better, it makes us more active in dealing with all the struggles in life, also its makes us forget our sorrows and move on. So it is very important to be joyful.

*** 💃`Share 3 events that made you joyful this year.`💃 *** The three things that make me joyful this year are:

`Being Alive`: For me to see the end of this year is not by my making but the grace of God, sometimes if I look back on how I started the journey of life I will just look up and thank my creator for taking care of me and always leading me to the right part, since the beginning of the year I have never fine myself in a situation where I was helpless because I believe God will always see me through and I'm forever grateful to him.

`Masters programs`: It has always been my wish to see that further my education after my B.SC and I have been working hard to raise some money that will make me attend the program and behold God has been faithful and currently, I have started my master's program in one of the universities in Nigeria, and I will be done with my first semester exams early next month. This alone makes me joyful and thankful to my creator for making it come to pass.

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` Award of excellence `: Early this year I was so lucky to be among the outstanding staff in my office where my performance for the first quarter was excellent and the organization gave us a reward and some cash to appreciate us. It was one of my joyful moments because I was not expecting it but I believed with God and my hard work I was recognized.

*** 💃`What are your joyful plans for the last month of the year?`💃 ***

For next month, by the grace of God, if I'm still among the living, my joyful plans are; `Going home`: ever since I came to Ilorin for service I have not gone home to see my people so by the end of the year I'm planning to go home and spend some quality and joyful moments with my family and doing that will make me full field because I seriously miss them a lot. And I would love to celebrate Christmas with my family by God's grace.

Another joyful plan for next month is to hang out with my friends and also have fun because all this while it has been working, work, and work. Someone has to take some rest to relax the body and always regain strength to continue the work for the next year.

*** 💃`Conclusion`💃 ***

In conclusion, being joyful is very necessary in life once you are not happy the world will not be a better place for you, so please even if no one makes you joyful try your best to make it happen because it gets why😁 happiness if free and joy fulness is very very important.

_I invite @jasminemary @vickyson and @sahmie to come and take part in this contest_ _Stay safe and always be joyful dear friends🤗_