17/04/2026
PS: This may be a long read
Yesterday, this line on a Femi Adekoya’s WhatsApp status stopped me mid scroll:
“A moving man will surely meet his luck, the road always favours the traveller.”
I paused because I’ve lived it.
This is for everyone doing the work but still unsure where it’s leading. For those with a gift they believe in quietly but can’t yet explain confidently. For everyone who keeps moving, not because the path is clear, but because standing still feels worse.
Keep going. Here’s why.
For years, I designed with no clear destination. No guarantees. Just a quiet passion I couldn’t shake. While others built conventional careers, I kept sketching, designing, iterating, with nothing but instinct telling me it mattered.
Eventually, I made a simple but powerful decision: I refused to be idle. I accepted a graduate trainee role at one of Nigeria’s biggest banks, not because it was my dream, but because I needed to stay in motion trust that the road would do the rest.
That decision came with its own tests.
I relocated to a city I had genuinely sworn I would never live in. I sat through a full training school and even there, even in that season, I was still designing. Sometimes right there in class. Quietly.
When posting letters came, I was sent somewhere most people hoped to avoid. But I made a quiet promise to myself: I’m going in fully, wherever this is.
Day one on the job, suited and committed, an executive saw me and remembered my design background on my CV and in one short conversation, everything changed. In five minutes, I was moved to Corporate Communications. Started with a few designs. And from that single day, an entire career found its footing.
I didn’t get there because I had a perfect plan. I got there because I refused to stand still.
That single decision to keep moving, to show up, to keep creating even when no one was watching, is what made those five minutes possible.
Purpose doesn’t always announce itself with a clear roadmap. It reveals itself to those who stay on the road.
So keep building. Keep showing up. Keep moving.
The road always favours the traveller.
