How Depression Awakened Me – Rapper Eva Alordiah
Popular Rapper Elohor ‘Eva’ Alordiah has opened up on how depression led to her ‘self-discovery.’
The Abuja-born entertainer in a series of tweets on Tuesday recounted how she battled deep, dark depression for years forcing her to give up on one of her biggest dreams.
However, five years after, Eva said the situation has changed for while she battled with depression she eventually found peace in rediscovering herself.
She tweeted:
“5 years ago I gave up my dream of becoming the greatest female rapper in Africa. I was suffering a deep, dark depression. Today I own a Tech Start-up, I have new life & I’m Recording again! Here’s what I have learned about giving up your dreams, Depression & Finding yourself
“You are an Artist, You are NOT your Art. Over the years I had become identified with what I did – Eva The Rapper – I didn’t know myself beyond that.
“It has taken years of persistent introspection, meditation & patience to know myself and stand apart from my work.
“I now understand the Depression as a Spiritual experience – a shedding of old layers, the stripping away of illusion, a coming face to face with all that isn’t so I can see what IS I am not my thoughts, I am not my Body. I am not my accomplishments. I AM.
“The Depression was the pathway to my Awakening. It forced me to give up who I thought I was, to block off everyone else and their dogmas, and to accept a state of nothingness. I found peace when I accepted myself as No thing, No one, No me.”
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