Growing up as a teenager, life was quite fair to me cause I always had everything I wanted on a platter of gold, I mean, my parents were doing so well financially so much that we were given whatever we wanted. We lived everyday of our lives buying whatever we wanted and eating whatever we wanted, my parents didn't save at all for the future neither did they invest in any form of business whatsoever, every income they had were all been spent on household expenses and unimportant things. My parents were both government workers and they solely depended on the income from the government.
All sorts of problem started arising when the Governments started delaying the workers salary and even sometimes, salaries won't be paid at all for months, finances at home became struggles ranging paying of school fees, buying foodstuffs, family projects and some other household expenses, living life then for someone like me who had a pleasant life right from the start of her life became so difficult and unbearable. We had to start managing whatever resources we had, a number of times, we won't have anything to eat but I learnt to endure everything at that time, it went on and on like that for a few years, I can say I spent basically all my senior secondary school year struggling and managing life. My family didn't even have so much property in our name to call our own, the only property we had then and we could boast of is our house, I mean the house we lived right then. Things started getting back to normal after about 2 to 3 years, salary payment already got back to normal about a year earlier though but we used almost an extra year to pay back all the debts we owed.
Not long after all those drama, I lost my dad to a very slight sudden illness, it was just too sudden that I couldn't wrap my hands around it, I became completely shattered, it looked as though I lost my reason to live, life became meaningless of a sudden. A lot of thoughts filled my heart, I brooded on how I will be able to continue my life without any sort of financial help even if my mum was also working, I knew it wouldn't be enough to cater for all our needs so I had no option but to look for any sort of job in other to help me and my family, in the course of searching for jobs, I found purpose and I learnt to become independent.
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Always know that;
"There will always be battles a time in one's life but what it does is to help reshape your life and give it purpose and direction".
I will like to conclude by quoting one of my mum's favorite quotes.
"Always learn from your challenges and never let it get the best of you"
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