I have gone 3 days without any discernible income finding its way into my hand or bank account, and it has felt like a year since I last received any income. As the things that I need to purchase money for continue to add up by the day, I started wondering how people with no means of generating survive given the state of inflation and cost of living these days.
I have never had a day go by when I haven't received some amount of money into my bank account in one form or another, but for the last few days, no money has come into my bank account, and I have no money as I sit here writing this.
It has never been this hard for me to the extent that there is nowhere I can quickly push a button for an instant cash injection. Even the crypto bear market has made the whole situation worse. I really feel sorry for myself to be in this kind of situation, to find that I am not even capable of doing the things I needed and the type of foods my wife would need to eat in order to recover as soon as possible from the disease she has had for the last week.
That is exactly why I have lost money. I have been trying to treat her of an acute fever for over 2 weeks now and have spent so much on medication and other health services. She has improved a little today except that she cannot move around yet. I believe is due to missing adequate quantities of some of the required food that is healthy for a sick person to recover quickly.
I began thinking I have done something wrong in investing heavenly in crypto, especially altcoins. I have invested good money in some altcoins at the beginning of this year with hopes of earning profits, but now those coins are below my purchase prices, and it will leave me completely lost if I sell them.
If I hadn't invested that money in altcoins that I did, there are other investments I could have made with the money more profitably and more sustainably which will keep giving me a constant flow of money that can help at a time like this, but now I cannot use it.
Looking at where things are today, I believe that I have hustled for nothing all these years of struggling through countless sleepless nights. If at such a moment I cannot find anything to fall back on, it implies that I have done terrible things in handling all the earnings from my hustling. And I wonder how much more it would cost for a person who has no source of income to survive.
The only income source that has not yet reached the bottom yet is Hive. But my wife's health being so bad, I am not able to focus and engage like I was doing to receive some upvotes. And to top it all, there has been some off and on with my internet network connection the last few days even if I have to fight to engage.
Being penniless is not funny. But the worry is not only for yourself. With nothing coming into the wallet, how would the family fare? Family is affected too, they cannot buy the things that they need for the upkeep of the family.
I hope some kind of favor or some miracle would be fermenting at this moment to help me out of this predicament.
People seem to be fine with being broke. But For how long can a person stay broke and not escape from such a condition? I am concerned about the future of people living without a means of income at present because by now, the inflation rate has doubled in my country and staple foods are no longer something the poor can live on.
Wishing the very best to all those individuals out there who are also working hard with the same fate as mine.
I do believe the sun will shine again soon!