It's Been "Not Too Bad"...

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When we got to the month of April, we were leaving the first quarter of the year behind. And I’ve got to say, 2025 has been one of the most topsy-turvy years so far. I had believed that after graduating from school I would be able to just chill while I wait for my call-up letter from NYSC. I didn’t want much, I simply wanted to relax and wait for the government to call me.

However, it’s been a crazy year. In January, I realized that I couldn’t just wait and wait without doing anything. It wouldn’t make any sense. Because at this point, it would be a waste of the number of months that I would be at home if I didn’t even make an attempt to become better or make an investment in myself.

And the only viable option I could think of at the time was to upskill. Thankfully, I have more time on my hands now that I don’t have to report to school every single day. That opened me up for learning a skill. Something that I’ve been taking really seriously. However, it didn’t come without it’s challenges.

Just when I was about to start my first lesson, early in the month of February, my laptop suddenly started acting up. It just wasn’t seeing the internet anymore. No matter how much I rebooted and reset it, the laptop just couldn’t connect to the internet anymore. And for someone that relied heavily on the internet to get my job done, I was in a lot of trouble.

I considered fixing it, but I knew that it was only going to lead to yet another trouble. Remember that I swapped the laptop sometime last year when the previous one I was using at the time crashed. I had done it out of desperation, and now, I had found myself in yet another desperate situation. I couldn’t avoid it any longer, I had to get a new one.

But the prices I was seeing were too steep, and seeing how much of an emergency it was, I couldn’t afford to spend such an amount. And thus, I was forced to take a loan. I didn’t just take a loan, I was even forced to sell some of my tokens to reduce the amount of money that I had to pay back. And that was very helpful. I went to Ikeja and I got the laptop. It was a great sale because since then, I’ve been flexing it and using it to work. My work has been going so great.

Last month, something similar happened as well when my generator broke down totally, and to fix it I needed to spend over N60k. I wasn’t ready for such an exorbitant amount of money, so I opted to get another one. That required yet another loan.

The good thing about all these is that I have a good payment plan for them, and within a month or two, I’d be done paying it all off. I was once scared of loans, but now, I’ve found them to be quite helpful. As long as you’re willing to pay back and you have the means to do so, loans are not something that should be scary. If for any reason, I have a project coming up that I can’t afford, I won’t be scared of taking on a loan because I know that I would definitely be able to pay it.

Thanks to the new laptop, I started the course and so far, I’ve been making good progress. Now, I’ve not been going as fast as I know I can go, my pace has been a bit slow, but I know that I’m learning what I have to. And my goal for this quarter is to be done with the course and master it on a really efficient level. It’s something that I’m sure I’d be able to achieve.

So far, despite all the challenges that this year brought our way, I can’t say that it’s been bad or anything. Because I’ve been learning and I’ve been getting better. It’s only a matter of time before I get everything else that I’m after. I’m sure that I can make that work.

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_{Thank you for reading. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below, I would love to know what you’re thinking. Till we meet in the next post.}

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_{This post is inspired by the first topic of this week which is The First Quarter. Feel free to try it out.}

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_{N.B: All images used in this post are mine. The thumbnail was designed using Canva.}

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