HIVENAIJA WEEKLY PROMPT #07: My Financial Reality

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Many of us who later faced hardship in life, especially at our younger age would have sworn with everything we had back then that we would never get to that stage, but unfortunately, like they always say, life will always throw at us what we least expected and when we least expected it.

I am one of the persons who life has taught so much in a short period, I am one of the people who had to learn about life, how to live, how to survive, how to keep surviving, the hard way and I bet, I learned it in a short period and from the people I least expected it from but thank God, I never look like what I went through or go through.

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2️⃣ɴᴏ ᴏɴᴇ ʟɪᴋᴇs ғɪɴᴀɴᴄɪᴀʟ ɪɴsᴛᴀʙɪʟɪᴛʏ. sʜᴀʀᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴜs ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ ᴀᴛ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ʏᴏᴜ sᴀɪᴅ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀsᴇʟғ, "ɪ'ʟʟ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ʙᴇ ʙʀᴏᴋᴇ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ ɪɴ ᴍʏ ʟɪғᴇ," ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴄɪʀᴄᴜᴍsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇs sᴘᴜʀʀᴇᴅ sᴜᴄʜ ᴀ ᴅᴇᴄʟᴀʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴋɪɴɢ ᴛᴏᴡᴀʀᴅs ᴍᴀᴋɪɴɢ ɪᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʀᴇᴀʟɪᴛʏ

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So, one of these I just finished paying my house rent and didn't have a lot of money for food. Myself and my brother were so hungry that we were beginning to count the ceilings of our room over and over again and I am sure one among the two of us was beginning to see Jesus himself 😂😂. We tried to sleep that night hoping for a better option the following day.

But I didn't know who to ask for help as I just packed into that area a year ago and didn't know people, my work did not permit me to always be around or chit-chat with people both in my compound and the neighbours but I tried to greet people I come across in my path.

So, I decided that there was a young lady who sells foodstuffs just at the entrance of our street, and since I usually get things from her, that morning I was going to meet her and ask her to give me a few foodstuffs on credit, I was going to pay her at the end of the month.

I knew I could survive the hunger but my younger brother who was a student and would be going to school was my problem. I went to her, begged her and she accepted but not without saying some of the words that weren't pleasant to hear, but as na on credit I come buy something, I had to let her words slide.

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I particularly told this lady end of the month, and she agreed to it and gave me the foodstuffs but unfortunately while returning from work after three days, I met this lady on the road and as normal, greeted her but she called me.

So, I had to go meet her, and when I got there, she started asking me for her money, but I told her I didn't have it and tried to explain to her that I actually told her the end of the month.

This lady started screaming and shouting that how was she going to go to the market to buy things if I owed her till the end of the month, I felt like the ground opening up and swallowing me because she had other customers there who started looking at me like I did something bad.

Even if I decided to pay her, I didn't have enough money at the moment to pay her and she wouldn't hear me out. I started begging her to please give me till the next day so I can look for a way to get her money but she wasn't even giving me a chance.

Not for the intervention of a young man who came to buy something at that moment and heard the whole brawl, he asked how much I was owing which was a thousand five hundred naira, and he paid the money and asked her to leave me alone.

He gave me some naira notes and asked me to go, I couldn't thank him enough but according to him he usually admires me because I always greeted people and especially him whenever I see him even though I don't know him. I thanked him and left for the house

From that day, I did not only promise not to step foot in that lady's shop but I promised to add up business to my source of livelihood. Although it has been difficult, juggling the two, especially with the economy but I just have to keep pushing.

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This is my entry to the HIVENAIJA WEEKLY PROMPT #07 here is a link