Childhood Lesson That Still Guides Me.

When people say we carry lessons from childhood into adulthood, it iss the absolute truth, see sometimes you don’t even realize it until life decides to test you, and suddenly you hear your parents voices in your head, loud, clear, and annoyingly accurate, I honestly learnt a good lot from my parents while growing up, but if there is one lesson that really stuck to my skin like glue, it is the value of hard work.

My parents didn’t sit me down for some kind of formal lecture about it, no, they didn’t open a motivational book and start quoting chapters to me, Nah.... that didn't happen, they lived it, every single day, and watching them, knowingly or unknowingly, shaped something inside me, it taught me that nothing moves if you don’t move, problems won’t magically disappear because you are tired, bills won’t melt simply because you are stressed, life listens more to effort than to excuses.

Growing up, I saw firsthand that you cannot just sit down and expect challenges to solve themselves, you have to get up, think, push, try, fail, try again, and keep going until something eventually gives way, that was my parent's life, and that became my mindset, the kind of hard work they did wasn’t glamorous, there were no entrepreneur life instagram captions, No soft life quotes, It was real, raw, gritty hard work, the kind that leaves you tired but still standing because you know people are depending on you.

And funny enough, when you are young, you sometimes think they are too strict or too serious, you don’t fully understand why they are always pushing you to do something with your hands, be responsible, or never wait for someone to rescue you, but when you grow up and life slaps you with real responsibilities, everything just starts to make sense.

There are moments now when I feel overwhelmed, and without even thinking, I catch myself repeating the same lessons they lived by, I have realized that hard work really does pay, even though the payoff is not always immediate, sometimes the reward is just the peace of knowing you didn’t give up, sometimes it is the growth you gain from pushing through things you didn’t think you could survive, snd sometimes, it is the long term results that show up quietly, years later, and remind you that every little effort counted.

I also learnt that complaining does not change anything at all, my parents were the type of people that believed in action over any kind of noise, you can talk from morning till night, but if you don’t stand up and do the work, nothing will move it spot, so that mentality stuck with me so much that I genuinely struggle to sit still when there is a solution I can actually chase, I have become the kind of person that would rather try and fail than stay in one spot waiting for any miracles, even though I believe in miracles.

So yes, out of all the things I learnt from them,it is hard work is the one that shaped me the most, It taught me whag resilience meant, It taught me responsibility, It taught me that life respects effort, and honestly, looking at how far I have come and how far I still want to go, I am grateful for that lesson every single day.

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