Cost of Living Check: Surviving or Thriving?

Most days I sit down and think about those times when I didn’t have anything to worry about. No need worrying about making money , paying bills and providing for others. Those times, I didn’t even believe it when my parents told me they couldn’t get me something because they didn’t have money. Maybe I was just a kid or probably a spoilt one at that time. But guess what? None of that matters now.

Today, I’m a big woman who doesn’t even know what she’s doing with her life. As if anyone’s knows what they’re doing with their life. We’re all trying our best on the daily basis and that’s enough cos once there’s life, there’s hope. I always wished to grow up fast but no one told me adulthood wasn’t child’s play. All of a sudden I’m an adult, a big sister and even an auntie. Ha!

Speaking of the cost of living as an adult, I used to stay with my family about 6 years ago and then I had to move away. If you’re away from home you can attest to the fact that being at home is way different from being away. In as much as your family might get on your nerves sometimes, you get to eat free food at home, sleep in AC, bath with free soap and water and many more. And if you’re lucky you even get some extra money again from sources in the house.😂 But once you’re away from home, whether you eat or not is your own wahala. If you like don’t bath or find money to pay your electricity bill and what have you.

Growing up in the south, I knew things were expensive because I grew up in the country’s capital. But then I had to move up north and I somehow had the perception that things will be way cheaper in the north but it was the opposite. For rent, I can say it’s cheaper than it is down south even though I haven’t really rented in the south before because we have our own house. But you see foodstuff, petty transportation and those small small stuff you don’t take to be a big deal. They will drain your money in a blink of an eye.

I wouldn’t lie, my cost of living is high. Infact, very high for someone like me. It’s like every week my cost of living decides to level up and choke me because it’s always bills slapping me left and right and I’d have to settle them regardless. The outside world is really bitter. Personally, I believe if I was back home in the south my cost of living would be lower than it is now because I wouldn’t need to pay any bills since my family will sort that. But life brought me here so I’d have to live through it. Things aren’t really bad for me here, it’s just that I crave $1 million dollars on the daily basis. And that’s exactly what will make my life easier now.

All these mood swings and what have you can be solved with this amount of money. Where it’s coming from, I don’t know. But I know God is cooking something for me. Can I get an Amen.🙌😅
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