Turning Financial Hardship into Resilience: A Personal Journey

We've all, at one point or another, gone through financial instability and hardship, and such situations can be so hard on us that we can come to a consensus within our hearts never to be broke and do anything within our power to leave such a state to turn our lives around positively until we become financially stable. Today I'll share the story that made me resolute never to be broke again.

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In my late teenage years, several years ago, I experienced a situation that made me have a desire to be rich and never be poor in my life. It was a very embarrassing experience that made me feel shy about walking freely on the street due to how embarrassed I felt—not just me but my dad and immediate family.

It happened that then we stayed in a rented apartment and my dad was unable to pay the house rent for awhile, and on one of such days the teenage son of our landlord, who was about my age, came to knock on our door to demand the house rent, and while my dad was trying to plead and let him know he'd come and meet his father, our landlord, to discuss the issue, the young boy fleeing up and started shouting and abusing my dad.

He even walked into our house and threw some of our property outside; during that process, it attracted other neighbors and passersby. I felt so embarrassed, because I guess the landlord internationally sent the boy to do just that, which is why he sat inside and did it as if he wasn't aware of what was going on.

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Since we're about the same age and do interact prior to then, I decided to walk up to him, and hopefully that would make me calm down, but instead I got one of the most disheartening statements I've ever been spoken to, and at that point, I vowed never to be poor and do everything legitimately possible to be rich.

While I was busy trying to persuade him to please calm down, he just shut me up and told me it's not his fault; my father doesn't know how much a brick of block is worth, not to mention building a house. That statement got me angry; in fact, I felt like punching him, but the meaning of that word hit me so badly that I couldn't even do anything other than look.

Though things later calmed down that day, I couldn't even find the confidence to walk down the street out of embarrassment. Fortunately for us, my dad was actually already building his own house, and the embarrassment that day made him just decide to rush in and complete two rooms among the building so we could move in, and within a week, we moved out of the house.

Though the young boy's statement about my dad not knowing how much a brick of block is sold ended up being false, I was still hurt, and that has been a yardstick for me down the years when hustling. I worked towards achieving my goals, breaking bonds so as to become a success, and never had to go through such embarrassment in my life.

That's about all there is to the story behind me deciding never to be broke in my life, and this is written in response to the Hive Naija community prompt that can be found here.

Thanks so much for your time, stay productive.