As a young adult, navigating the streets of adulthood is something I feel is highly understated. I always find myself saying our parents and fore parents should have prepared us better for lives on our own but, at the end of the day, everyone is just doing the best they can.
Some people however, are born into positions of privilege and strategic placements, they don’t and will never share the same struggle as those who are figuring things on their own, persons without the privilege and liberty of choices, people without financially literate parents, and born without the right ware of cutlery in their mouth.
Thanks to the lottery of birth, we are all born into different orientations and experiences, and that’s okay, but what’s not okay is rich privileged people breathing down the necks of the not rich and telling them they can amass wealth if they worked hard enough, not only is that largely economically untrue, because poor people work hard all the time and have little to show for it, it is also a blatant disrespect to the poorer masses who work tirelessly to keep the rich properly financed with unequal pay and reparations. Billionaires wouldn’t exist if there aren’t homeless people on the streets and families struggling to survive. The design of wealth distribution is dramatically unequal and will remain so, due to capitalism.
Anyways, starting and living life as a young adult who wasn’t born into money has not been easy. Sometimes I think it is not all about the financial security, but also about the lack of access to information. I wasn’t taught some necessary things, steered in the more appropriate directions. I remember some years ago, I was finishing senior secondary school at the time. It was the close of our debating season and I had a chunk of money from travel intinary for a debate competition in Thailand, Asia.
I had quite a huge amount of money than I was used to at my disposal. I bought a Sonia Experia cell phone, paid off a debt for a friend, bought me other nice things; I was just doing whatever with the money, I didn’t know better, no one gave me options on how I can invest or save the money I obviously didn’t need at that point in my life. If I had invested in the Blockchain then, I’d be so rich by now.
Anyways, that was one chance I didn’t take towards financial breakthrough, many others have come and gone. At this point there’s no one else in the ring but me. No one to blame for my lack of proper knowledge, no one to blame for the opportunities I’ve let slip by, it’s just me now, trying to teach myself the simple act of motivation.
I am quite a realist, I don’t like crying over spilled milk or hurting myself for things that have gone beyond my control. I always try to be honest with myself. Which is why I’ll say that I haven’t always been a goal-getter, I’ve been at bare minimum level when it comes to putting myself out there and making my life better. But, I’m older now, and I know and want better. It is my prayer that I don’t lose myself in the grind, that I don’t lose sight of the things that matter.
At some point in my life I experienced a worrying level of lack of motivation or drive to do life, to dream, to work, to achieve. I was mostly just there. Maybe because I was young and comfortable but it’s all okay. I’m at a point now where my vision for the kind of life I want to curate is clearer and brighter and I’m equally motivated to do the work needed to afford the kind of life I want.
Maybe my next post will be about the kind of life I want; my goals, dreams, aspirations. I rarely ever talk about those with anyone but I think I can write about it. And you know what they say about writing stuff down especial your wishes, they say it gives those words form and fosters actualization.
However, I am grateful for how far I’ve come and really proud of myself for how I’ve navigated life, constantly arming myself with information and continuing to do better.
Thank you stopping by. Have a good day.
See that part about staying motivated? Really hard. And we all reach that point of total distress at some point in our lives.
The best thing about all this is the fact that we keep pushing even with the resistance; which happens to be our mind, body and environment.
I've held money. But lack of information (just as you said) and total ignorance now has me building all the way up.
Thanks a lot for your comment glad to see someone who can relate
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I felt good reading this for some reason. Maybe because I share similar experiences as you or because of how well you wrote it. I’m at a point where I’m struggling to stay motivated, hopefully I get past it soon!
Thank you and I’m glad you can relate. I’m rooting for you to get past it.