This is so real.
I’m a grown man, and I lived in so much poverty that there was no money for enjoyment. The money my parents had was strictly for survival.
My life changed about 2 years ago, and now I have “adult money.” 😂 It’s very, very plenty to me sha.
So I decided that I’m going to start experiencing things I wish I had experienced growing up.
I used the train for the first time this year.
Went to the beach for the first time this year.
Went to the zoo for the first time this year.
Tried an expensive restaurant twice this year.
Started trying different delicacies.
I even had “qwasan” this year. That thing that looks like a burger sha. I think the spelling is croissant. 😂
Omo, the number of ice cream flavours I’ve discovered this year alone. I didn’t even know they had alcoholic ice cream. 😭
I’m planning to learn how to swim this year.
Probably driving too.
Rooftop apartment too. 😂
These things sound very normal, but I’m experiencing some of them for the first time as a grown man.
That’s one thing poverty does to you.
It makes you see only one side of the world that exists.
You spend so much time trying to survive that you don’t even realize there’s a whole world of experiences you’ve never had.
And the scary part is that getting the money doesn’t automatically fix your mind.
I’m still mentally struggling to drop some random habits I picked up from those years.
Sometimes your account has changed, but your brain is still in survival mode.
That’s why I’m so against poverty.
Not because I think money is everything, but because I know what poverty can take away from you.
I’m glad I’m helping people figure things out.
Because poverty is a scary place to be.
But we’ll get there soon.
Even your government knows that if they give you the best education, the best opportunities, the best infrastructure, and the right environment to thrive, you have a better chance of becoming one of the best.
And if you end up becoming one of the best, you will be difficult to control... Which is a problem for them.
So instead of fixing the system that keeps producing the same problems, they call you lazy and convince you that you are the problem… while presenting themselves as the people trying to save you.
The thing standing between you and your potential is not a lack of talent, It is the quality of the environment your talent is being forced to survive in.
So stop looking down on yourself, you are not useless... It is the system that is designed to make you believe that you are not doing your best and that you have nothing to offer.
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Never confuse confidence with recklessness…
They made their decisions under circumstances that may be completely different from yours... And wisdom is understanding why what they did worked for them.
Every powerful, wealthy man you know was led by something...
This is why two people can make the same move and arrive at completely different destinations.
One was following a path… the other was following a person.
To imitate the move, you must understand what produced it.
Learn what they know & understand what they saw.
Ask the deeper questions… forget what you see on the surface.
The surface is where you see the sweetness… the foundation is where the sacrifice was made AND where something had to die, for something greater to take its place.
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