You have a SOUL,
but you live in MARKETS.
You have values and aims.
You believe in family, honesty, faith, freedom.
And you want things: money, love, a good career, a meaningful life.
That’s the real you.
But the world outside works differently.
That's the part about trust we don't talk about enough.
Sometimes, you're not taking the risk yourself.
You're just standing close enough to someone else's risk that, when everything falls apart, you fall with them.
The first time, it was ₦50,000.
Nothing happened.
The second time, nothing happened.
Even the third time, everything was fine.
But the fourth time changed everything.
He didn't share in whatever happened to the money.
But because he had signed his name as a guarantor, he couldn't simply walk away.
An arrangement was eventually made, and he had to pay part of a debt he never benefited from.
The agency couldn't find them.
And his friend—the person he trusted enough to stand for—had messed up badly.
But the debt still had to be dealt with.
And guess who they came looking for?
The guarantor.
He didn't benefit from the ₦300,000.
He didn't make the investment.
Sometimes, they go wrong after you've become comfortable.
The money they borrowed for agriculture was diverted into something else.
The business didn't go as planned.
The money was gone.
Then the people who collected the loan became difficult to reach.
Their plan?
Agriculture.
But the man I was working with wasn't part of the business.
He wasn't investing.
He wasn't taking any of the profit.
He was simply the guarantor.
He had his own business to worry about.
But things don't always go wrong at the beginning.
After all, what are friends for?
The first loan went smoothly.
Then it happened again.
And again.
Nothing went wrong, so naturally, the trust grew.
Until one day, his friend came back—this time with another person.
They wanted to collect ₦300,000.
I once worked closely with someone whose name I'll keep anonymous.
He was jovial, friendly, and accommodating.
One day, a friend came to him with a request.
He wanted to collect a ₦50,000 loan and needed someone to stand as his guarantor.
He agreed.
The worst form of self hate is going broke just to prove that you are not broke. The person you are competing with fit just Dey spend 0.5% of his daily earnings while you are spending your four months sweat to show say you too big 😂 - KAA
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The Martin Luther King Jr. speech that plays in my head everywhere I go:
"Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Meet yourself before the world tries to define you.
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