If I am going to talk about the many opportunities I missed as a teenager, I am sure going to break down along the line, most were as a result of my negligence and being irresponsible, most were due to me putting others before myself, most were because I had responsibilities and I still regret most of my actions till today because if I had sat down to think deeply, may or maybe not, I wouldn't be here but we never can tell, can we?
One thing that I am sure is that I have been a very lucky ass young lady, life happened at a young age, and I had to grow up fast to take up the responsibility of my two younger brothers and my mom, although I later realized that at that my young age, it wasn't my responsibility to the that but then, I did it and I am glad I did it but I wish I had been more strategic and pivotal.
As an hard working young lady and a very smart one at that, I was lucky to get a good job immediately after I finished my Senior Secondary School, I didn't even stay up to two weeks at home when I got the job. It was a job that gave me time to myself and was well paid back then. I did other menial jobs and was lucky, I huddled between jobs and the inflow of money was always there to meet my needs, those of my siblings and anytime my mom needed it but I made a mistake, I never made any investment with that money, I poured it out as it came in.
I didn't even use that opportunity to further my education, which I should have, I mean by now I should have been done with school, done with service and maybe working with a good established organization or doing something different with my life but because I never had plans for myself or for my future, I never made any plans, maybe I had plans for my siblings but nothing for myself, nothing to show.
Still yet, I meet a friend who worked me around crypto years back and luckily for me, it paid me well, I made a lot of money in that year, I had no plans, was still a young girl although I had responsibilities on my neck but I am sure that if I had made plans about investing or starting up an online business, with that sum of money, I owned, right now, I would have been a business owner or maybe invested them in stocks or real estate since they weren't a "big thing" back then but I did none.
Yeah, I could give the excuses that I was a young girl shouldering family responsibility back then because my siblings were still very young when we lost our dad and my mom was constantly ill and having one health issue or another. That may be a very valid excuse to give but I also think that if I had taken a step to sit and think or had a mature person around who would have advised me, I would have preferred the long-term enjoyment and satisfaction over the short-term.
Realizing over and over again anytime I sit back to reflect on those instances I had money and how I can not find anything not even one important thing I at least used that money to do, I feel so much pain deep down. Not even furthering school, not investment, not buying a house or buying a land and building on it, not an online business store for myself, nothing to show for those years I had a lot, those years I lived in money, it makes me heartbroken because I lost those opportunities, I wasted those years.
Although I am in school now, my finals precisely, let's just say in a few months, I would be done with it and when I am done with that, I could move on to the next, but I wish I had done all of them back then when I had the opportunity to do them and was much younger.
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