The hardest side of the economy has now become a story that has no ending, because, in one way or the other, there will be an influence. The way I see it, there is something it does to me, and this is what i want to deep dive in this post.
So back at it. I used to see a thousand Naira as a very big amount of money, but today, I can only remember about how I used to see it, but, that amount of money can not buy me the stuff I need anymore. Meanwhile, it was the reverse in those days, and my friends have to be there, if I was with such amount, because, definitely, we will all get ourself a plate of pepper soup, and I will still have some change for transport.
Even in those times, my mom used to report me to my father, that I am fond of lavishing money, when gave to me. To be frank, I used to feel somehow bad about it, and I did wanted to change from that lifestyle.
There was this day, my father, asked me that if I continue this way, it might affect me when I grow up, because i was of age to have a savings box, because when he was my age, he did have it, and that make him to be calculative on the way he spent.
It was still on that agenda, he let me to understand that, this thousand naira we are playing with, there was a time his salary were not up to a thousand naira, and as long as he recalled, no colleagues of his, in their working place, that was earning up to that amount, their salary stopped at hundred naira, and some people were even paid fifty naira.
It was an interesting story to me, and I was listening very well, because that let me to understand how time's fly's, how things change, and how life take another turned.
He went further that, the people who were counting in thousands were few in each towns, and they were seen as the top people who were on cash. In essence, he was like educating me of how valuable was a thousand naira.
It was becoming a matter we deliberate for quite few minutes together, and there, I point out that, it might be so because, costs of living were affordable, and he accepted that it was true, because, nobody will be earning that little amount of money, and he/she will still get fuel from fuel-station, service his car or motorcycle, feed himself and his family, and as well, still be able to go to work.
Right now, an agenda like that seems harder to talk about, because if you do, it means, you will still say a thing about it tomorrow, since it seems we are running in circle. The deal is, things are out of hands. Imagine, three hundred thousand naira can not feed a household.
So, generally, the economy has had a very bad influence in my life, I pray I source out other means of survival, and get ahead of it, because at this time, things are not the way we thought it will be, maybe, just as they said that, most times, people get things they did not expect will come.
Thereafter, the truth about it is that, we must survive, I see the hardest side of the economy as a training that I am giving myself for it to get better, and for us to adapt.
Image is mine.