Every person have his or her own story to tell and majority will have a sad side in their story but I think I'll give a more sadder story that will end in tragedy if I had not found Hive (More like if Hive had not found me). I won't go in the direction of hyping Hive, I would instead give facts why I think it will be sad stories without Hive existence.

I've read a lot of stories (testimonies) of how Hive has brought great changes to people's lives and saved a lot of extreme cases. I have my own story and I'm so glad writing about it now which means, I'm alive and being grateful for the opportunities I embraced and allowed to change my life for the better.

Extreme cases where Hive saved my life...

I think there are more tiny cases where Hive saved the day for me than extreme cases but I can't forget about these special cases that Hive is still helping me through up till date.

Before I joined Hive, I once worked at a law firm as a secretary. I was getting a pay of 10k per month (approximately 16 dollars monthly). I didn't think it was too little for the work I was given as I was happy to leave the house daily and earn some money for myself for the first time. It was going all well and good until the so-called lawyer I was working for began to show who he truly was.

Imagine working straight 10 hours for a little pay of 10k and getting heartbreaking insults daily...

That was my case then, I couldn't say anything about it even to my mum because I wanted to continue working and not rely totally on my mum (it's not like I wasn't still relying on her totally then). The lawyer was so aggressive with his words and as a soft minded young girl, little words not minding if they were true or not, got to me easily.

I felt myself going into low self esteem and self hate, I felt I wasn't good enough and would never be able to work for people... I thought I was bad at communicating with people, I felt like the worse human back then. Well, thanks to my activeness on a platform I first joined through a friend to blog away, I found Hive. Just a few weeks after I joined Hive, the other platform crashed. I didn't feel the grief too much because I was welcomed so sweetly here on Hive.

So if Hive had not existed, I would have fallen back to finding a job with a mentally failed brain who thinks she can never last long in a job. I would have continue being a self hater until I got admission into school (Yeah, it was during the time schools had refused to give me admission).

I'm still in school so the memory is very fresh in my head to tell how Hive has elevated me from telling those stories that students normally do tell because of lack of resources to study in peace. After many attempts to get admission while I was blogging and earning tiny pays, I finally got admitted into a university that demands for more money than federal universities.

My family and I had no choice than to take the opportunity and I began to study even though it wasn't a course I wanted. It wasn't easy at all to get the money for my tuition at first, mum had to borrow from a cooperative to pay and the stories after taking that move are stories I wouldn't like to tell more than once.

Even though I was making sure to study fine, I couldn't stop worrying about how mum would be able to pay off her debts which she owes because of me. Well, thanks to Hive, that story is in the past. It's even my mum that's owning me money now 😂 and I feel so relieved whenever I think about it. If Hive had not existed to take care of my random needs at school, I'd be a drop-out by now. Because there were times when my dad and mum had nothing to give for my fees especially my room rent 😢 I had to take out of my Hive wallet to sort it out. I won't say I don't call home anymore but not as often as I did before I started to earn for myself through Hive.

It's normal to fall sick as we are all humans after all but the fear is that there should be money to sort the bills when we do fall sick. Well, how mine is an extreme case is that "I do have constant stomach issues here and there" and it requires me spending money to go back to my healthy self again. We're still researching on a permanent cure but for now, I have to face my reality. Buying drugs every month except I want to act like a superwoman when the pain comes which never ends well for me.

I am an ulcer patient and ever since I found out about it, I've been buying drugs here and there. I can't start calculating how much I've taken out of my Hive account to sort out hospital bills and sometimes pharmacy bills to stay healthy.

What if Hive never existed? I think you know the answer already but I'll say it in a sentence "I would have been in a situation of life and death surgery" due to constant negligence of my health since no money to buy medications. I've actually landed myself in a hospital one time when I tried to act all strong and neglect my medications because I got tired of everything. It wasn't a good story at all, my parents spent a lot and I spent too for that act alone.

I can also remember gaining knowledge of how to control the ulcer pain from a caring Hiver when I poured my heart out in a post, she was a life saver (not sure if she knows about that). I have been able to manage the ulcer thanks to my Hive earnings and friends I've come to know here.

_{A picture of me experiencing all the goodness of Hive}

I won't go in details about this side of my story to keep a shorter post but these are what Hive has helped me achieve even when they first seem impossible to me. I had never thought of myself facing a camera to sing or sharing my writings with anyone or communicating with people and having fun with it... Hive made all that possible for me.

I am not just grateful that Hive exists, I'm more grateful that I'm here on Hive. It could have been existing and I won't be aware of it... I can't imagine how sad my life's story would have been.

Thanks to Hive account@starstrings01 and Hive account@josediccus for this beautiful challenge, I'm reminded once again to stay grateful. Do you have an extreme case where Hive saved you? You can join the challenge too.