My landlord called to notify me that she has increased the rent, I wasn't surprised, I was just disappointed.
I know it wouldn't be such a long time before she increased it, but I was disappointed because I could have taken some measures to make sure I stopped being a victim of price manipulation from the real estate sector, but I lost that window.
I also experienced some unexpected losses in the past few months and I've made other multiple financial mistakes in the past few months and this hurt so much. I was beginning to question my ability to make the right decisions.
I've made sentimental decisions over logical choices, and even though I wasn't always like that, I remembered that I lost my abilities to be thoroughly meticulous and no longer made the right choices like I used to do.
Also, many sectors in Nigeria are currently unregulated, a lot of people are suffering because of the lack of participation of government in the economic and financial sector of the country.
Over 3 years ago, fuel subsidy was removed in Nigeria and instead of fuel being cheaper, it has experienced a 500% hike in price and the government has embezzled most of the funds that came from the fuel subsidy.
So every other thing has skyrocketed in price, and even the government responsible for this has actually bought over the electoral body in the hope to elect themselves for second term, they're bribing people and shutting down people who are questioning them, imprisoning anyone who tries to defy them and even making people disappear and shutting them down completely.
The people who are top big to be shut down are being bought over, these guys are spending the country's funds trying to bribe the other bodies of government instead of spending that money to build the nation. It's criminal, but that's the reality we're in now.
A lot of people are running away from the country, people who can afford 30 to $40k. Places like the US is even shutting down their borders from Nigerians. The country feels uninhabitable and politicians are making sure to squeeze out life from the remaining citizens.
Internally it's been difficult for me, I've made horrible mistakes that has affected my finances too. Last year looked solid and I finished very well but this years has been all sort of challenging. I don't really like to say too much about internal struggles as I don't want to give off a lot of information about things I want to keep private, but I guess I'm allowed to ramble a bit around the situation.
My Twitter monetization journey hasn't gone very well either, it's been too challenging. I've had to put in 12 to 13 hours of daily grind and hustle and it's honestly not even hit the tip of the iceberg. Is it a promising opportunity, of course but I guess it's more of a marathon than a race. Sl
Do I have other plans?
Of course I do, I like to keep a lot of that to my self, because a plan without clarity and direction is still a dream that is not yet to find shape. At this point I still have nothing.
I'm trying to make things work when the conditions are not favourable enough for me. It's so hard to build in a faulty foundation, but I guess hope and faith and constantly pushing the barrier is all the ability I have at this point. I hope in a week, month or year, the situation may be a bit different from what it is. Rant over, I hope I feel a bit better after this.