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I don't think anyone reading this hasn't passed through the experience of being broke. That feeling of being broke — an empty wallet, bills piling up, and the feeling that drains one of not knowing how to make ends meet would create a lot of negative effects on an individual. But even when money is tight, there are still some things we cannot avoid buying. It's just like something bad would happen if we don't buy it and we don't mind borrowing or taking a loan to get them at all cost. Call it human nature, call it survival instinct, just agree with me that we all have that thing we buy no matter how penniless we are.
The common things just to mention a few that we cannot do without buying are food, and utilities like electricity, water, gas, etc. These are necessities that humans cannot do without, even if they are struggling to make ends meet.
I have experienced being broke many times and the emotional toll it brought on me wasn't palatable and it is something everyone goes through too. Not having money to do something as quickly as possible brings you unnecessary stress, shame and even guilt. Guilt, in the sense that you feel you aren't capable of helping those around you because of your inability to provide family's needs. I usually feel frustrated and peevish whenever I don't have money on me. I feel like someone already failing in life and feel as if it's the end of the world, and when money comes in, you see the immediate change on your face, you smile, feel positive again and motivated to do things you left in pending. What money can do to a person is something magical.
With all I have explained about being broke, there is one thing I cannot go without looking for ways to make it happen. Even if it meant I should spare the last change on me knowing if I buy that particular thing, there is no hope for me again. I don't mind. That thing is "Data subscription"
Oh please, I cannot do without subscribing on my phone. A phone without data is just like a dead one even if there is a 100% fully charged battery on it. There was a time I didn't know my data was finishing, and unexpectedly, I couldn't browse again. Something I do is that whenever my data is getting finished and popping a message of what I have left, I try to buy airtime on my phone from my account so that if it gets exhausted, it can be easier to subscribe since I already bought airtime. On this day, my mind wasn't there and pim..data has gone. I then called my sister to transfer airtime to my line so that I can subscribe myself because there are points I get for doing that myself. These points are accumulated and used to subscribe later. My sister promised to transfer soon as she was busy then.
My dear readers, the 'soon' became a decade in my eyes. It looks as if my life has been taken away from me and I was lifeless. I felt so empty that I began to wonder what could happen in another minute if I don't come online. At that point, I was assuming I had missed some opportunities online. It wasn't funny again when I started acting weird all alone in the room. I wasn't myself again and stress was added immediately. I kept staring at my phone waiting for a message from her. I didn't want to call her again since she told me she was busy in the office. I didn't want to disturb her! It was at that moment I realised my phone is my life. I cannot do without being online even if I have my phone fully charged. I don't play games. Even listening to music wasn't interesting to me at that moment.
After about thirty minutes which seems like weeks to me, I called her to remind her and she was like "Haaaa...Busayo, I am so sorry, I forgot." I said it's okay even when it wasn't okay. Then she sent it. Immediately she did, I subscribed instantly and I came back alive 😆 My body came back to normal and that was when I had an appetite for the food I cooked.
So, you see! I cannot do without a data subscription. No matter how broke I am, I must find money for data. I don't mind using the last money meant for food for data. As long as I am online and seeing what is happening, it's okay by me.
Another thing is Sanitary pad. I remembered my first menstruation, it was a pad I used because mom was able to get it for me. But as I was growing up, I felt buying a sanitary pad is a waste of money when I could use tissue and clothes. I couldn't continue especially with the clothes that smells every time on me. I started saving every month to get a pad so I don't lack buying it. Even when I am so broke, a pad will always be bought because I wouldn't want to stay on my pant during my period as I cannot even think of using tissue or clothes, not when I am already mature enough to know what is right and healthy for me.
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