Making Gum out of a sour African cherry..part 2

Living alone

This is actually a soft skill you need to hack 🤭
If you don’t eat hunger will deal with you, it’s how you leave your room that you will meet it. No one will tell you sorry if you hit your leg on something.😩
You also won’t be able to wear some clothes because no one will help you zip it up but I’ve learnt that there’s a way around that now. You become extra sensitive to sounds around you.😧
Basically, You’re responsible for yourself.
Make sure you have good friends though, because you would always need help even if they are miles away.

So now to the real owners of the room before I fought for my right. 😩
Initially,I thought I was the legal occupant but appaz I didn’t know. I signed in with just a table and chair but unbeknownst to me, i also signed a full family of scorpions and cockroaches.
I was still battling with the cockroaches when the middle or the last born of the Scorpion family paid me a visit and it almost became a pattern. It was at this moment I decided I needed help .

I prepared for war by fumigating my room and that was when the mother came out. It was very traumatizing as i had never seen a scorpion that big. In short I treaded upon scorpions literally.

Weather

I had a hard time coping with the weather too
There were two extremes, no middle. Its either it was too hot or it was too cold. I don’t think I ever adjusted but one thing I did was to always use my sunscreen.


Finances

This was a major issue to be honest. Nothing prepares people for the sharp recline in funds from Housejob to service year coupled with a bad economy😩. You would cut down on plenty things until you don’t even know what to cut anymore. I’m not going to say much but all I know is True riches comes from God. I thrived.


Navigating life

I became friends with my neighbour. I met amazing people.
Shout out to Tobi, Tomi, Elizabeth, Pelumi,Chimdi and Cyril.
I also had to develop a positive attitude towards everything. Literally making chewing gum out of sour agbalumo(who lemonade help😂😂) made it a lot easier.


Work

I saw this somewhere that ‘If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent the night with a mosquito’ this was my typical night shift 😂😂. I preferred my morning shifts better tbh.

If I should write my honest review about this scheme I can’t guarantee the aftermath. As someone said there’s freedom of speech but not the consequences and I’m not an activist. This isn’t an activist article.

Talking from the standpoint of those in the healthcare system. It’s like you are literally doing an involuntary community service for one year. If you want to do it just make it voluntary in your mind and choose happiness despite whatever you see.
I’ve always worked with this and it’s been my motto; Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

You are given the most uncomfortable housing condition, lowest pay with each establishment paying you ( reward system) what their conscience permits which is inversely proportional to how much work you do all the time. Some who actually have the best conscience with heaven in mind give you what is proportionate to the service you render and literally pity you.
You’re also the solution they’ve been waiting for; the modernized slave and labourer they’ve been praying for. You literally beg for them to see how stressed and how unfair it is but you have no voice literally. I wonder how most people are so used to the suffer head mentallity and you start hearing “in my days” song and they’ve suddenly forgotten or pretend to forget how the economy has nose dived since their time and how they had best offers then.
It’s ‘Suffering continua’ mode for them or they come up with the you’re lazy propaganda and the most annoying of all you signed up for medicine so cope with it . Yen yen yen….🙄

It’s a lot.

Bear in mind that the best workers are those who actually volunteer for something and not those forced into an involuntary community service.


Bringing back this proverb; “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent the night with a mosquito”. The mosquito makes a difference in an annoying way but the principle is the same. One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person’s kindness can save a life. Each person matters.
So how can you or the people who have the influence maximise it and use it for good?

If you missed the first part of this post here is a link

With love,

Estée 💜✨