Submit yourself to the grind
There are days when I wake up and do not want to get up. I can almost hear the calls or responsibilities screaming into my head. The rents, the kids has got to eat, the groceries need to be bought, hospital appointments must be paid for, medicines must be bought, else it's a big problem.
Then for a moment I reflect on all these. Surely, a man's life is difficult; sometimes you wonder how you manage to take on so many responsibilities when the money you have is insufficient to cover all of your bills.
Since I'm poor, why can't I inherit smaller responsibilities? I mean, the rich have enough money to solve their problems, so why does not life simply assign them more financial responsibilities because they have more money?
Why?
Why do I get the ill health that makes me spend so much on medicines, and when I pay for them out of pocket, I can hardly pay for the next one. Why?
While all of these thoughts seem silly and amusing, I discovered that I am not the only one who thinks like this. There are times when we simply want to break free from the never-ending grind of life's meaningless rat race.
The world works in such a way that we are often the source of our own problems, but we always manage to blame someone else. Inflation goes up, our fault, killings, wars, famine, slavery, racism and all that.
Yet, we still find ways never to blame ourselves. Despite the fact that the human race has advanced, we continue to face a major challenge: developing solutions to problems that should not exist. We have economic tendencies that ensure inflation continues to rise, leaving people unable to pay for things they could afford.
If you look around the world, 99% of the problems we face are caused directly or indirectly by our actions. The universe has unwritten laws that we can actually follow, and we are aware of all of this, but we continue to create problems, allow them to escalate, and then blame God for the thousands of displaced families in Gaza.
When I think about my life problems, I mostly acknowledge my flaws and those that are not mine. Guess what? Most of these problems are a byproduct of the consequences of the actions of another person. In Nigeria for example, people would rather lie, than admit they're wrong.
People would vote for the wrong people because the right person did not speak their language, and then blame God for allowing them to suffer. I live in a country where people would rather collectively live in darkness than have one person escape it to experience light. Some people are toxic at heart, and they would rather blame anyone else than themselves.
Whenever I begin to ask myself questions as to why I'm not in a better place, it's probably because I woke up feeling too sick to get up or I'm just dwelling on why life didn't let me have enough energy to grind.
The grind is the grind.
A lot of people will continue to choose the grind over suicide. While my life is messed up in many ways, I still prefer where I am, because many are into in my place, and they're still alive and putting in the work.
Disability is a thing of the body, for me, it's not in my mind
When I feel too weak or sick to pay the bills, I know it is my body that is holding me back; I already know it is not my mind, it is just my body deciding to crash against my will.
However, I know the body is the vehicle of the mind, the mind, no matter how powerful it is cannot live past the limitations of the body. So when I feel like life is unfair, I know I can not blame it on myself. I understand that these are the cards that have been dealt to me, but does this make things easier? No.
No matter how life gets, try and submit to the grind. Nobody will care if you are blind or in a wheelchair; the world will label you as poor without even considering whether it was your fault.
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Many people are still grinding because they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, life may have dealt us a hard blow and giving up may seem like the only way out, but like my brother used to say, na who give up fuck up, the grind is real and even as a lady I understand what people had to go through to accomplish their dreams, but giving up mustn't be an option,
Some women has ot easier though. I didn't say all, just some. They get lucky to meet a man and they don't need to do that much again. However, for me, I don't want that endless rat race, as it can be exhausting.
Yes, many ladies depends on men to survive especially in Nigeria, but there are still many independent women, who don't depend on men for their expenses
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The one rule that is always true is life isn't fair. Our bodies can only do so much before they break down no matter how willing the mind is. We all continue to grind to survive, because we have to survive and take care of our families. Wouldn't it be great to have a perfectly healthy body that could keep up with the mind? I miss those days!
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Exactly. The mind has a different health framework and the body has a different one. Sometimes we feel motivated, but the body just won't let us take advantage of that motivation. Perfect health is rare, except for those with impeccable genes and all. Unfortunately we have to hustle to live life
Money is just a part of our lives, and it's one of the things that everyone will probably have trouble with. Things just continue moving on regardless. So the best we can do is keep on going.
Keep going. Yes, the best is to keep going, but even that is a rat race on its own, although I agree that there are times of satisfaction that we can achieve along the way.
Money is one of the most biggest problem in everyone’s life it’s hard to earn but easy to spend if you can’t control on your money you can waste it like a water. And if we talk about responsibility every man have to carry but I also think that it depends on the family background where he have been born. Because some people have already lots of money.
Yes, many people don't need to work hard, as they've already been established by their parents and have inheritance.
The problems, bills, and responsibilities are our greatest motivation... Cos if we don't earn, who will take care of our famz and our bills... Sometime last year, when I was seriously down with sickness, I still found a way to work, when it got critical that I was so damn week, I skipped work for few hours but immediately I was able to open my eyes and use my hand again, I opened my laptop again.. and it made me realize that as long as I am not paralyzed, I will still get up to work because not working is another torture.'
Yeah, not being able to hustle can be stifling, you get frustrated because you want to, but you cannot. Yeah, I think someone if you can use your computer, it makes it a bit easier, but when the illnesses makes you even too tired to do so, you'll only be left frustrated until you recover.
The sad thing is that life doesn't wait, either you're sick or not, you have to pay a lot of bills, it gets more expensive
Yeah, it is frustrating... I didn't even wait long, cos the moment I realized I could press again, I was back to working... a life full of bills.
Seriously it's up to us to make do with all we have .... life is either cruel or fare, it's just there somehow our actions abandoned in actions have severe consequences on us, ....
About us. One time in the Bible people with functional brains and feelings said give us Babanabas lock up Jesus, that scenarios isn't a myth but a reality....
it used to happen to me quite a lot, wake up when the alarm of the clock decided it was time and i didn't want to face an other shitty day, all for what? to stayt 10 hours at work, come back home, eat go sleep and repeat again... it changed only when the kid was born as the mind was always busy...
but it's true, as you say we are in a rat race... i wish you that one day either on health or financial side things can turn better
I use to have an alarm sort of, in my early 20s, not always but sometimes, I did it for work. It was always a constant repeat to grind, because the bills are not a one-time payment. Bills are meant to be sorted either daily, weekly or monthly and all that. So the constant need to get money to meet all these deadlines is why I actually called it a rat race.
Yeah exactly it's the constant need that ruins you, you pay once and then you gotta worry already for the next one, in an endless cycle
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Many people are wishing the life which we have … even we have lots of things which bother us but maybe someone is wishing that life too 😅😅
There is a need to always balance this odds friend. Not an easy one when responsibilities are high. But there is what is termed 'economy of peace'. This is where you don't allow the world situation to define you. I try my best daily to operate from this realm, a lot of peace of mind behind it.
While we grind, let's remember we all have 1 shot at life. So grind and also enjoy it to the best.
A sane mind is less likely to continuously have a sick body.
Even though the world around us drive sus crazy, a conscious move towards sanity helps quite a lot.
Accepting this fact can be hard, but I think there's a liberating effect that comes with understanding that the work needs to be done if we want to keep surviving with our loved ones. For me, what's hard sometimes is listening to the body when the mind still wants to keep doing the work :)