Risk, Responsibility, and Real Growth

Risk-taking is an important thing we should all do to bring about progress, achievement, and a better life for ourselves, although it's understandable that we're always being advised to stop taking delicate risks, but that doesn't mean we should abstain from risk entirely, because at the end of the day every single step and decision we take is a risk on its own. And in the light of that, I've taken many risks throughout my life to date. One of the scariest and most fearful risks I took in the just-concluded year 2025 is what I'm about to talk about today: why I took it and if an opportunity arises to do the same, if I'll do it or not.

One of the biggest risks I took in 2025 was so scary to the point where I kept on asking myself how I'll sail through life for the remainder of the year, especially given the fact that I took the first just barely two months into the year 2025—that's in February. To show how crazy the risk sounds, I even gave a testimony during the crossover service about how God sailed me through what might have been had things gone south after I took the first. So what then? The risk is what I'm sure you'll be wondering and trying to know. Well, worry no more because I'll share it below.

It happened that in February an opportunity to purchase a landed property showed up, and if you're close to me, you'll know I've longed for years to own my own house, and buying that land would be the first step towards achieving that goal. But the challenge is that the land was actually very expensive, and I don't have what it takes to buy it at once with what I've got. Overall, the total cost of the land is more or less like the entire salary I was supposed to earn from January to December of the year. Despite how crazy it sounds, I still went ahead to take a loan alongside what I've had on the ground to purchase the land, not thinking about how I'll survive and still manage to pay back the loan with interest.

Given the weight of the loan I took, I'm not supposed to even have any money to feed myself, not to mention transport myself to work, because the money I'm supposed to earn till December has already been spent, and as I'm receiving a salary, I ought to be remitting it to pay back the loan. But thankfully God came through, and I was able to not only pay back the entire loan before the end of the fourth month. I even went on to spend more than 3x what I'm supposed to earn that entire year on different aspects of my life, such as getting some important items, preparing to get married, and sponsoring my wedding.

So peradventure an opportunity for me to repeat the same risk arises this year, will I take it? To be honest, I don't think I'll or can take it, and the reason behind it isn't far-fetched. You see, for the majority of last year I was single and mostly only responsible for myself, but as far as this year is concerned, now I'm married and not only responsible for myself but also for my wife and possibly if or when a child comes into the picture. So with that reason, that's why I can't take such a risk. Although I might take the risk halfway through in the event that my wife is working and she agrees to me taking such a risk, while she helps with a few needs around the house till everything is sorted.

All photos are taken and edited on canva.