Living an Independent Life: A True Story

The life of an independent is a journey that is simple to mention but not to live with. To live an independent life doesn't just come easy as some people who have not witnessed such life view it to be. To live an independent life comes with qualities like paying your rent, feeding yourself, taking care of your health, and settling all your problems without any external support. This is a life that I have lived for over eighteen years and as I tell you, it's not an easy task. Living an independent life from childhood caused me pain and suffering to the extent I thought life has no meaning and that not everyone is meant to be happy living under the surface of the earth.

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Living an independent life will make you understand that life is not just easy to live. I didn't have to blame myself for living an independent life because if I was opportune to live with people ready to support at least half of things about me. I would have been happy and celebrated it. But since no one was there from childhood to support me, I had no option but to take life the way it was. One of the things I learned about living an independent life was never to live a negative life nor mingle with people ready to mislead me. I lived a life of a commoner who'll have no one to rescue him if there was a problem. This helps me to live and grow till today.

I know that so many are living an independent life and I'm also aware that such a life isn't easy for them to cope with. If you are among those who live an independent life, I know you are faced with different challenges trying to cater to yourself but don't allow the present situation to make you think otherwise. What I mean here is that, when you're living an independent life, a time will come when the temptations of pains and sorrows of needing money to solve the situation will come. If you're not careful about how to handle the situation, you'll be frustrated and confused with negative thoughts to steal or harm anybody to solve the situation. I don't think that's the best life you wish yourself to live. I speak to you that tomorrow will be better for you as I encourage you not to panic and not to do drastic things that will reshape your life from a good to a bad person.

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How did I cope with living an independent life:

Putting all my faith in God: Living an independent life gives you no hope except depending solely on God who happens to handle all situations at every given time. For me to survive independently, I lived a good life seeing people around me as myself, I loved and cared for people, I didn't have bad intentions for people, and I always believe in myself through God who happens to be the author and the finisher of all things.

Having good dreams: As one living an independent life, I always believe that things will get well. For me to achieve this, I work hard through planning life and seeing myself achieving it. I always put down things that I want to achieve in life and after that, I will start working towards the achievement even when I know that no one may support me.

Reading people's testimonies: One important way to survive when you're living an independent life is to make sure you read people's testimonies. They're a lot of people who have witnessed more than what you have witnessed in life and such people will always have testimonies to share through books, social media, news, and many more. When you read their testimonies, you'll see that there's hope for you to survive if they actually did.

Meet with people who have potential: One of the ways to move forward in living an independent life is by mingling with people better than you. You need to try by all means to associate with people better than you. This set of people will always encourage you and you will like to live like them. When you want to be like them, you'll see yourself doing what makes them better than you. Believe me, if you're good to them, they'll always support your dreams either financially, connection, or otherwise.

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