YOU ARE NOT BROKE! YOUR MONEY IS IN THE OVEN, BAKING.
I'm sure @Marapolsa made this tweet in good faith for entertainment, but permit me to build on it as a subject without disparaging the quote, now that "being broke" is near phenomenal and a crime.
I'm sure @Marapolsa made this tweet in good faith for entertainment, but permit me to build on it as a subject without disparaging the quote, now that "being broke" is near phenomenal and a crime.
In my undergraduate days, i spent nearly all my time out of the University at Jakande Estate, Amuwo Odofin, Mile 2, living with an uncle who is a retired civil servant, who lives an austere lifestyle. I chose his place over d place of another wealthy uncle to be with my friends.
Today, it has become years of bossom friendship. All five of us put together perhaps have a combined worth in hundreds of millions. It started in the days we had nothing to eat and we never cared. The only food we had was 'chess.' We'd play morning till evenings on empty stomach.
My comical nature can be traced to how we easily find amusement in everything we lacked. If one out five of us has small cash for food, we'd move like an army to a canteen called "BELGIUM" to scamper over whatever the paltry sum can buy, then jest at who ate the least thereafter.
There was a day we were in a public bus and one of us asked loudly when last any one of us visited "Belgium," and there was a reply, "i was there last week." All passengers in d bus turned to look at us. We didn't look like people that have travelled abroad. We laughed like mad.
Most of our mates had all we lacked, but we were too engrossed in our ambitions to be bothered. We bore confidence that made it nearly impossible to call us broke. We set one another up to shoot at girls that aren't in our league and we banter from the curves. We call it 'isho.'
Most young men today are frustrated with their status primarily bcos d society has adopted a faulty financial baseline. You ain't broke if ur baseline for a meal is "akara" & bread, even if others eat shawarma; especially now that eating shawarma carries with it a sense of class.
I can conveniently eat 3 meals of a day on different continents but i wont, b'cos i learnt at a time i had nothing that that's not how to build sustainable wealth & d society. As u progress, carry along with u those struggling with basic needs, instead of living ostentatiously.
One day BankyW walked into a shop, picked a type of perfume i was about paying for and concluded its too expensive and left. I'm not even a celebrity. T'was as if he borrowed me sense. I left without buying too. He isnt broke. Its a sense of value. Value is a comparative index.
Its not what u buy that makes u a big boy or girl. Its what is left after buying. Many poor people buy expensive wigs today. Buy 250K human hair if u like, but make sure it isnt meant to augment an inferiority complex, an insecurity and u can repeat it, many times, legitimately.
"Not having" is cyclical with us all, including the rich. However, being broke has become phenomenal because we allowed illegitimates hijack the narrative. No person with legitimate ambition can be adjudged broke. You are not broke. Your money is only baking. You will make it!
