There’s no food in the house except bouillon cubes and the ends of a loaf of bread.
You eat powder dried fish and noodles for dinner every Friday, made with only three super pack to feed a family of six.
Mother forges a medical form for me to attend school In middle school I finally get glasses. On the drive home from the eye doctor, I stare in amazement at the new world. The concrete has cracks in it?
I switch to soft contact lenses in high school. They are supposed to last a year, but I wore them longer. After one rips, I moved the remaining lens from eye to eye every few weeks. When I finally see the eye doctor again, he tells me to tell my mother to bring you more often, and I felt ashamed.
You have only enough money for one new shirt, so you choose a black one, because black is always in fashion. You’d prefer a trendy colorful shirt, but it would be out of style before you could buy another.
Most of your clothes are from the thrift store, which means they smell like somebody else’s sweat. Or you buy clearance items that aren’t your size. You get used to wearing clothes that don’t fit. So what if your stomach aches because your pants are too small? So what if your feet hurt because you wear the wrong-size shoe? You’ll survive.
You have a nagging feeling that you are never good enough. Rich people can practically smell your poverty. So can salespeople. Maybe it’s your crooked teeth, since your parents couldn’t afford braces.
You don’t deserve to have a child. How irresponsible of you! You can’t possibly bring a child into this situation. That's what I promised myself as I grew to be a man
Now I have grown up a graduate looking for a job is one thing getting a job is another thing , with the situation of the country one. You finally get a low paying job at least a job is a job right? ,Wrong , just because you want to leave the neighborhood so someone won't call you jobless and useless at least you could go out in the morning and get back in the evening.
You work two or three jobs at a time. You learn how to get the best shifts and overtime. You manage to make it. Still yet at the ending of the month what you get can't help you out .
Now you are older and tired but less broke. You have some nice things. People who are broke don’t realize you were once one of them.. now you are into graphics design and web development and you have to market yourself to get a client and after the work the client loves the job, you beg them for reference which they accept and the door of blessings begins to grow and open.
I thank God for giving me the strength to move and carry on not relenting , but I will never be broke in my life anymore.