Experience Is The Best Teacher
Regardless of how good or terrible a year is, it always comes with certain experiences that mold us into something good or bad.
This year was a tough one, I have heard testimonies from many individuals about how difficult the year has been world wide. It was as if the average citizen would be extinguished but God has been faithful. This year was a typical example of "Tough times don't kill."
I was with an elderly woman yesterday and she was telling me how that despite the hardship and the inflation people were still able to eat and to drink during Christmas.
It's indeed a miracle, it's points to the fact that our lives are in the hands of God and not a man or even the government.
This year has been one of the hardest years for me. I am someone who doesn't fall sick easily. There was a time when I spent close to five years and didn't step into any clinic to get drugs for myself. So, I was careless about my health. I ate anything, drank water from just any source, starved myself, and overworked myself.
Little did I know that I was doing myself harm. As soon as we entered this year, things changed. From the first quarter of this, I started falling sick, around February I was down, I was taken to the hospital, and after a check-up, I was admitted, and for the first time in a long while, I was dripped and spent 24 hours on the hospital bed.
After that, around the second quarter of the year, I was Ill again but I was lucky enough I was not admitted. I went to the clinic and ran a check and I was given medications.
I scaled through the third quarter without any health challenges and it was a beautiful one.
Coming to December, about three weeks ago, I woke up shivering. The next thing was I saw myself on the hospital bed with a drip. It was such an experience this year. The little resources we were trying to put together to eat and drink had to go to the hospital to save my life.
One thing I am grateful for is the fact that I recovered in the end. Many people fell sick like I did but didn't recover. Some were taken to hospital like me and it was their corpses that returned home.
Lessons
One big lesson I got from those experiences is to always save money for unforeseen circumstances. It was as if I knew I was going to be down, I started to power down. Though initially, I had a project on ground that i wanted to channel the money into but when this health issues came, I had to use part of the money to settle my bills.
If not for the savings I had on Hive honestly, I don't know what would have happened to me especially for the last one. All the public hospitals were on strike, it was just the private ones that were available and they have a crazy policy of making deposits before treatments commences.
While I was unconscious my Mom borrowed and made the deposit, when I regained consciousness, and she explained to me, I withdrew what I had and settled the debts then paid the remaining balance before the treatment was completed and I was discharged. What if I had no savings?
Another thing I learned is to make my health a priority, I had to reduce the rate at which I do hard labor, start eating well and drinking water from clean sources, Prevention is better than cure.
