Life is full of uncertainties, this untold negative story happened to me at my younger age. It happened to me when i never know that i was setting a minimalist list lifestyle for my self .As my situation began to adjust and unfold for better, i now realize it was a minimalist lifestyle i have always desired to live from the beginning.
I gradually began to believe the fact that life is not static. I needed help, changes and true adjustments to become a better me because nobody gets to where you are going in life all alone.. As i grow up in age, i bagan to adjust from whom i used to be to a more better version of me, i love and appreciate now.
I used to worry too much, wondering and worried about almost everything. I kept getting sick and looking thin. Before now whenever I heard any negative news, in my heart i will begin to imagine so many options most times the negative opinions will flood my heart, asking myself, "what if this or that happens about this or that". Giving myself a very restless mind.
This type of mindset began at my earliest stage in life. I was quite very tender when my father died. My mother became both the bread winner of the family and trainer to me and my siblings. . Myself being the eldest among my siblings, i began to worry so much about how to complete my own education coupled with my siblings. I began following my mum to her business place. Seeing the certainty of the ugly situation facing us gave me lots of concern.
When my mother begins to worry, i will join her. This situation made us bond deeper than other of my siblings. My mother do confind in me about all her worries, i will then begin to also worry and deeply thinking, "how do we come out of this mess, who will help my family balance in life again." Those were the type of worries always passing through my mind.
As time goes on she became hypertensive because of too much worries and thinking on how to come out of so many financial problems. She began trooping from one hospital to another looking for solutions and how to get back her complete sound health but this disease refused to let go.
Before i know it, the Doctor told me the same story, that i was hypertensive at a very young age. I became more afraid, more worried at hearing this.
I began to receive counseling from the Doctor in that hospital. They began to calm me down with the assurance that i will soon be re- enrolled into school to continue my education, i loved going to school and to be educated. Change began to appear in my mind, i began to calm down with the feelings that i can still achieve my dream carrier which was becoming a nurse....
In my memory now, that was how my minimalist lifestyle list began to occur when i didn't even know what i was really coming up to. Along the line i got married at that early stage and age of my life. After our wedding, My new family moved and lived in Lagos state of Nigeria.
My husband made away for me by encouraging me that all is well. That i will soon get back to school because he knows it was among my life's priorities. I enrolled into a lesson to prepare for my jamb examination and was successful.
Woah 😂, i was seriously joyful then proceeded to Lagos state university (Lasu Isolo campus) and was given admission. To read Human resources management. I went through it for four years and came out very successful with a good grade.
From this stage of achievement i began to change from over thinking and worries to a person of a peaceful heart i was made to be....a peaceful person having zero worries of how to get educated and many others..
The only difference is that i didn't become the NURSE i loved all my life to become. But that doesn't matter because i finally climbed up to the higher level of life from the barest level of life to where i have found myself today. Im completely grateful to those that did one thing or the other to set up the minimalist standard and lifestyle that im enjoying today.
More especially to my dear husband who showed me kindness to fulfill my dream and restored my hopes and aspirations along life's journey.
I changed from over thinking that led me to hypertension to a person of peaceful mind.
Life is a great teacher itself. The experiences of life has always helped me have better versions of me. I never know the actual meaning until now i found myself in this community my memories about how i get here came back up as new as fresh.
I carefully and consciously avoid whatever that will make me worry or get boaderd, that's a great change for me. And it's my perfect and perpetual turn around. This is my life story it happened when i never know i was setting a minimalist standard or lifestyle, im enjoying today.I love being here, it's my first post in this lovely community, hope im welcome.
Thank you everyone here for accepting me, and for your time to come around my post.😂.
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