While growing up, we all wished to grow into adulthood quickly so as to leave our parents’ house and enjoy our privacy. Are we enjoying the privacy now? Are we enjoying adulthood? These are questions every adult knows the answer to. Even as I type this, there are still some children who can’t wait to graduate from high school and get into the university so as to become their own masters and owners of their private lives.
When I was younger, a teenager living with my parents and siblings, I acted the same way, especially when the workload in the house was too much. We weren’t many in the house, and I was somehow among the last set of children. The eldest ones didn’t bother doing house chores, and we saw them as authoritative and annoying too because of the way they handled us, the younger siblings. Our parents restricted us from doing many things; we had just a limited time with the TV and were not always allowed to go and play with friends.
I finally got to be alone; I finally got my private life in my own hands, and truthfully, it has not been what I wished for. The initial stage when I left home for the university was very fine because I was still getting full sponsorship from my parents. All I did then was spend without much consideration because the money kept coming, and there was no lack. But when I got to 200 level, life began to tell on me. The whole sponsorship reduced, and I was left with endless calculations and deep budgeting whenever money got into my account and I wanted to make purchases. That was when I began to wish I was still at home, eating from mommy’s pot without knowing how the food came about.
Financing has been the major reason why I sometimes wish I were still a baby so as to live life without worries. I feel that those children born with a silver spoon do not get to wish to go back to childhood because they have all their problems sorted out with the money available. If there’s money available in excess, I don’t think I would ever dream of going back to the childhood stage. I haven’t faced any problem that isn’t monetary-centered. Adulthood is beautiful if money is there; the privacy is top-notch because one has control over their life. Just like I have it currently—I have control of the things I do, the places I visit, and most importantly, the people that come into my life.
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