With my little time on earth, I have proved some adage wrong and they are somehow connected to my answer for the first Hive Learner's prompt this week.

The Yorubas will say, "Oun to wu omo je, kon run omo ninu" which means whatever a child feels like eating doesn't upset the child's belly. It's an adage so it doesn't necessarily have to be food and in the course of spending on something just because I liked it a lot even when I didn't have enough for it did upset my belly. It did more than to upset my belly because the consequences of satisfying my cravings didn't go well.

There was a particular day I was at an Estate in Ogba, Lagos. I was out for my daily bread and while working, the aroma of roasted plantain kept invading my place of work so I decided to check out who was responsible for the disturbance. Lo and behold, there was a new woman who just started selling the stuff beside the printing press where I worked.

I was able to resist the charm in the aroma initially but it was just for a short time. Every week, I had a fixed amount I spent because I was saving up for school but that day, I spent a whole day feeding allowance on roasted plantain and groundnut which didn't fill my belly even after drinking lots of water. The opposite of the adage happened because after enjoying very well that evening, I got hungry even before 6 pm and slept feeling hungry which means satisfying my cravings punished me whereas the adage says it shouldn't.

We are familiar with the saying "Once bitten twice shy." It's normal for us to learn from our mistakes but that wasn't my case. My second experience happened with popcorn and I was in school already at that time.

There was this popcorn stand outside the school gate, this lady refused to share her recipe with me but it's the best I have tasted. I got bored while studying under a tree and went to get popcorn with Zobo.

I finished one popcorn while chatting with the lady and got two extra with Zobo. It was after I finished it, I realized that part of my t.fare was gone. Instead of leaving school at the usual time, I left school earlier since I had to walk home. I trekked that day and wished, I didn't buy the popcorn.

Among the things that being broke doesn't stop me from buying are Popcorn and roasted plantain, my mom always teased me about being a pauper in my first life. She always claimed that I didn't have money to buy it then that's why I don't have control over them.

There are lots of things I find irresistible aside from the things I mentioned above even when I am broke. It's not like I see them every day and due to the interval between the time I last had it and the time I saw it, my taste bud will force me to get them.

Desperado beer also stands tall on the list. I don't know how but from the first moment I tasted it, all other drinks tasted like water to me. The number one on the list will always be mobile data because it is very important to me.

Since I started using a browsing phone, data is a must-have for me. Even as an adult, when my siblings notice that I am not on my phone, they can easily that I am out of data. Just like an Airtel advert would say, "Data is love".

Due to engagement online, mobile data is one of the most important things to me and if I had to choose between food and data with the last money on me, I would go for data and hustle for food later. I can go around in search of fruits but there are no two ways to data, you can't pluck it or come across it anywhere.

I can overlook other things if I think thoroughly about them but not data because I wouldn't even think about it at all. The moment I get a notification from the internet service provider about running low on data, I top up immediately.