Memoir Monday - Week #22 | How important has money been in my life?

Hello friends of the #Silverbloggers community I hope you are doing great today. Today I wanted to join Memoir Monday #22 proposed by @ericvancewalton79 in which I tell my little story with money and economics in my life.

I have always thought that money can be a way to have a better quality of life and at the same time a way to be prisoners of it. I'm not saying that money is bad, but if you become obsessed with the idea of filling yourself with luxuries and things that you don't really need, it becomes something like maintaining a way of life that you can show to others. But deep down I know that there are many people who have everything thanks to money and yet they feel totally empty and their lives have no more meaning than that.

My life story comes from two middle class parents who in their time were able to work and before having children were able to buy a car or even a house, my parents divorced after ten years together and they say that the main problem was the economy but really the basis was that my dad's loyalty was lacking but that is another story. After my dad moved on with his life and started a new family, my mom was left in charge of three children and also her mother, a woman already over sixty years old who suffered from several diseases including diabetes, for this reason my mom had a very big burden that today I see and realize how difficult it must have been for her to continue with her life without falling apart in her own emotions and work to support her children and her mother.

Thanks to the fact that my mom really worked hard for years in the company where she works until today, she managed to buy things for the house such as a refrigerator, stove, televisions, air conditioners, washing machine, among other things. My mom's economy was really good in the beginning of the year 2000, then with the country's situation things in the company changed and she was earning a salary far below what she needed to support a household. We her children were studying at the university at that time and my younger sister was in high school, my mom always reminded us that we should focus on studying but the situation became unsustainable so much so that due to the lack of food in my home and the daily stress in which we lived in my country Venezuela I left the university studies and I was very questioned for this, but nobody thought that really the young people of that time we had such a big burden and a severe depression by the situation that the one who was not strong enough would collapse in one fell swoop.

Things changed a lot in my house, after going through a strong pressure from some relatives to vacate the rented apartment where we lived because they thought we would stay with him, thanks to my mom who made the decision in time to buy an apartment in gray work we could move and also thanks to my dad who provided the help to half remodel the place and to inhabit it. Things started to improve a little bit especially because I found in Hive a place where I could grow as a person and at the same time generate income for my house, so much so that I have been able to buy things like food, clothes, medicines and some additional treats.

I feel very fortunate to be in Hive because in addition to being in a complicated health situation with one of my legs where it is difficult for me to walk, I have managed to overcome my fears little by little and I go out to the street to learn from this new way of life that I have and the opportunity to learn new things and thanks to the support of my dad, mom and my siblings I have managed to get out of my comfort zone and realize that although I do not believe that I am an intelligent and capable person, they always remind me of my qualities and that makes me feel grateful, mom and my siblings I have managed to get out of my comfort zone and realize that although I do not believe that I am an intelligent person and with capabilities they always remind me of the qualities I have and that makes me feel grateful, plus I can still count on the support of my parents in a situation like mine where I should perhaps be more stable and with a career, but the clock of others is not the same as mine and things are different for everyone.

Now that I am about to finish a pharmacy course I feel that I can get a job that gives me more stability and where I can save to buy all those necessary things that I have ever dreamed of having. Money is important but we must also take care of ourselves because if we are not well physically and emotionally there will be no money that can improve that, so now I am open to all the positive things that are to come in my life and I am grateful for the support of all the people I have met in my life.

Thanks for making it to the end of this post, I hope you liked it and I appreciate your support and your comments, I send you a big hug 🤗

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