Getting Your Life Together Equals More Financial Responsibilities In An African Home

As adults we hope to grow older and also get our lives together, most times getting outlives together could be equated to being financially stable before a certain age. This puts so much pressure in our lives. If you come from a wealthy home, or a home where trust fund is set out for you, then its a different ball game. Most people who come from a trust fund home most times spend the rest of their lives trying to prove they are worth the trust fund or can do without the trust fund. But people who were not born in a privileged home, without trust fund, responsibilities automatically goes to the person with the most figured out life.

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Talking from an African home, responsibilities are usually given to the eldest children, because the family feels that being the eldest child amongst the siblings, your younger siblings have to look up to you, and you had a great head start withe the age gap to figure your life out. But we all know its not true, age doesn’t matter in figuring your life out which is equated to being financially stable. People get lucky and find a niche to sets them on to financial stability earlier than expected while some people are not so lucky and some were lucky but made mistakes and lost their financial stability. Its all about life and the complex and unpredictable nature of life. When you get your life together in an African home, this automatically increases your financial responsibilities. You see the parents depending on the person, their siblings depending on the person, friends depending on the person, even the society depends on them. Living them with no breathing space for growth.

As a person who is in the state of being considered the final stable one, you are subjected to a state where you dont want to disappoint the people who rely on you. People will always make you want to take more responsibility in all aspects. You are left to make the choice of accepting the responsibility the world (your family and society) put on you. Your society won’t care to know how much responsibility you can take, your job to them is take it when they ask you to take, but you have the choice to refuse it and take far less than you can take. Its usually advisable to take far less than you can take or handle, just to give you space and room to also grow and nap. Because on this journey of financial stability, you some time to rest and rejuvenate so as to maintain the financial stability and keep growing.