THE COST OF LIVING

everything has a cost including Living

before now truth be told most of us care little about the cost price of this or that, you can randomly take 5k to the market without budget and just know that no matter what the amount in your hand will get you everything and still have change, that awareness was never there, things were cheap and you didn't need to bother, but now? you have to consciously calculate every penny you have and how much you're about to spend.

before now you can reachout to someone and ask for help and without any talk here and there you can get a helping hand, but now? everyone is trying hard to survive, so who is helping?

truly everyone is trying to survive, the weight is felt by everyone, the cost of foodstuffs, is on a steady increase, if you spend 5k on something you need twice that amount now, that means spending more on same quantity. as a matter of fact now you spend more on less, quality and quantity is on a decline.

the only thing that isn't affected by the cost of living is the free oxygen we breath, but there's a level of lowness one get to the air seems suffocating

the truth is every day it's on the increase, things are getting expensive and you need to earn more to spend more, while I was serving, the feds have increase the allowance to 77k from 33k, now when adjusted by inflation is literally the same amount just a change of figure, in this case the amount was increased so was the cost of living.

I was telling a friend that to stay sane into today's world you need to earn some extra cash. so that means your regular 9-5 job alone cannot sustain you, the regular customer base is not enough to sustain the business and you, this means that by all means you must stretch.

if you're on a salary job then its time to measure up ask for a raise or you find a side gig to offset the extra spending, if you're running your own business it's time to evolve, upscale add up something extra on the side to bring in some more funds.

this is a very tight and critical period, for the first time I know for sure everyone is affected by the economy, as far as you eat, buy things from the market there's always a possibility of spending more for almost the same or less of what you usually get for the price, the rich, middle-class and the poor, everyone is affected, so? try the best you can to sustain and upscale, try to stay relevant and on-demand, got a skill? market yourself, none yet, pay for one, today's reality is that regular usual stuffs are not enough, it's time to upscale.

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