Campus Connect Weekly Contest-Week18-Looking Back at 2021 by @lazbless

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Hello my fellow students in the community, I'm happy to be here once again and I'm very happy to be opportune to participate in this contest, thank you @campusconnectng for this opportunity. Stay tuned as you read through.

The year 2021 to me has been everything. It has been good, bad and ugly. I enjoyed some part if it while some part of it were as if the world is going to be over but whatsoever the case may be, I'm happy I'm still alive and I'm happy the year is ending. I have no regrets because of the ugly and bad experiences I had Because I learnt something from it at the end of it all.

As a student, my goals were to be become a good student, developed a good reading habbit and I was really working hard to accomplish this, I can remember becoming a friend to the library and also going for night classes

Also I wanted having something doing alongside schooling so at least I could reduce some loads on my parent. I tried out many things which wasn't favourable to my studies so I dropped them and I thank God I came in contact with Steemit when it got to a point that I didn't know what to do again.

My difficulties began immediately when my dad lost his job. This was really a very difficult time to me and my family at large. Thoughts began to sweep in to mind because no one expected he was going to be fired at that moment, it was so impromtu.

At first things we still normal but at a point, after some months, I began to face reality. My rent got expired and there was no money to renew the rent so I had to stay with my Aunt. This was another challenge because she didn't give me enough time to study compared to when I was staying Alone, I went to the market almost everyday and some days I'll go to the market for like two times. I didn't have any other choice at the moment so I had to endure I got adapted to her and everything but after some months she told me I should leave, without giving me any reason, I guess the burden was too much on her because she was thinking of how to pay my fees so to avoid her paying my fees, she said I should leave.

I left her and moved in with a colleague who's a lady and the problem now was how to feed, some days I go without food and some days I'll eat for like once or twice. Things were really difficult, I started working part-time for people, I did home services and other menial jobs. It got to a point that I almost lost focus so I had to stop working and focus on my studies but it wasn't easy. I told my friends I was going to suspend studies for one year , they told me I shouldn't. They started contributing money for my feeding, I was really feeling bad because I don't like seeing myself as a burden to anyone but I had little or nothing to do about it. All these while, my fees wasn't paid and exams was approaching , I thank God for my school because they didn't close the portals and I could still write exams even without paying fees. Few days after exams had started, God provided my fees in a very mysterious way, I was really excited. I now got the encouragement to read and prepare well for my exams.

After my exams, I went back home for holiday, and my senior brother came back from where he traveled to, he rented an apartment and I moved in with him when school resumed because my colleague I was staying with, had her own personal and private life and sometimes when her friend(a guy) will visit, I'll have to sleep on the floor, a cold floor for that matter. I was thinking of how the new semester was going to be until a friend of mine introduced me to Steemit and I got signed up immediately, that's where things began to be better a little.

In conclusion, I'll say, God is always by our side to see us through if we keep on hoping on him. Sometimes challenges comes our way to make us stronger and while in the face of this challenges, they'll always be an escape route.

Best regards to @campusconnectng, @whitestallion

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