#Steemit Ultimate Challenge 8Weeks - Week#4
Hello fellow steemians, welcome to my blog. I would love to take you through my life before joining steemit. My name is Peter Echeng from Cross River State, Nigeria, am presently based in Ibadan the capital of Oyo State, Nigeria. Am a student of the University of Ibadan, a 400l student of Psychology.
My life has been a life full of nightmare of uncertainty, one may not understand how tough life could be if he has never experienced it. Life could be hell to the poor.
The initial unwelcome circumstance that happened in my family already align a tough life for me and my siblings. My dad abandon my mum when i was very young, about 5yrs old, my dad use to work with Construction Company in Nigeria, back then we were doing fine all together before my parents marriage broke up.
My dad as a result of his job was transfered from one location to another and then he used to take my mum along anywhere he is transfered to, but the devil creep in, in one of my dad's transfer, he didn't carry my mum along only to tell her to wait a bit with us in our home town, that he was going to send some money to her so she could come with us to join him. But it was not forth coming because my dad stopped sending money for our upkeep for a long time. My mum had to find her way to get my dads location where he was working in Abuja, Nigeria. So she went there to see my dad only for her to meet another woman with my dad pregnant and close to delivery. My mum was surprise because she and my dad had no misunderstanding before the incident, my mum begged my dad to forgive her if she had wrong him in any way, in which my mum did nothing wrong. My dad just decided to change suddenly. My mum gave birth to 4 children, 3 boys and a girl, i am the third born and we lost our second born last year to Cancer, he was 30yrs old and to the worse part, my dad never showed up during his funeral until now. Life became so tough for my mum who was having sole responsibility of taking care of us, there were some occasions my mum would just bust into tears for her undeserved suffering she was going through with her children with no help.
My mum had to send our firstborn to go live with one of my uncle who was into petty business in order to ease the burden a bit from her. Our firstborn only had a primary education since my mum had no money at that time to help him further his education prior to the time he went to live with my uncle. I had my primary and secondary education sponsored single handedly by my mum and also my younger sister which she did from selling fire woods and engaging in casual labour. My mum later got married to another man where we lived, my step dad was very loving and caring, he is a fisherman and he taught me how to fish, so we actually felt a love of a father even though he was not our real dad. He loved us and my mum though he had no money to support our schooling but we were not lacking in the area of food.
For over 15yrs of my life i didn't set my eyes on my biological dad, my dad had never bought us pants not to talk of a shirt or shoe, my dad only cares for the children of his second wife but totally abandoned us. Some Christmas, we would have no new clothes to even wear but we wouldn't complain because we knew what was at stake, so we just have to manage whatever we have. Life was really hell to us but we have been strong all the way.
I told my mum, i was going to help myself get into higher institution and to make her proud and take care of her. I also with the assistance of my late brother sponsored my younger sister to school, which she is almost rounding up soon, but now he is no more, the burden is now on me because there is no one we could look up to. All we have is our struggles and hustles and the mercies of God. I had many times ask God why he gave us such a father. But I thank God now, because we re moving forward and higher and not backward.
Though life may be like fire, though it seems like Ocean, though as high as the mountains, though as deep as the valley, though as hungry as lion, the Lord has helped us to persevere, to endure, to wait and to be patient and now the future is brighter, i can see it, so bright like the daylight.
I remember this Bible verse i love so much, it says
Isaiah 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
This great word from God always gives me joy and ease from thinking about the troubles and pains of life. My happiness was how God gave my mom the strength to move on and take care of us even when it was so difficult. All Glory to God.
Before i go on, please permit me to pour out my gratitude to the sponsors of this contest #steemitultimatechallenge, especially @dobartim whom i happened to meet some few days of my life on steemit and has influenced my life positively. Thank you sir for your good work. You can read through my testimony on my latest post here "My Hope Is Restored" courtesy of @dobartim lap top donation contest.
https://steemit.com/life/@peterecheng/my-hope-is-restored.
HOW STEEMIT CHANGED MY COMMUNICATION LIFE
We all know that life itself relies on communication, without communication there would be nothing like life because if you cannot receive information and cannot send information then that fellow is as good as dead, because i believe communication is not useful to the dead.
I found out that i cannot do well on steemit if i do not talk to people, as a matter of fact steemit is meant for blogging network, sharing ideas, information, creating awareness to people, helping people elicit their mental, moral, academic and business life by inspiring them, motivating people in all their bases of life. But here i come without any experience in blogging, how do i make it? How do i make impact? How do i contribute my own quota if i don't talk to friends and colleagues? if i don't communicate with them?
So i came to that reality of life because i have been a very shy person when it comes to asking questions, having discussions with people around me, i am just that dam guy that does not socialized a lot. But since the time i joined steemit, just barely 10days today, i have become a basket mouth when it comes to communicating about steemit and my life. And i must say steemit has actually helped me become a very good social being in, associating and communicating.
When you communicate you get to gain from people by getting your questions answered and getting some relevant information that could pass you by if you do not ask. Sometimes people would not help you even when they knew you needed their help, they would rather expect you to ask it first, why? Because by doing so it means, you really value their assistance.
Communication can be viewed in three forms, verbal, written and sign communications. All this three are all relevant in all activities on steemit. For instance, most of the people i invited to join steemit i spoke with them face to face, some i gave them a call while i sent text messages to some, all this cannot be done without communicating.
Since my life time i can't vividly point out any kind of platform that has made me so social a lot like steemit, i ask questions on whatever i do not understant from friends and i do same to anyone of them having issues on steemit in which they couldn't solve it them selfs, i make awareness to my friends neighbours, colleagues about steemit and the great advantages and some few have registered and would soon become active users by the time their accounts are approved. Communication is just the perfect key to every business and life, and it has actually boosted my confidence. And for me to succeed on steemit i have learned to communicate a lot. Many thanks to @steemit life.
MY STEEMIT FINANCIAL COMMUNICATION
This is one area i would really love to talk about. I am just one of those guys that joined steemit for many reasons which in some ways the financial aspect takes the greater percentage of those reasons.
I joined steemit miraculously because it was never in my dream i could get this kind of mouth watering opportunity. I was someone who lived his life worrying about what tomorrow would be, whether good or bad, in my case the bad side of life was more glaring in reality because when a man's hope hangs on the air where nothing could hold it from falling to the ground, its just as good as no hope at all.
I have so many burdens on my neck before the beginning of this year, and the worse part of it is the fact that there were no means to cater for this needs. My education, accommodation and other bills was on me alone since i have no one else to help, coming from a poor family of my kind, i only have the option to struggle my way to success which i know it was going to be hell along the way. I didn't get less than that, because i really went through hard times that sometimes i would turn to GOD and almost blame Him for the state of my family. But when i realize life does not matter where one starts but rather where he ends, i had to give myself that courage and keep moving on and its been helping me all through.
I am just new here on steemit, the testimonies from friends kindle my desire to join so as to change my financial status so that i could take care of my needs and assisting my family. I never have it in mind to start making money or impact as early as this time am writing because i needed to learn a lot before that. I did my best to follow up friends and great Authors and bloggers on steemit, i met one of the best @dobartim and my life was so blessed beyond expectations, i won a lap top courtesy of @dobartim donation contest, which i was considered the winner, the sum of 38.779SBD was sent to me by @dobartim and i have purchased the lap top, see pictures bellow, that is how i became bless financially on steemit, because i know that this is the best gift i could ask for at this moment which would enhance my full participation on steemit and help me develop myself while making some cash. My hope was shattered before the beginning of this year because i have no means to meet my needs neither anybody to help me but since i joined steemit, my hope is as young as a new born baby. I could feel all around me now that all is well. I can now believe and boast in myself that i can make it, i can rise and shine, all this happened all because of the unimaginable opportunity that steemit brought to me and everyone in the world.
MY STEEMIT BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
I have for long since my childhood dreamed of becoming a business person, a great entrepreneur, i am a kind of person that hates to be looking for white collar jobs because i had the dream of becoming an employer of labour.
I came from a society (country) where unemployment rate is extremely devastating. Thousands of graduates leaves school every blessed year but no job for them to do, even Civil servants in services are owed several months of salaries, most privates sectors pay peanuts as salary to their employees, the economy so poor. I realized all this things right from when i was a small boy, since then, i made up my mind to create job for myself and not just myself but to employ people and have some few that i could put under my payroll. This in reality is a huge dream, very big one, when i think about this dream i feel joy in my heart, but on that moment, the question would come, how would you do it when you have no money? For a longtime ago i didn't have answer to that question because i had no money and there was no glaring signs to show me how to raise the money. But since i joined steemit, something just keep telling me, that my dreams are accomplished and i must say with all sincerity that with steemit i can achieve all my goals.
MY STEEMIT EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION
Education is simply the acquisition of knowledge which could be related in many ways.
To acquire knowledge one must be able to communicate. My little knowledge on steemit especially the aspect of blogging is simply because i was able to communicate with people and follow friends, read people's articles. My experience here on steemit has actually arouse my reading culture, steemit gave me the opportunity to connect with lots of people all over the world.
I have been able to know about some cities, towns, countries that i never new about, especially in their way of life. I now know some tourist centers, beautiful places, historical existence of many places that i have no knowledge about. I got to know of hero's that did great things in their respective countries and towns. So, educationally steemit has given me a plus advantage.
Someone like me that has no money to travel to other parts of the world, has the opportunity to know about those places just in my bedroom. So i am very happy to be part of this community. And am so proud of their initiative and how everybody is treated equally, i love their idea of helping people out of poverty. I have not seen such a humanitarian network. I wish steemit great success all through.
Lastly, may i say a big thank you to @dobartim and his supporting crew for organizing this awesome contest. Thank you very much and more power to your elbow. Finally, i would say my life in steemit for less than 2weeks now, is quite a memorable one. I can never forget it. I look forward to contributing positively in peoples life, bringing as many people as possible to steemit, i look forward to organizing seminars and get people enlightened and help spread steemit everywhere in the world. Thank you for reading through. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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