Being broke…no one wishes to be that way but we have experienced it in some way before and although it wasn’t the greatest thing to live through, the greatest part is that we pulled through. When you take a look back at the darkest moments of your journey of life, there will be many times where you might ask yourself, “How did I make it?” That alone should be enough fight in you to keep going. If you stop now, all that you endured would have been for nothing.
People love to assume. They assume that stay at home mothers do nothing. They assume that women with degrees have high egos. They assume that men cheat with every single partner. They assume…because the thought of assumption is better to speak about than understanding the truth. And when you are broke, the assumption is that you’re a failure, you make poor finance choices, you spend too much, you don’t work hard enough, you didn’t go to school…the list goes on…
But did anyone stop to ask the question, “How can I help you?” I remember my lowest time…during the pandemic…when I literally had nothing in the bank and I wondered how I would feed my children, keep my house and still live to see the sun tomorrow…and I had no idea what to do. Everything I thought of led me to the answer of “No, I can’t do anything for you.” So my husband and I sat down and we talked. We talked and he said, “I’ve got an interview lined up…but it’s way out in the east coast. They’ve bought me a plane ticket and booked me a hotel. I’m going and if this works out, it will save us. The bonus they are giving me will be enough to get us out of everything.”
I didn’t want to but I swallowed my fear and I said, “Let’s do it.” It saved us and we started a new chapter where everything came to a shining beginning. Sometimes being “broke” will lead you to being “better.” I am not ashamed to speak of being broke because it’s a part of me, a part of my journey and a part of who I am. It reminds me to continue to fight for what I want and to do what is needed for the investment of my life.
Yes, I was once broke…but it didn’t break me.