Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 91: The phase of my life I would never like to experience again

Tough times don’t last but tough people do. So goes the popular saying. We all at one time or the other have been through tough times. Some more serious than the other. Today I am glad to be here to share some of my experiences.

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What do you understand by tough/challenging season of life?

Tough or challenging season of life is that time of life or a period in someone’s life when things didn’t seem to go as planned or when someone encounters series of difficulties or problems in life.

We all go through difficult seasons and sometimes it’s bad or sometimes it’s more challenging than the other but as long as life is concerned, we must go through life and every point in time our life we would always have something we are battling with at one point or the other.

Sometimes these difficult seasons lasts for a long time and sometimes they last for a short while but the thing about difficult or challenging season is that they are not times of enjoyment rather they are trying times and most people do not like to go through it. It’s normal not to for who likes troubles? None.

Have you ever experienced a very tough season of your life that almost broke you? If yes, share with us

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Yes, at one point or the other in my life, I have experienced tough seasons in my life but the last one was quite alot to handle. I almost gave up. I was in a serious of depression. I can write about it now because I have come out of it but it wasn’t easy period at all.

The year for me started with ease and somehow, I was enthusiastic but on the third month, things took a drastic turn around that I fell into serious depression. It started with failed expectations and then feeling of backwardness and above all lack of money to do the basic things I wanted to do for myself. It wasn’t a funny experience and I felt so bad.

I felt like my hands were tied and I didn’t know where to go to. I felt like I was in a pit and didn’t know how to come out of it. I felt so helpless and most times I couldn’t even pray. I didn’t know what to do. I was too tired to even push. I would just lie down and think about my life and cry.

I would pace my room up and down wondering why I am so broke. It was a serious matter. I could barely eat. I had food to eat but no appetite. My friend was complaining that Ai was slimming down but I didn’t know what to do. I started feeling sick. It was emotional sickness. I was always unhappy and sad.

How did you manage to scale through that phase

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I didn’t go deeply into what I went through. Somethings cannot be expressed with words. In the midst of all these tough times which lasted for about three months, I questioned so many things and even the existence of God. But in all of these, I still prayed. I was praying fervent prayers but in the midst of that very down moments, I knew that I could still talk to God and so I did.

I would always ask God to please bring me out of that state cos I didn’t know how to come out of it. I remembered crying much and always praying this same prayer. It didn’t happen at once but God heard me. I came out of depression.

If you were offered a million dollars to go through that ugly phase again, will you gladly do?

Hmmm, I got into the phase because of lack of money as a part of the cause. If I am offered a million dollars, I would go and take care of myself as the cause had become the solution. There wouldn’t be any need to pass through such kind of suffering again. I really went through a lot and I wouldn’t even want my enemy to go through such tough times.

In all I am grateful to God that I survived. I came out better and stronger. Indeed tough times don’t last but tough people do.