Houses are what we call homes, they shelter us and
our loved ones. It may not be a mansion, duplex, or bungalow, but a
tiny house, or a small village hut, no matter how ugly, or small it is, it is
still a home, and homes are sweet no matter what.
As a tenant working very hard every single day to
put food on your table, to assist yourself, and your family, which could mean
your spouse, parents, siblings if you have one, and loved ones as well.
You can’t work forever on one particular job you can be fired or retired. The same thing goes
for your rent. When you lose your job and you do not get another job any sooner
what do you do about your rent?
We all know that Lagos landlords don’t care about
your excuses all they want is their rent. At least they were smart enough to
save Kobos and Narias to buy land and build the house you called a rubbish
house whenever he yelled at you for his rent.
Funny enough some of these landlords are
illiterate, they are not really better than you, but when you were busy showing
off your cars which is a liability, and designer clothes which fade as time passes
they invested it.
“Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems
from bleeding into everyone else's.”
Many worked hard all their life and ended up in the
street stranded, with no savings and no house to their name, they became a joke. You could have savings quite all right, but without a purpose, you will blow that money away in the blink of an eye one day.
Some were advised before their pitfall about building a house they replied
“There is still time, they never took it seriously
Some
said, “I won’t
build, that's stress; I will buy a building when I secure a big contract”.
So they waste time hoping and wishing until
reality comes through.
If you are single, you don’t have to wait until you
get married before you start thinking of having your own house. It’s not necessarily
you work in an oil company or an airport before you can save. As a bike man,
school teacher, student, or tomato seller start saving that meager income of
yours. The Good Book says that “he that
is faithful with little more shall be added”. God is interested in what you
do with the few in your hands.
Draw a budget to meet your target, some
people’s houses are in their belly reduce unnecessary spending, on food, clothes, and hair, if a relationship will cost you put it on hold. To be in a relationship
requires money. Learn to lockdown your savings to avoid temptation, if you have trouble saving money click here
It’s your choice, ask yourself what is my priority? I leave you to
think about this quote by ― Gaston Bachelard, The
Poetics of Space.
“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the
house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
Good luck.
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