This Middle-class Life I'm Living!

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Claudia


The bottom edge of middle-class is a very bad spot to be.



You might have a few good times, a few bad times but definitely too many slow times. 

Nothing here moves swiftly.

Working your way to the upper middle-class is a humongous task. You might never even get there because maintaining your lower middle-class position is enough to keep you busy for the rest of your life. 

A tiny slip and you find yourself at the bottom of the pyramid. 

This middleclass life i'm living...Life at the spot is not fun.

Life wey no get balance!

One moment you're groovy, the next moment you're gloomy. You can't chill in peace, your bills be hunting you like witches.

You know people but don't have that kinda access, you go places you can't afford on your own, you're mostly floating. At least you can be feeling cool with yourself but its all cosmetics.

Though you look good enough to create that middle-class perceived type of comfort, you're never comfortable enough to live through each day without stress. 

From paycheck to paycheck. Your reality is that you're always broke.

Always on red alert.

Struggling with everything. To pay rent, fees, fix car, shop blablabla...everything na struggle but you must hustle o!

You meet up but like almost late. 

You never have just enough let alone extra. 

I find myself here!

Credit alert makes me depressed rather than happy because the funds hardly cover for my bills. So, I have to borrow to make up. Pay up by the next round of income, pay more bills and yea as usual, end up broke.

'But you're better than those at the bottom'.
Oh yea?

How far am I from the bottom? Just a paycheck away.

This is not me being ungrateful but honestly, life here is a constant struggle and worse, if you have kids and you desire to push upward. 

The fractions are largely improper, you'll only survive with a vision, through doggedness, faith in God and extra extra work.

Many times, I've bent so low, come too close to the bottom yet find me holding onto the struggle. 

I can't afford to give up naa.

I am just a struggling middleclass woman who believes that "if you have faith you can move mountain".

That faith, is what drives me to live the life.

To have fun with everything and enjoy every moment because "this life, I can't kill myself".

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