Motivation from poverty
Earlier today I was having a chat with a friend of mine on discord and we basically were talking about hard work and I remember telling him that everytime I think about taking a break just because I feel too lazy to work, I think about poverty and how much I really do not want to end up as one of those many beggars out in the streets and how that always motivates me to want to keep on working. You may say that is me thinking too far but I've seen this people try to survive and everyday I pray I never end up like them.
My mom used to do this thing where she cooks at home and take the food to the street beggars to feed them. I remember she always used to ask me to go with her but I've always been a shy lad and giving food to people on the open street was something I never saw myself doing, not because I was a greedy guy who didn't like helping people but because everyone around tend to watch you as you give these guys food and a lot of embarrassing things happen during these times, like you dragging the bag of food with the beggars just because they can't wait their turn, and we all know all of that is the last thing a shy kid wants to be seen on the street doing.
Well one day, she (my mom) had forced me to go with her because according to her, the work was too much for just her to do and she needed someone to help guard the food while she pass it around. I had no idea that she meant the word "guard" literally until we got there. It felt like a royal rumble match, every one of these guys were trying to dip their hands into the bag to take some food for themselves. I had to man up and really be on guard because if they all took the food that way, then it surely wouldn't go round.
I remember watching my mom that day as she walked around passing the food and the street beggars all stretching out their hands, men, women and even kids. The whole scene before me made me say a silent prayer without me even knowing it. I had prayed to God to never let me end up in the street like this and I remember after we got home that day, I had picked up my phone and the first thing I had searched on the Internet was how to make money online because I was too young to go get a job in the real word then.
So yeah, when next I tell you that I get my motivation to work hard from poverty, think of this post.
I also have that kind of experience but I never thought like you. I felt better to see the happiness on the face of the beggars. I just wish to make me capable to help many people. I hope someday I will do something huge for them 🙂. It's my motivation.
Of course there's that happiness on all of that faces, I'm not disputing that. I guess that day was my first time of getting that close to them and seeing things for myself so the whole experience was overwhelming for me and instead of seeing the smiles on their faces, I saw the bad living condition they all were in.
Poverty is scary. Very scary. When I see the plight of these beggars, I make a similar prayer. May God bless your mum for providing succor to them.
Amen.