Some decisions are just not the best

I grew up in a city very close to my village so just 45mins am from my father's compound, which meant a lot of comfort for me, I never bought any farm products in the market, things like Cassava flour known as garri, Palm oil, yam or vegetables of any type I don't even know where they sell them because just a drop less than 1hive am home and I will get fresh vegetables from the farm.

When it comes to house rent or electricity bills, I comfortably pay them without much stress because they are very affordable, unlike the city of Lagos, where I reside now.

I was enjoying this comfort until the year 2019, when marriage forced me to leave my comfort zone, a place I had enjoyed so well. Yes, the pay for secular work there was just like a tip, still, the cost of living and other side hustles made it look as if I was making millions. In fact, I remember I had a chemist shop I was managing, I had lots of private patients I was taking care of, so I had good returns at the end of every month, I was a very rich babe amongst my age mates then.

In October 2019, I relocated to Lagos. Funny enough, before coming to Lagos, I was anticipating something big, I was thinking I was coming to a bigger city where life is better, but honestly, I really miss my home town till tomorrow, I will forever regret that decision of leaving my comfort zone.

At the end of 2019, it became obvious to me that I had made a great mistake. Leaving my home town wasn't the best choice for me. Unfortunately, the marriage that brought me all the way didn't work out, so I had to start struggling for survival all alone, which has made everything more difficult.

My house rent here in Lagos is a total of both my shop rent and house rent then in the east, life here is very stressful and frustrating, no one takes things easy here everyone are just in a haste all the time, to make it worse I can't find fresh vegetables as I use to then in my home town, to enjoy a good vegetable soup here is only for the rich because it's very expensive.

Then I change my hair every two weeks because I have the money and there are good stylists but I can't even afford changing my hair that often here.

Sadly I just have to stay back because going back to my hometown will amount to starting all over again which might not be so easy for me, tho I might still decide to move back to my hometown someday because the increment in cost of living here especially house rent it's becoming something I don't think I would enjoy doing for a very long time.

I will say that we might not really understand how lovely our comfort zone is until we make a move then we will understand that we were really in our comfort zone earlier.

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