Some people are born with a golden spoon in their mouth. From birth, they have everything. Rich parents, big house, good food, fine clothes, best schools, and money to spend without worry. Life is sweet for them. They do not know what suffering means.
But life is not always straight. Sometimes, the golden spoon falls from the mouth.
A family can be rich today and poor tomorrow. The father can lose his job. The business can collapse. The parents can die. Sickness can take all the money. One bad problem can change everything.
That is what it means to be born with a golden spoon but later lose it. It is very painful. Because you have tasted good life before. You know how it feels to eat three times a day, to wear new clothes, to go to a good school. Then suddenly, everything is gone. You now have to manage. You now have to eat once a day. You now have to wear old clothes. You now have to walk where you used to enter car.
Many people in this situation become depressed. They keep thinking about the past. They keep saying, "When my father was alive, we had everything." They cannot move forward because they are stuck in the past.
But losing the golden spoon is not the end of life. It can be a new beginning. When you lose everything, you learn who your real friends are. You learn how to work hard. You learn how to respect small money. You learn how to stand on your own.
The child who was born rich but later became poor has two choices. One, to cry every day and blame life. Two, to stand up, work hard, and build his own golden spoon again. The second choice is better.
Many great men today were once rich and lost everything, but they did not give up. They started from zero and became rich again, this time with their own hands. That kind of wealth is sweeter because you worked for it.
So, if you were born with a golden spoon but later lost it, do not be ashamed. Do not give up. Your past does not define your future. You can rise again. You can build a new life. You can even become stronger than before.
Life did not take your golden spoon to punish you. Life took it to teach you how to make your own spoon.
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Written by J LOVE- port Harcourt
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