What Do You Know About Life?

Knowing your world and life is the secret to many of us success.

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Poverty teaches lessons wealth can’t imagine. Failure teaches lessons success can’t understand. Love teaches lessons hatred can’t believe. And kindness teaches lessons cruelty can’t imitate — Annelise Lords.

Growing up in a poor developing country that is often unstable, there is much to learn about from life. Many people suffer because of a lack of knowledge of the life they are living. Many humans don’t take the time to know life and their world. Many are unaware of how they live. These actions continue the pain and agony raging in our world, increasing mental health crisis.

My country has been experiencing water woes for decades. I grew up experiencing many water lock-offs. It was always annoying to walk all over Jamaica to get water. Yes, as children, we had to walk to find water. My mother never stored water. She never planned for water lock-offs. She didn’t plan for life either.

I woke up to no water yesterday morning. Sometimes, they would tell us ahead of time to store water because they were fixing something. We got nothing.

I knew my country, life, and world. I always have water stored. I used my reserved water to cook, clean up, and wash because it didn’t return. I woke up after 2:00 AM to go to the bathroom. After…