The struggle is real

While sitting around waiting to start my job, I realized that these past few years, we all go through something tragic in our lives whether its something physical or emotional, we find ways to conquer them and learn to get by when things were tough. Just recently, since I have been back from Japan, being broke sucks especially living in a city. I become so tempted to go and buy things, but know I can't since there is no money availiable meaning there's no money to go out too. Despite the issues, I go out and still have a good time riding my bike around the city, but let me list you a couple of things that I had to go through these past years to get by:

• In the 7th grade, I grew my love for the Sims 2, but lacking funds, the only way for me to buy these games were with my lunch money. I spent months saving the small $1.50 lunch money I had along with receiving gift cards here and there from friendly church members, and stealing money from time to time, I was able to buy not only the Base game, but also all of the expansion packs by the end of my 7th grade year. Unfortunately, my computer crashes after the summer of 7th grade and I was unable to play the game again. Karma is a bitch. 
• By my 11th grade year, I became bored of taking the train to school and began to take the bus. Although longer wait time, I did not mind. But also during this time, I lost my wallet meaning the student pass I had in there was gone for the month. Fortunately, I was able to obtain a new pass and had to take the bus to all of my locations. As of why? Well the bus is cheaper than the train and as long as you take the bus within. A two hour range, your transfer to one bus to another for free. The situation was indeed a struggle yet, I learned more about the bus system and what routes I can take from where which came along in the future. 
• Now that my main transportation is a bike, no longer need to worry about money to take a train, but sometimes your friends want to go places where a bike is unreachable. To save money, I ride my bike to the farthest station I can ride then take the metro to the unreachable stop. May seem like a ton of work, but with a little bit of planning and timing, it can be done.
• Ran out of soap and stopped by the travel section in Walmart to buy my soap. #thestruggleisreal
• Most recently, my negative balance on my metro card and not having enough money to put on the card to take out for my trip. #oops. Called my sister to travel to metro stop to put money on the card.

These are only a few of the struggles I had to go through, but sometimes you have to cut corners to make ends meet.