Growing up poor appreciation thread....

[Broke Wave]

I grew up in the projects but I wasn't hella poor till my pops left when I was like 13

From then on a nikka went hungry at school every day

I survived off occassional cereal and one meal a day for literally years.

No back to school clothes

Roaches, bedbugs, mice

Terrible neighborhood

Couldnt even focus at school cuz I was hungry especially high school

Didnt even have bus fare


Funny how things change though

 

[Theraflu]

@BlackManLiveFromLondon your story sounds like mine

before we got our mortgage in Enfield our first ever council house was in Homerton in Hackney...

mateeeeeeeeee

 

[Magic 8 Ball]

We didn't even have indoor plumbing. No private bathroom or shower in the house. Had to use a public one down stairs. Share a kitchen with neighbors.

 

[Blackking]

you really poor as a kid when you don't even know you're in poverty


you just think that's how people live

until you get to first grade and start to hear about the 1st world

Go home looking at you moms like

Start watching TV, other than pbs, by the 4th grade n seeing the world and real homes and your brothers and you are just like ..........

 

[Theraflu]

Thats a complete separate set of circumstances,im telling you what the OP meant when he made this thread...Growing up poor can prepare for things in this world that growing up rich cant...Why you think all these rich folks commit that...

These people don't get what this thread is about. Noone is glamourising poverty, but as someone who works in Investment banking now with people who have never suffered or failed in their life I am SHOCKED by how much grit they lack.

One of my coworkers was suicidal and crying two weeks ago because he didn't get a bonus and because he had been underperforming... I was like 'just go harder!' but in his mind it's like he couldn't process it. I've met so many priviledged kids who at the slighest thing they crumble.

My life story is like @Emperor_ReinScarf in that I have gone through and seen so much traumatic events so something like a work bonus is but some people have never had that.

I know I can survive ANYTHING.

 

[Theraflu]

you really poor as a kid when you don't even know you're in poverty


you just think that's how people live

until you get to first grade and start to hear about the 1st world

Go home looking at you moms like

Nah, when I was in Africa I knew i was was poor

 

[Tommy Knocks]

I aint appreciating that shyt, I will never go back to that lifestyle again.

 

[Blackking]

Nah, when I was in Africa I knew i was was poor

well, in my project every kid was the same. me n my bro and cousins had holes in our shirts, so did every one else. Not until i was like 6 did I start to realize.

i think it's perspective and personality too....... I feel i had a great childhood.
my brother likes to act like he grew up in hell. nikka 20 something still bytchin I don't get people like that. Like missing some meals ever killed a nikka.

 

[Theraflu]

well, in my project every kid was the same. me n my bro and cousins had holes in our shirts, so did every one else. Not until i was like 6 did I start to realize.

i think it's perspective and personality too....... I feel i had a great childhood.
my brother likes to act like he grew up in hell. nikka 20 something still bytchin I don't get people like that. Like missing some meals ever killed a nikka.

Most of my friends who grew up poor look back on their childhood more fundly than the rich ones.

They had noone to impress, everyone was the same.

When we moved to London I was fine, African poor is POOR like not having a toilet and washing your school uniform with your hands and bathing outside.

That's what I mean.

When we first moved to UK that was okay tbh

 

[MikelArteta]

These people don't get what this thread is about. Noone is glamourising poverty, but as someone who works in Investment banking now with people who have never suffered or failed in their life I am SHOCKED by how much grit they lack.

One of my coworkers was suicidal and crying two weeks ago because he didn't get a bonus and because he had been underperforming... I was like 'just go harder!' but in his mind it's like he couldn't process it. I've met so many priviledged kids who at the slighest thing they crumble.

My life story is like @Emperor_ReinScarf in that I have gone through and seen so much traumatic events so something like a work bonus is but some people have never had that.

I know I can survive ANYTHING.

 

[MikelArteta]

I grew up in the projects but I wasn't hella poor till my pops left when I was like 13

From then on a nikka went hungry at school every day

I survived off occassional cereal and one meal a day for literally years.

No back to school clothes

Roaches, bedbugs, mice

Terrible neighborhood

Couldnt even focus at school cuz I was hungry especially high school

Didnt even have bus fare


Funny how things change though

 

[Lord Brehlinger]

What kind of lazy ass bums did some of you (who grew up in the developed world ) have for parents?

My grandma became a professor during the 1960s in the segregated south and bum nikkas still use all kinds of excuses for why they ain't shyt.

 

[Miggs]

These people don't get what this thread is about. Noone is glamourising poverty, but as someone who works in Investment banking now with people who have never suffered or failed in their life I am SHOCKED by how much grit they lack.

One of my coworkers was suicidal and crying two weeks ago because he didn't get a bonus and because he had been underperforming... I was like 'just go harder!' but in his mind it's like he couldn't process it. I've met so many priviledged kids who at the slighest thing they crumble.

My life story is like @Emperor_ReinScarf in that I have gone through and seen so much traumatic events so something like a work bonus is but some people have never had that.

I know I can survive ANYTHING.

YEa in the building i work at now all these rich spoon fed fakkits always moan and cry over the smallest things in life,when you grew up in that life you arent prepared to handle whats below should life take you there,thats why these types of people jump off buildings when the car insurance defaults for the first time....YET poor people BEEN thru the struggles,thats all they know so they are prepared for that life and motivated to make a better life for themselves...

Fck these dumbasses in here that dont get it

 

[Exiled Martian]

From the dusty streets of rural East Africa to the suburbs of first world Great Britain

I remember those simple ass days back home when climbing trees for fruits & eating fried peanuts, coconuts (Kitalis for those of you Swahili inclined) & cassava with your boys by the beach side was the epitome is a good day out!

Playing footy (soccer) bare foot using a ball made solely out of plastic bags & rubbers bands on a derelict construction site for hours was the shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttt

I remember my boy down the road (Shout to Hamisi) who had the sickest pigeon coop (he breeded exotic pidgeons & sold them ) & sold Gold fishes as well...ain't heard from him in a while

Shout out to them somali bruddahs in the hood discreetly gathering in massive groups in secret locations to run a big boy session chewing Mirungi (Khat) & Big G (bubblegum) getting high watching time go by!

Also remember them make shift sling shots we use to use to shoot down crows & high top fruits in the trees down at the park.

Man I can honestly say that my childhood was one of Kind...last of a DYING BREED type shyte & and its funny how BEING POOR or rather not well off & simple I made some of most nostalgic memories to cherish as I grow