Greetings!
One of the principles of life is risk taking and there's no way we humans would stop taking risk as it's become part and part of us as humans.
As humans, for us to come to being has to do with the risk taken by our parents, especially our mother who took us in and labor vehemently at the theater to bring us forth into existence.
Aside from this, our daily activities are full of risk, even our going out and coming in plus the food we eat is full of risk taking and to cut the long story short, we live in risk everyday which is to tell us that this life is all about risk and risk taking.
Having talked and dwells much on risk taking, I would like to delve into the topic of the prompt which is primarily on, “one big risk.”
Before I proceed, I would like to tell us that every move last year was full of risk. In fact, that last year for me as it's by the mercy of God that I was not consumed.
Although I took so many risks last year, there's one that I would never forget in a haste and that's one of my investments in a ponzi scheme.
It's a friend that came to me one Monday evening to tell me about an investment opportunity going on in my country.
When I heard about this investment, I was happy and this is because I so much like investing in business and it's always been my own way of life and also a way to survive for me.
However, after this my friend had told me about the business, I asked him about the genuineness of the investment in which he told me that the business is a genuine one that's approved by the government.
After he had told me this, I threw my weight into the business by investing all that I laboured for into the investment and at first it's really going on well as we are really making it big in the investment, in fact, through the business, I was able to achieve things I wouldn't have gone for in the first place.
However, after we had been cashing out on our investments, the unexpected happened and it first started that our payments were being delayed a little bit. It's when I realized this that I started to question the authenticity of the business investment.
After a few weeks that this has been ongoing, the entire investment crashed and people were lamenting on what could be the cause of the crash. It's after the crash of the business that I got to know that it's a ponzi scheme business.
I called Femi, the friend of mine that introduced me to the business to confirm the crash of the business and he told me it's true that his money has been entrapped into the scheme. It's so painful as my money too was entrapped into the scheme, but one thing is that I thank God I was able to recover my capital from the scheme and what I lost to the scheme was only part of what I made from there.
However, looking at this year 2026, I don't think I would take such a risk in the year as I would not want to take a risk that would drag me back to square one. Although life is about risk taking, I would like to take a calculated one for that matter.
This is my entry to week 198, Edition 03 of the weekly Featured contest in the Hive Learners community.
Thanks for reading.
Picture is mine.