{"id":915646,"date":"2022-01-12T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/my-school-mates-used-to-laugh-at-me-because-my-family-depended-on-street-vending-a-man-reveals\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:40:14","slug":"my-school-mates-used-to-laugh-at-me-because-my-family-depended-on-street-vending-a-man-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/my-school-mates-used-to-laugh-at-me-because-my-family-depended-on-street-vending-a-man-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"My school mates used to laugh at me because my family depended on street vending &#8211; A man reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>We depend on different streams of income to survive. Employment is not the only thing that helps bring food to the tale, but it takes courage and dedication to defeat hunger.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/99d24b0bab32431c93abb25761badbe3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There are people who take farming seriously because they want to make a living. Farming does not always mean that you will have to supply big supermarkets, but a dedicated person finds no shame in spending days on the streets selling what they are growing. Vegetables will always be in demand, and that is why people make a living out of them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1b632a3c007f40e9aff8768c1689d001\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As it was pointed out yesterday that we should not laugh at people who sell these products on the street, someone got angry and said that there is no living being who would laugh at those people. That person was incorrect, as a man on Twitter known as Sifiso the Family Guy revealed that he was once a victim of those who mock street vendors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/806e38da70cd44daa35fe632bcbed9fb\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sifiso says his family pushed the trolley around their community, and inside that trolley were the vegetables they were selling. The other pupils at school might have found it an inappropriate thing to do, as Sifiso reveals that they used to laugh at him. They laughed at him because his family was making their own way of living, which was completely different from theirs.<\/p>\n<p>He says they used to call him names, but he did not care about them. Instead of being discouraged, Sifiso says he was motivated to do better for himself. He says most of those people are not half the person that he is today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/09b811127f0f489998b0f73fab6af6c5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I think this teaches us a lesson that our backgrounds do not determine our destinations. Those children might have been living a happy life growing up, but the comfort zone did not allow them to do better for themselves. On the other hand, Sifiso always knew that in order to achieve something, he must stand on his ground and be a doer.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Corner-Of-Bliss (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nFamily Guy<br \/>\nSifiso<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We depend on different streams of income to survive. Employment is not the only thing that helps bring food to the tale, but it takes courage and dedication to defeat hunger. There are people who take farming seriously because they want to make a living. 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