Flavia Tumusiime continues to share inspiring stories from her life and career in the “30 days of Flavia Tumusiime” series. On day 6, she posted:
“When I left Teens Club, I was exposed to a growing celebrity culture. There were cliques and all and who was hanging with who. I was excited I wont lie, I enjoyed hanging with all the famous musicians that people saw as untouchable and it got to my head. I started to want to be like them…well not the singing part lol. I wanted to dress like them, live lavish and just fit in.
A friend of mine, a local female artist had a very trendy hairstyle and I told her to recommend the salon, I got there and was treated like a star. After my hair was done, they gave me a bill fitting of a star…lol I took a double look but I paid and it took most of my cash in my bag to sort that bill…all for hair that I couldn’t keep after a week because celebs don’t do that. Anyway after that, the pressure was on, I would spend every coin I made just to look like or copy a certain friend and what I thought was cool.
Then I woke up and realised I had nothing to my name except the cool shoes and bags. So I started to save…my first meaningful salary was 450,000.
I started to knock on doors to give me any gigs or work to supplement my income since I was paying my own tuition at university. I made it work, with my salary and side work.Obviously things have changed today and I can afford a certain life but even then…more money more problems.
Here is my word to you, its not and will not get easy in the battle to keep up appearances, but at what cost? I hope the next time you make a decision, you start with what YOU think before you bother with what anyone else thinks.”
