Is this life?

Hello People,

Been a while since i was here.
well, that's because living in this country these days has become like a very terrible reality show which almost every one finds themselves itching to get out of.

You wake up in the morning drenched in sweat from the light-less night, drag yourself out of bed, get ready and head off to work, endure horrible Lagos traffic for hours, get to the office and break your back off working throughout, endure demanding clients, try to keep your boss off your back, fend off complaining co-workers, leave the office late, endure part 2 of the traffic series , get home to darkness and complete the whole cycle by sleeping off without power. Is this life?

You listen to the radio on the way back from work and you hear serially depressing news about how on daily basis, foreign currencies are taking almighty dumps on our Naira, endlessly stretched out queues of cars waiting to buy fuel remind you that Suzie's fuel gauge is hovering just above "E". There are beggars everywhere; on the sidewalks, in traffic, lumbering with their child guides alongside your vehicle. Young boys with plastic bottles containing foamy water rush up unsolicited to your vehicle, squeezing the bottles on your windscreen looking to wash in hopes of you blessing their hustle, young beggar girls running beside your cars peering at you and singing in bad, hausa-tinged pidgin asking for whatever you can give them.

Shit gets real when you sight grown ass women defying all maternal logic and carrying babies,in most cases badly dressed twins, under the blazing sun or in rain to casually stroll beside cars in traffic soliciting, depending on the mercy or kind heartedness of others to give them scraps.

If a single man like me is complaining, imagine what the married folks must be feeling right now. You get home after a long hard day, there's no power, the weather is crazy hot, the kids are crying in discomfort, no fuel to power up the generator, inverter is dead and wife is totally frustrated. Is this life?

 Salary is paid at the end of the month, and instead of elation when you get that alert, you feel a despair at the fact that you're actually already in deficit and the incoming alert will only serve to sort out some of the debts you've already incurred during the course of the past month.

You think of all the things you long to do and get downcast when you realize that, with the current economic reality, you are seriously n a very long thing!!!

Honestly, at this point in time for our country, i really have to ask: what did we ever do to these criminals who have been ruling this country for years and are still in power right now?
Its become a weekly occurrence to hear of one "big man" whom EFCC has arrested for stealing scandalous sums of money in the recent past. Scandalous as in Billions and Billions of Naira!!!!!!

Meanwhile, virtually everyone of us, normal folk are struggling to make ends meet, living from hand to mouth while trying to survive.

It's enough to give you a depression induced headache!. I ask again: Is this life???