It has been a while I showed my keyboard some love here, but I'm back with new stuff and a bit of age/maturity in my writing (at least I hope so).
A quick life update from since I've been gone:
-I got married to myself
-Moved back to Nigeria
-Fell in love with a homie
-Understood and appreciated the struggle.
For the purpose of this post, let's talk about the last point Understood and appreciated the struggle.
I went to church today and Jumoke Adenowo was the visiting preacher and she asked a series of questions about countries and the first thought associated with them e.g. Germany-efficiency, Italy-style, etc, then she came to Nigeria and the first thing people started calling out was the number one on everyone's mind CORRUPTION, but I had a different thought RESILIENCE because Nigerians have a very resilient spirit. No matter what you do to a Nigerian, we always seem to get up, dust ourselves off and try again (some real Aliyah moves right there).
And Jumoke said something very profound, you won't receive anything from a country you don't appreciate or resepect. That's the paraphrased version and it is very true; if you do not appreciate a thing with all its complexities, you can not and will not receive any value from it.
So fellow Nigerians, our country is scattered, has no electricity or good roads and a good number of our "leaders" do not have the interest of the nation at heart; however, we must realize that we can do so much by appreciating the good things about our country. Sit down somewhere, write out the good things that have happened to you since you moved back to Nigeria and if you never left, just write something down and count the blessings that you have received.
There is good in Nigeria and we will definitely add and draw value here.
Good night everyone and happy thinking!
