Where did we get it wrong?

From Shojobi Ifeoluwa

The post was originally posted on theplaceng.com

As I sit solemnly in my chair of wood and my bottom aches due to the long hours I have spent trying to learn a thing or two from my most trusted partner and friend, my Hp laptop, I paused after a long while and as I closed my eyes from reality. My mind took me back to when I was barely a boy.

Like every other kid in this part of the world, I had dreams and aspiration. My cloud mind flashed me a picture of passenger drones flying in Dubai, one that I read in the news a few weeks ago. I quickly remembered how I wanted to be a Pilot. I wanted to see the world as I was a kid with less fright. I recollect that I had just two options then, and that was to either be a Pilot or a doctor.

It's a scary game of life you'll admit, and soon I had to let go off being a Pilot, life started getting scary, and by the time I finished secondary education, I had hated the smell of medicine, and all I had in my head was words and voices constantly speaking.

I thought I lost it, I couldn't be a doctor, neither did I ever try to fly anything apart from paper planes and kites. I couldn't even become an engineer for my dad. It dawn on me, I had become a disappointment but not necessarily a failure.

While I had these thoughts flowing through my mind, I thought about everything we were told in primaries. We are the leaders of tomorrow, ain't we!!!

A majority of us have lost it and yes we complain too much, the economy is bad, I am not fortunate to belong to the family of a wealthy antecedent, blah blah blah... and so we settle for ludicrous acts and limit ourselves in relations to the societal phenomena problems surrounding us. We have suddenly given up on our aspiration. To some extent, I will say we are right as the system was BALD by default.

Too much emphasis is laid on academic performance that we forget what we had achieved even without the knowledge of further maths or physic (ask Azikwe). The system is bald, and then I thought what can the righteous do (US)

Now I challenge you, do you think there is nothing the US can do in this case?
Do you say it is entirely lost for us as individuals and a country at large?
Guess what!!! It's a NO

WHY
Very well, I believe if you have stumbled upon this message of hope, it means that you are learned and can think for yourself. Do you still think your future is no more in your hands, of course, it is.
Does it look blur, it might, but I tell it's better than vanished.

Take a look at yourself, do you think you've come this far to be like this. I know right, you weren't that bright in school, but you manage to badge a Bachelor's degree. Are you a degree holder.

Where's is your sense of accountability.

 "Have you lost your philosophic and logical reasoning in turning things around

Have you forgotten the laws of demand and supply and give in yourself to diminishing returns

Have you lost your grammatical prowess in talking words to existence

If no... Then why you complaining when you have all the potentials in the world to turn tables and leave a print on History".

Oh, I see, you still think that hanging on to a suit and tie is the only way out or best join the leagues and legions of desperate men fending off some other people's wealth through ludicrous means.

Wake up, my dear... Greatness awaits you

I said to myself someday I will write the president speech, to me that's maybe one of the greatest feats I dream of and hope to achieve as the voices in my head is ever increasing...

What about you... Someone ones told me the hardest job a man can have is to think... Think this through

Remember Progress is the only true option for you and I...

I hope this have a meaningful meaning to you

Shojobi Solomon I.

Farmer, Writer, Blogger and Graphics Designer