It's going to be like this forever

Greetings.

Yesterday being Saturday, I had a lot of work to attend to, and while I was at the peak of it, a guy from nowhere walked up to me and requested that I help him charge his power bank. I was very busy, and the place where I have my power socket is not accessible to just anyone. He was a stranger, meaning I hadn't seen him around before, so I decided to stop my work and help him by plugging the power bank in my house. After that, he left and promised to come back within an hour, which I was okay with.

Not long after he left, he came back and requested I bring the power bank for him because he wanted to use it to submit a job application on his phone(his phone was flat). It was a disturbance to me because if I got the power bank for him, I would have to leave my work to attend to him. So I had to tell him the truth that he was disturbing me, and if I should get the power bank for him, he shouldn't expect me to go back to plug it in again.

He sighed in frustration and agreed that I should get it for him. I went inside, got it for him, and he sat down in a chair while he plugged his dead phone into the power bank and got glued to it.

After a while, he hissed and said, "Are we ever going to remain like this? See the way I'm moving around looking for where to charge my phone."

I heard him, but I decided to ignore him because I wasn't ready to discuss the downside of our country. We can only talk and talk, and nothing will change.

"Ever since I came here three months ago, I haven't seen light. I struggle every day to charge my phone, and this is something Nigeria should have outgrown," he lamented, probably to get my attention, and he got it.

"Bro, the funny thing is that Nigeria is never ever going to outgrow the issue of poor electricity and corruption. It has been like this since my parents were born. It was like this when I was born. I'm now an adult, and we're still not better. No way! Nothing is ever going to change. We just have to live with the truth and continue with our lives," I said, giving him my attention and making sure to put it in a very lengthy way. We went on and on, discussing and lamenting the issues until he got tired and left.

Wande Coal earlier saw where we were heading as a country and he cried out in a song he titled, "Shey na like this?" which was essentially a lament asking if we are going to continue living like this and never meet a bright future, exactly what people call the "light at the end of the tunnel."

He called out some of the things we've been wishing would happen to us as a country, but we're not near achieving them; in fact, we are very far from them. One of the things he called out was the Naira and dollar rate.

We once believed that the price of the dollar would match that of the Naira, but no way, the current exchange rate of the dollar against the Naira is nothing to write home about. Currently, naira is deprecating everyday which has been affecting cost of living and we can't help but continue to live our lives🥲.

It's well, let me stop here🥲.

Thanks for reading.

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