All you stupid liars will go to hell…
Suddenly ‘settle for less’ is not about finances ?
So the phrase “It’s better to cry in benz” is about what then ?
The delusion in all of you just somehow makes y’all think you’re ‘up’.. That’s why you call almost every Man ‘less’(even when they’re glaring doing better than you in all areas of life)
Talmbou “Nobody settle for less pass 9ja babes”
Mfs mistake “One time access to rich Men” as “Being UP”
Why are you not with those Men then ?
Why are you not married to those rich Men you’ve opened legs for.. ehn.. Sandra.. talk to me!
That’s why a bus driver will bring a Woman from the village where she pounds akpu from morning till night, to lagos… She comes, sees Lagos life, see how people’s wives are driving cars and suddenly just tell herself she ‘settled for less’…
Forgetting her reality is akpu-personified.. Forgetting a bus driver is in real time an ‘upgrade’ to her existence.
It’s why when they want to raise arguments that ‘Women marry poor Men’, they’ll tell you Bike Men/Brick Layers/Carpenters have wives.
Go and check their wives.. It’s majorly dem iya alagbo, those that hawk fried meat(tinko), those selling fried corn by the road-side, those uneducated Women that came directly from village
So you want to tell me those same Women didn’t still marry up ?
They settled for less coz their Men are not glam-rich ?
Let a female Banker marry a Rewire or a Vulcanizer then you have a valid point to make about Women marrying poor Men
You clowns get on the internet and just act like it’s not humans that live in the real world that are behind the keypads
God will take all of you for the culture!!!
It has to be that there’s a curse on a black people really.
How can we be losing on every sides as a people. You lose out on economic prosperity, still lose out on love. And it’s rather funny because how are we intentionally losing out on love, the same love that’s supposed to act as a “shock-absorber” for the poor state of our communities.
You live in the world’s capital of poverty yet subject yourself to unrealistic love standards. The women deprive themselves of love while hoping to bag an odogwu, the guys think they do not deserve love till they breakfree from Sapa? They both hold on to this negative mindset only for them to fail woefully at both being rich and having love in the long run.
The ones from poor homes who have experienced first hand from their parents and families that love is possible without “gifting in the talking stage” are the ones who should be able to love even some more because what more do you really have to give really? You don’t have money still you don’t have love and consideration in your heart?
The rich ones are also scared that their wealth can dwindle by associating with the poor ones so they are classist in their love.
I hope they dispel this popular unhealthy narrative of love they are clinging to before it’s too late.
Being a Medical Doctor and seeing a lot of patients everyday, exposes you to a lot, enough to know that THIS is very true and a VERY COMMON occurrence.
I've said this many times: if you take your wife abroad from Nigeria, make sure she avoids anything related to healthcare if you value your marriage. This is why me and my bro refused to marry Naija women.
The women in the healthcare department are the ones corrupting the new ones. My friend, who refused to live with her husband after he bought a house in New York and still cheated, was also a nurse.
I'm glad this is coming from a woman. I don't think Nigerian men know how ungrateful Nigerian women can be. Abroad, it's even worse than in Nigeria because the man has to work three jobs and take out loans, and the women will still leave you with all the debt.
Leave your woman in Nigeria, take care of her from there, or bring her here and face the consequences. Pick your poison. If she doesn't have any kids, please let her move on. Find a woman over here.
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If you were not born into wealth,
If you never inherited huge money,
If you never won millions from a lottery,
If you are not into entertainment,
If you are not into high paying tech,
If you are not an elite sportsperson,
If your parents are not rich and you are from an average/struggling family in Nigeria before you travelled abroad;
Chasing generational wealth as a primary priority being a first-generation immigrant from Nigeria, whose family back home is not wealthy, is very unrealistic.
Let me explain.
If you left Nigeria as the first person in your family to escape that economic hellhole, what we call japa, we are actually economic refugees.
You will most likely be working in an average salary job that won’t pay too much money after tax deductions. You will have many monthly bills to pay (rent, light/energy, WiFi, internet, phone, water, council, transport/car loan, food, etc); and many times, you may also have school fees debt to repay, you may have your parents to support and your siblings to fund.
So if what I just described is your reality, and it is infact the reality for many of us immigrants, please how is generational wealth your primary priority? How can it be?
The average person in the uk working full time will make £1,500-£2,500 monthly after tax. By the time you pay all the bills I listed above and try to send something home, again I ask you, where is this fantasy of “generational wealth” going to come from?
Don’t get me wrong:
It’s okay to want generational wealth for your children and your children’s children after them. But what I am saying is that, you may not be the wealthy one now, but you can kickstart the process that two or three generations down the line, will be wealthy. But don’t get obsessed trying to be wealthy and feel like a failure when you don’t.
Find consolation in knowing you have made a decision that puts your children in a far better starting point in life than your own parents did for you.
Let me tell you a story:
There was an Indian man who migrated from Pakistan to Kenya in 1937. He had a son who migrated to the uk, studied medicine, met and married an Indian woman pharmacist in uk who also migrated to uk from Tanzania.
His son, the doctor in uk, made huge sacrifices to send his own son (the man’s grandson) to oxford university. The grandson graduated first class.
Many years down the line, in 2022, that Indian man’s grandson became the British first ever Asian prime minister. This is the true life story of the last uk prime minister Rishi Sunak.
Nobody knows his father or his grandfather. But it was their hard-work, sacrifices, courage to always seek a better life even if it meant making the tough choice to travel to a new country; this is what eventually resulted in the generational success that Rishi Sunak is today.
I think a lot of us Nigerians tend to worry about the wrong thing at the wrong time.
Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. The idea of “building wealth” from a place of average earnings is an unrealistic notion that will only cause personal disappointment and innate resentment at oneself- even though you are absolutely doing well for yourself.
The obsession of comparison with others - who you don’t know what families they are from and what work they actually do- can make you lose sight of how far you have come in your own journey and how much you have accomplished in your own story.
Your journey. Your story. Your success.
This is what matters. This is what is important. Not what someone else, or anybody else, thinks about it.
You know yourself. You know your journey. You know your story. Be proud of how far you’ve come.
Don’t ever allow anybody make you feel like a nobody in your own story, a story where you have successfully made yourself something out of almost nothing.
Remember:
Life is in phases and in stages.
And as long as your today is better than your yesterday, you are still in the game, you can still win and your story is not over yet.
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If there’s anything I’ve learnt from living in uk for almost 10years now, it is a simple but brutally painful truth.
And that truth is that if you were born in Nigeria and also lived in Nigeria from birth up to the age of 35years old, your age-mates who are in a developed country, are on average, already ahead of you in life by about 10-15years.
What they easily achieved at 25years old,
You may struggle to reach it by 40years old.
Just by being born in a third-world underdeveloped country and spending the most fruitful part of your youthful years in a backward country can seriously limit you in life and put you 10years behind your peers in a working and developed country.
I’ve seen this personally.
And because I have, it brings me to tears. This is why I’m always pushing and pushing that whatever we can do to fix Nigeria, please we have to do it.
There are talents all over the world.
There are brilliant people all over the world. But there are no equal opportunities all over the world.
The young 20year old Australian girl working in tech sales making 90,000 US dollars a year is NOT more intelligent than the 20year old Nigerian girl in Ikeja who is still struggling to sell Gala in traffic jam.
The only difference is:
One of them is in a working country with endless opportunities for its young people while the other one is in a country that has psychopath leaders whose daily fantasies is to strangle the youth and kill their dreams.
I say all of that to say:
Talent and brilliance is all over the world, from Calabar to California, from Owerri to Osaka, from Kano to Canada; however opportunities are not the same everywhere.
If we don’t work to fix Nigeria urgently,
Nigeria will eventually destroy all our lives.