there is something deeply unsettling about a society that keeps telling people to be more resilient while making the conditions of ordinary life progressively harder to withstand.
You wake up to boil water. Your prepaid meter has finished. You switch to gas, only for the gas to finish halfway through.
You abandon the water, dress up and enter keke. The man tells you the price, and you negotiate it down by ₦100. You enter, only for the keke to tear your shirts.
You get to work, do your 9–5, and spend half the day wondering how the salary they pay you will ever make you a millionaire.
You return home, load ₦1,000 prepaid, and the meter gives you 6 units. You stand there wondering, “But last time, this same ₦1,000 gave me 7 units. Wetin happen?”
You manage to eat the leftover eba and soup from yesterday, lie down on your bed and start pressing your phone.
Suddenly, the phone slips from your hand, falls to the floor and the screen cracks.
You just stare at it.
No tears. No anger. Nothing.
You simply start laughing.
See you = see madness.
You don’t solve poverty by teaching everyone to become millionaires. You solve poverty by building an economy where ordinary work can produce a decent life.
Cristiano Ronaldo was brilliant today tbh, you could remove the goal and he’d still have a decent performance.
He blessed Joao Felix with a clean chance but he missed, he gave Sadio Mane a sweet pass he also missed.
Thank you for adding that goal Cristiano, we needed it. 980 goals and counting, we’ll get there 🐐❤️🥰