Back in the day, I had a friend from Liberia.
Her parents were upper-middle-class and lived in Monrovia.
She said they woke one day to find rebels at the doorstep of Monrovia, and there was a mad dash to the airport. She said a country had sent planes to evacuate its citizens from Liberia, but the Liberians were buying the seats on those planes to escape.
Her parents could only afford to send her; she never saw them again.
I asked, “This war didn't start in one day; why didn't you leave earlier?”
She said, “We simply heard about an attack here and there and never assumed it would come to Monrovia.”
When you feel like it is hard or too difficult...
Remind yourself that you are probably asking for more than is required.
Find a price that seems so obvious to reach for, and aim for it.
If you can't locate or determine that, sit still.
This will correct 80% of your troubles.
My cousin used to unplug my game console whenever he got mad at losing.
Every. Single. Time.
One day I warned him that if he unplugged it again I was going to hide his bike.
He laughed and unplugged it while maintaining eye contact like a supervillain.
So I dragged his bike into the neighbor’s garage and went about my day.
Three hours later this man was outside sweating, accusing everyone in the family of theft, preparing a full detective investigation.
Finally my grandma asked me if I knew where the bike was.
I said “Yeah.”....
In 2012/13, the Political son of a former governor from one of Nigeria's poorest states became governor of the same state.
The former Governor then decided to sell off his house there.
The Political son bought it for N450 million Naira with states funds .
Next, the political son awarded the former governor d contract to renovate the house for 400 million Naira.
After renovations were done, the political son gave the house back to the former Governor (his boss) as a gift, honoring him as an elder of the state.
This illustrates the kind of leaders Nigeria has had.
Both men are now former governors, swimming in ill gotten money.
Toddlers holed up in a forest for over a week now, probably shivering & drinking river-water beside their violently murdered teacher and he has hope of reelection.