When Prices Rise and Hope Shrinks---living Through the Storm of Inflation

Have you ever gone to the market, mall or supermarket with your expectations high but you walked out of the door with broken heart and a loaf of bread?

Yeah! You have a d that is to show you how bad inflation has gotten us and the situations of many Nigerians, and not only us, that is how it is across the world as we raise up every blessed day. Inflation is not a new story to us again, it has become what we experience and live with daily—it holds our soul, wallets and minds so tight that we can nearly breath.

In my country, it is now pain and not just about the numbers again. A bag of rice now feels like a luxury, something that once brought joy to faces of many families, a lot of items are now luxury, not to talk of the cost of transportation that suddenly increased overnight. Now, the sick people hardly afford to buy drugs due to how expensive it has become. A lot of students are not dropouts because parents cannot afford the expensive school fees. Businesses have shut down because the electricity is bad and fuel is now like gold. Inflation has crushed a lot of dreams to be sincere due to how the prices of things have gone up.

But the most painful part of this is how the way forward and the solution has become silent.

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In my country, a lot of people are getting promoted in their work place but the salary remains the same, but the cost of survival keeps increasing. Where are lot of people now thinking twice between keeping their sick parents or paying the school fees and feeding their kids. Where a graduate now work like a jackal just to afford a one square meal. And above it all, you will still hear a lot of people saying, "you have to hustle more," as if they are doing nothing and their suffering means they are lazy.

Globally, inflation is not smiling at anyone. From Canada to US, from Togo to Spain, from Mali to UK, our economy now lies under the heavy loaf of some broken chain supply of costly policy mistakes, international wars, climate change and all. The less privilege are in the frontline of suffering. Because, on it own,but It is a silent, devastating and creeping pandemic.

And in the midst of it all, we rise.

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We struggle, we work harder, and we adapt. We pray, we have that little garden at the back of the house and we negotiate and above it all, we are resilient. We as Nigerians are resilience not because we actually want it, but the situation that makes crayfish bends needs us to be. Hope is a decision we all have daily.

What must we do rather than surviving.

I think it is time for us to join our voices together and speak up as one. Demand for transparency and accountability, a good policy to protect the easily affected ones. Give our assistance to all leaders who are after the betterment of the people. Educate eachother on finance and our plans should fuel the purpose we have.

Because even though inflation is eating deep into our economies, it is still the spirit human perseverance and endurance.

Our voices must be more louder even though prices are increasing

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Thank for reading.

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