When the system is fighting against you from all angles.

Hello, everyone.

I welcome you to my blog. I saw a comfy video on X, and in the video the father of the child was asked what he wants his daughter to become in the future, and he said, "That is for the country to decide, because the country fights against you and your every dream. Even he himself planned to be a pilot but ended up as a taxi driver". It was funny, but it is the reality that we all have to deal with. Trust me, we all had different dreams, but because the system did not support us, that dream was taken away from us, and it stayed a dream. Some of us live in countries where the system fights us from all angles. It is very difficult to actually escape the system having its effect on you as long as you are within the country and not born with a silver spoon.

Some people are lucky to be in countries where the system has specific angles from which it fights them. People might say I call that being lucky, but they will only understand better if they have an experience with what is currently going on in my country. Our educational system is a mess, and the healthcare system is a bigger mess. None of the systems actually finds a way to empower us; instead, it always finds a way to hold us back if we let it. There are many people who don't want to visit our hospitals because of the experience they had when they last visited, and since it was not a pleasant experience, they try to avoid it until they no longer can, while whatever illness that they suffer from is eating them up from within.

Our educational system is a mess, like I said earlier, a country where a four-year course is studied for six years and a five-year course becomes six years not because the students had issues but because of how messed up the educational system is. It is always from one strike to another, from one reason to shut down schools and academic activities to another, while delaying students and causing them to spend more than the required time in school. I strongly doubt if any Nigerian student entered into the university and graduated at the stipulated time, like I doubt if there is anyone out there because of how messed up the educational system is.

I will be using myself and colleagues as an example. We gained admission in 2019 to graduate in February 2024, just like it is stated on our admission letter and identity card issued by the school. Guess who is still in school in the second quarter of 2025? Yeah, me. So I feel like the educational system of my country has held me back for so long, hindering me from doing a lot of things like I intended to or planned to before gaining admission into college.

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