Life irony and struggles

Recently, I haven’t been blogging as I used to in the past. It is not actually because I was lazy or because the price of Hive is almost at the bottom, but because of the situations life has thrown me into.
There is a saying in my locality that goes thus: “Eniyan ko ki wa l’aye ki tie ma ba,” which means that there is no way you can be in this world without having one or two challenges to deal with. It is just nature; the only difference is that we face life’s difficulties differently. What happens to person A may not be different from what happens to person B. Life is so transient and ephemeral that we sometimes forget to live well.
A lot of things are happening around me at the same time. There is also a saying that suggests that whenever we are about to face crises that will affect us personally, we always pray against them. We pray not to fall into troubled times, and that trouble should not find its way into our homes. But we often forget to include people who are close to us, family and friends, whose struggles may also affect us.

I am in that stage now. A lot has been happening around me. At first, it was my brother, who became depressed as a result of not graduating on time. This caused him endless pain and eventually resulted in a mental breakdown that has been difficult to manage and contain.

While we were battling with that, I received a call from a close acquaintance, though a distant relative, seeking assistance after barely surviving a miscarriage. She needed help with hospital bills. She was literally crying, asking for any assistance I could render, and I couldn’t even tell her about my own situation. Would it have made any difference? I asked myself. It wouldn’t change anything, that’s just the truth. I simply had to tell her that I would see what I could do, even when I had not found a way out of my own predicament.
It is just what it is. We live in a way where we fight for everything, only to leave everything behind one day. Is that not the irony of life?

Life will humble you, no matter how wise you think you are. No one is getting out of this life alive. We will all breathe our last breath one day, and no one can save us from that reality. It is the good deeds we have done that will speak for us in the end.

There is also a popular saying with a biblical analogy that supports it: we will all have to give an account of what we have done on earth on Judgment Day. Such is life. We live to die, and perhaps die to truly live.
That is why, at times, when I see people committing all sorts of evil, I marvel. What do they intend to gain from it? In this part of the world, it is even worse. Many struggle to survive on very little, while a few take it all and live extravagantly.

As some Nigerian musicians say, some people have many empty houses, while others do not even have a place to call home. Many people also look to the sky, hoping for a change in their situation.