The force.

Having the thoughts about history right now is making me reminisce back to the days when I was still in my senior secondary when I found myself falling in love with the particular subject called "history" to the point that it became one of my favourites that I don't ever intend to miss the class, I would rather skip a meal than miss an history class, that is how Fallen in love I was.

Travelling to the village to visit grandma and most nights instead of sleeping, just like my other siblings, I would be with grandma in her room listening to those exciting stories about the past that she would share with me. I love listening to stories about the past because it built something inside of me that there was a world filled with young people my age who are now old and are sharing their experiences.

Without the past, I don't think the present will exist, and then the future won't be the talk of the town. Ever since I was born, and now I'm getting old, "I've been hearing the phrases that Nigeria will get better" to the point that it starts ringing in my head like a call tone, and often I would sit and close my eyes and create this picture of a perfect Nigeria in my head.

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Then the moment I open my eyes, I would be faced with the reality we are seeing. Sometimes I wouldn't want to wake up from that slumber because I prefer the Nigeria in my head than the physical one I'm seeing and witnessing, then these words would keep roaming in my head "why can't it be possible" because they say "there is possibility in the word impossible".

Growing up, I heard the adults always complaining about the nation and how difficult it is to survive here; often, they would wish for a better nation where their offspring wouldn't experience everything they were experiencing. That was the prayer of every parent and potential one.

The thoughts of the economy failing its citizens were the talk of the town, "I remember those moments vividly." Being an adult right now, I look at the nation, and I ask myself one thing: "Would this nation ever be better?" Or is this question too much to ask, that I can't get a definite answer?

Every day when I leave my house to hustle for my daily bread, I see people lamenting about the nation, I see the struggles in the eyes of the citizens just like the adults described when I was way younger and I wonder "could this be history repeating itself" the failing economy forcing its way back into our lives.

Currently, I've found myself praying for a better nation, but then I still develop thoughts that are likely to hinder my prayers. I pray for a nation with a working economy so I can raise my offspring and raise them right. I don't want to have the intentions of abandoning my nation and searching for greener pastures in a strange land, but then I would be forced to do that because of the things going on in the nation.

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