What do you do if every morning you wake up and stare into the abyss of the long day ahead as an entrepreneur, manager, salaried employee, farmer whatever and worry about what the day will bring? All the stresses and strains of trying to do business, be an employer or employee and earn an honest crust in this great nation of ours? Despite the odds you get out of bed, do your ablutions, get dressed and set off on the journey to work to earn whatever it is you earn.
On the way you are then bombarded with headlines like "how we shared N10bn!" What do you do? How do you feel? Do you ask yourself what's the bloody point, go back home, crawl under the bedsheet and cry?
Or let's imagine you are running a small business and you need N5m to grow or take your business to the next level. You do the requisite business plan and take it to the bank and what do they tell you? Sorry we cant help you. On the way out, your dejected self is hit with the headline "Bankole took N10bn personal loan".
How long can you carry on before you say well sod it I'm going into politics? Is there any point in even trying to maintain a facade of honesty when we are all adrift on this raft of greed and corruption? How long can we hold out before we drown?
What do you think?
Well I just shake my head and get on with my life, would be nice to travel at the front of (or in my own) plane, but economy isn't killing me, nice to have a X6M but my Pajero serves me fine, basically I count my blessings cause there are millions around who would love to be in my position.
ReplyDeleteI do wonder though how the truely poor feel about those headlines, and why there hasn't been a revolution.