I had a banging article to write this morning, usually I start my writings by thinking about the point of the article, then the body follows, sometimes I’m lucky and I find ongoing happenings to add that even makes it more interesting, sometimes I start with a topic, other times I don’t have a topic till I’m done writing.
However today was one of those days that I started writing with the topic first, I was just scrolling through Twitter when the topic popped into my head, it was simple, short, precise yet heavy, deep and very meaningful. I liked it, opened my notepad and in that same second, I lost it.
I tried repeating everything I did in the last minute that led me to that point, hoping that one of my reverse actions will trigger the thought back into my head, after spending several minutes in a mental battle with myself with zero progress, I gave up, with the hope that maybe it’ll come back if I don’t stress.
Well it never did, these brains really do act up sometimes but who can blame it? With everything that’s happening around, news of scores of people dying keep taking the highlights of the day, the amount of people that have died in Nigeria due to terrorist attacks have become more than the deaths caused by COVID19 and the government’s priority is shutting down Twitter because it makes them look bad to the rest of the world.
I’ve spent most of my 20’s struggling to provide basic amenities for myself in a country ridden with the worst and most corrupt leadership in the world, yet the little people have been able to squeeze out for themselves, the little ways people have been able to carve out for survival, the government is doing everything to take it away.
As much as I try to mentally position my thoughts above these happenings, sometimes it gets really overwhelming, why won’t the brains act up really? I’m trying my best to do everything I can to transcend above these horrendous situations, tapping into every legitimate opportunity out there within my capability....
Entering the world of cryptocurrency has been my highest source of hope, I can relate with the decentralization dream because I live in the rotten space of a failed centralized society, through decentralization of the financial system, blockchains like Bitcoin, Hive, Ethereum have changed peoples lives for good.
They’ve provided sources of income for thousands of people especially in Nigeria where the government have failed woefully to do, in Venezuela and other failed economies, but what did the Nigerian government do, ban crypto!
Seeing news from Miami embracing crypto gives me joy, with the latest news which I got to find out on Twitter today about the President of El Salvador passing a bill to begin accepting Bitcoin as legal tender, whereas the over 70 year old politicians in Nigeria are still battling with themselves over open grazing and banning Twitter, makes me feel in the wrong place.
Till now I’m not sure what title I want to give this post, maybe it’ll be my first post with no title, I’m not in the best head space right now, I want to take a break from all of this, but where will I go? If I keep mopping, I’m only passing up on the opportunity to improve my chances of getting out of this situation as fast as possible.
I hope you’re doing much better than I am wherever you are. Thanks for reading
