I might not know whom to address this letter to but I just have to pour out my mind on what has been bothering me for the past seven years. I just hope that by the end of this writing, I will be relieved.
With tears flooding my eyes, I pen down this letter. It might appear that I am a failure in this life because of the country I was born into; probably, if I were born in another country, life wouldn't have treated me this way.
God knows that I have tried my best, as others have, but it seems the more I try, the more things are turning against me. This is unfair. Before now, they were sounding in our ears that education is the key to success. As a result of this, we spend all of our time and our resources on going to school. Parents who didn't have enough sold their properties, while some went into debt to ensure that their children could go to school so they could be successful in life.
After that had been done, nothing to show forth. The success that was glamoured went into extinction. Parents become frustrated, and children who spend nights reading and studying become more depressed.
I did not know that I'd one day become a victim of this, when my predecessors complained bitterly about the state of things, it didn't occur to me that I'd one day become like them. Indeed, when there's a shipwreck everyone becomes a victim.
It's been a decade since I finished school with a good result, yet nothing to show for it. Everything around me is as if I have never been to school, the pay from work is not enough to feed me for the next pay day, every morning I wake up to ask God when my story will change?
Those outside may see me as lazy and unindustrious, or put it differently, as uncreative, but how much creativity can I be more than this? I have tried everything possible to be the best of myself, but nothing seems to be working.
I am on the verge of giving up, but I wouldn't because I know that it's only in death that everything ends. So long as there's life there's hope.
We can do better as a nation; many people, especially those who have been to school, are doubting the possibility of education becoming a tool for success. Unless this statement means something else. Why would those who have not been to the four walls of the university be doing better than those who have been to school? Why would graduates with so much knowledge and information be living like slaves?
It wouldn't be so if an enabling environment were set for things to work out well in the country. Our government can do better than just lip service.
Other generations are coming. Would they have to suffer like their parents did? Something needs to be done. I believe that if we start today to value our nation the narrative will change.
Yours truly.
