I hope life could be kind to us
For the couple of decades I have experienced life
on this part of the planet, I had always known the
Hausa hustlers to be more hardworking despite
their low earning when compared to the rest tribes
that do even the little of things yet earn massively.
Even with such unfavourable, unfair and
incommensurable life turnout, they are not known to
stealing, and they hardly beg.
I didn't need to argue that with anyone as it was just quite obvious. Who would find pleasure as they do in trekking distances for business wise? Who would see it quite lucrative as they do in pushing
heavy wheels under scorching sun just to purchase condemned iron materials that are obviously so low in worth? These and many others are the questions
that do often stir up in me the courage to assert their levels of hardwork in high esteem.
Meanwhile, recently, I have had experiences that questioned this long upheld belief. A strong and
keen Hausa hustler halted me and appealed diligently for something to add with the little on him to afford his lunch.
This was more than just a demand; for to me, he was indirectly spelling out
the ills of the society we all find ourselves in. Absociety where hardwork does not pay. A society where success isn't a measure of how hard one
hustles. A society where even nature isn't in tune with its inhabitants. This experience has done worse
than making me feel emotionally daunted as these are people that should not lack at least daily bread, for they have genuinely given in to hardwork. Ahhh!
Why is there so much hunger in the streets? Believe me, it is more than a deathly trauma!
Even the academic world is not left out in this despicable system.
Those that have sat for UTME more than once have heartbreaking stories to tell - that of denied admissions, even upon meeting the criteria; that of low grades, even when one wrote so well that one
could outrightly challenge and defend it.
Which is even better? Is it the very onethat one would write exams and the determinant of one's success lies, not by what one wrote, but at the mercies of the lecturers involved? I just believe we
are not in the wrong side of the universe.
Perhaps we are, because evils and it perpetrators have indisputably come to stay herein.
All in all, it is true that life of hustling isn't so funny out there, hence, I just pray whatever retards our successes should have its doom in the abyss, for a good workman deserves good wages. And as we put in our best towards making ends meet, I just hope life could be kind to all of us.
