Life Isn't Easy - Learn To Survive | A Lesson To The New Generation

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Hmmm this question hit differently, one message to the coming Generation, at first it will be a big lie to say I though life will be this hard right now, we though life is easy as long as we are educated, we have out certificate then boom we will start working, make money and start out dream life, oh we though going to the university, doing phd is the key to success and easiest way to have plenty money but we saw the reality and boom what is at the back of number 6 is more than 7 (adage). I won't say we were lie to back then but all those primary school songs were lies especially the one that we sang about having a sounding shoe (ko ko ka) if we read our books, my shoes do not even have light talk less of making sounds.

One big lesson I will say to the next generation if I have the chance to is that "Life Isn't Easy". Just like Burna Boy said in one of his songs

Life e no easy my brother
You dey find your own, me I dey find my own

It was when I start hustling for job after secondary secondary school that I understand that life isn't what we think it is especially if you have no backup except God or not born with a sliver or gold spoon (that you might think of selling for cash). anyone still under their parent especially when you are still collecting allowance and you don't have to work to earn yourself, you really don't know lucky you are, I remember back then, things weren't that cost like this, my first salary was 15k monthly, 500 naira daily after working my eyes out for my boss but who am I to complain when that is still one of the good jobs then, i even know about some married men with kids earning 8-10k monthly as their private school teaching salary but I use to wonder how they are even managing because what I was receiving wasn't enough for me only. After university/nysc service, that was when I know the next phase of life has started (but I already had option then that was fetching me money).

But let take it as if there was no option, I know the next is to start job hunting which was really stressful (based on my friend complain) and they job offer they could get was way different from what they studied and with low salary especially when it come to front desk or marketing jobs. We though after school we will start earning big big money but all because we are hoping that one day we will get better job offer, we decided to stick with the low paying jobs for the main time, at all at all na him bad pass (a bird at hand is worth 2 in the bush) yet we have life standard expectation that we need to meet but there is no power for such. Truly Life isn't easy we just have to get use to it and learn to survive.