For years now, a lot of Nigerians have been traveling out to seek for greener pastures out there and often times I've found myself thinking about what it would feel like stepping out of this country and going to somewhere new for the first time, where everything is being done completely different, where it feels like the citizens matters and the government has their best interest at heart.
But although all of that would be beautiful to witness, I honestly don't see myself as someone who would want to live permanently in a foreign country. If things should go my way, the plan is to travel to those places occasionally for vacations while I still come back here because here's home.
And if you're wondering why I'm suddenly talking about traveling to foreign countries and all that, well it's because I've come to realized that this country has so damaged us, that we now see certain things as special privileges, things that people in other countries don't even take note off due to how common it is over there.
Over here at my school, the power company does this thing where they tend to give us longer hours of power supply whenever they notice that most of the students have all traveled back home. I honestly don't know why they do it, but my theory is that the power supply tends to be more during these times due to the fact that there are less people consuming the power. Kinda like when the usage is low, the supply is high.
Anyways, today was one of those days where we got long hours of power supply and I had gone to sit outside with my friends who were seated there, when all of a sudden, one of them brought up the power supply issue. He was shocked that the lights had stayed on for that long and was wondering when it was going to go off, almost like he was scared of the positive change because he wasn't used to it.
Hearing him say that made me realize how damaged this country has made some of us to be because in other countries, they have steady 24 hours uninterrupted power supply and no one sees it as a big deal.. But over here, we celebrate when we get ten hours of power supply in two days.
It's that bad.
You sound very much like one of my brothers. Man is looking to visit every single country on the earth, but he's not so hyped about relocating to another country. He says very often that all that's required is to make something stable of one's hustle, and one will experience better living. I understand, sort of.
And he's right.. All we have to do is get rich enough to be able to visit any country of our choice and still come home whenever we want.. Kinda like our Nigeria music celebrities.
I can relate to the situation as my country's situation was also the same. My county is also a developing country but in the case of electricity it's quite good here and I consider myself lucky for the continuous electricity supply. I hope your country's situation will be improved soon.
There's a lot of problems stable electricity can solve in this country, if only the government could look into it... Unfortunately for us, they all have stable electricity at their various homes, so they don't care about the rest of the public.