Times are hard or Time is hard on you?

the current state of the world.

Dear Reader,

No two persons have the same experience nor are we going through the same thing, although we can have similar experiences, it is not always the same.

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Sometimes it feels so hard to be in some certain "time"; a time when you feel so exhausted from putting in so much effort without any fruitful result; and you feel reluctant to face the world because you are afraid they will see your flaws and use them against you and in the quest to hide these failures, we fail all over again.

But to be very honest, we are all going through "a lot", I can say categorically that we have all seen shege¹ at some point but the truth is this; shege pass shege, and whilst you are entitled to feel sorry for yourself and want to drown in your sorrow, you need to realize that some people see evil every day and they sleep knowing fully well that their roof is on fire yet they sleep at night or anytime holding on to any of the slightest bit of hope or new dawn they could get.

Everyone says times are hard but we seem to have forgotten that in these hard times, time is hard on some people, they have to deal with the double-barrel hardness of the season we are in; if you could get a least a cup of clean water to drink, you are not on the same boat with those people who live every day searching for a cup of clean water to quench their thirst.

If you could wake up complaining about the size of your room, you can't compare with people who just became homeless or who have never even had a taste of what it feels like to feel the feel of the corrugated iron sheet over a brick wall.

It is just not the same, hard times and hard times.

I am writing you this letter to remind myself to stop complaining about my situation and do the things I'm supposed to do; I'm reminding myself of the bits of opportunities that these hard times have given me, the chance to work on training my heart to accept the little efforts I have made to relieve myself of the stress that comes with this difficult times.

Right now, I don't know what is happening in your life, but I know that you're bigger than your problems, you have overcome tough times before and you will again. The situation of things makes it seems as if these bad times would last forever but they won't, and we won't be carried away by the desperation to run away to the extent that we would inflict ourselves with unnecessary pains and worries.

Sometimes it is finance, other times it is love, friendships or heartbreaks or it might be bigger than all of that, it could be Nigeria, you could lose both parents the same day, it could be unknown gunmen or bandits, it could be ASUU, it could be the Government, or it could be you or someone else.

There are a lot of things that could go wrong within the blink of an eye, but if you are lucky to still have your life, you could still do a lot amidst all this chaos.

I hope we all find peace.

1. Nigerian way of expressing an excessive hard time