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Normally, when one asks you what poverty is, what comes to mind is insufficient fund, general scarcity, or the inability of an individual to feed. I believe Poverty is more than that.
Poverty is lacking in what can make you rich. Being poor in certain decisions make way for poverty. The condition or ability to become rich not just in material things, but also in the physical, mental, and spiritual, and the inability to see that, is Poverty. The number of people living in extreme poverty are far more than what you or I can handle or imagine.
What makes Poverty a reality? Obviously the Corruption in our country. But what about you as an individual? How poor are you in making decisions of your own? Can you tell the difference between what is right for you to do and what you are left with to do?
No matter how mature we think we are, we fail at certain moments in our lives, but how do we recover from these failures? All these questions are what you should ask yourself as an individual and member of this society.
Poverty has affected the lives of several people in Nigeria, most especially the girl child. Hunger kills more than the Ebola Virus, but it is not considered a significant problem since rich people cannot die of it. The Poverty striken are left with nothing but their decisions to either remain poor or work at getting somewhat rich, but some have no choice.
As a person, you may have just your mother or father taking care of you or both, with the fault of not having the time for you. This is not an excuse to become wayward or cause destruction to your personality.
At your age, you will be misguided because you will allow yourself to be. You will know everything about being bad because you will be.
Everything you do is based on your mindset. You may be poor or not properly looked after, but that does not mean you should go out of your way to make such poor decisions. Situations like these should rather serve as a motivation for you to achieve something in life to avoid Poverty now and in the future. It should also serve as that strength which you will need to push forward in life. Do things that will make you proud of yourself. Things that will have people wondering how you did it.
The Government steals our money by collecting and promising to do better for us in providing for our needs whereas satisfying theirs. The sooner you realise the Government or no one will help you but yourself, the better for you. Be your own hero! Bridge a gap between you and those friends of yours who mislead you into doing what you should not. The pain and reality of life will surely come. It is how you deal that matters.
Fight your own fight in eradicating poverty and hunger in your life and do not depend on anyone but God to give you that strength and endurance to be the very best that you can be.
Sometimes it is not just about starting a new chapter. It is about burning that book and writing a new one.
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2 comments:
well said.
Very we'll said. But I think the writer was looking at poverty from an individual perspective. The writer didn't state why there's poverty in Africa as a continent neither did s/he criticise the west for the role they played in putting Africa and Africans on the bottom of the food chain. I as an individual have come to a conclusion that, for poverty to be totally eradicated from the continent, Africans must take it upon themselves to radically resist the influence of the west and our colonial masters upon us. The hidden cause of poverty in Africa is basically because black people don't love themselves.
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