THINK TOMORROW

The Nigerian space is currently decorated with a lot of confusion! From politics to education to the economy to the industries, even sports & entertainment are not left out of the disarray! Unanimously, Nigerians matched to the pool asking for a change a year ago. To our greatest surprise, the definition and spelling of the word "change" seem to be changing! The blame game gets loudest every-day, abuses & tongues wagging at the spate of deepening poverty & misery.

Still wandering how we got here, let's take a little trip to not too long ago. Our today is indeed a product of our yesterday. The actions we did or didn't take, decisions we made or lagged about a great contributions to the burning questions in the trials of today. In a book titled "The extreme future", the writer observed several sectors of the global society. Using the trends of the time & made very profound predictions. One of which was the prediction of oil hitting 300% per barrel in 2015  Unlike us, most of the developed countries began to work on alternatives to oil, other sources of energy to power their machines which will in turn keep them ranking as top economies of the world. 300% was going to crumble their economies if they sat back & did nothing. Slowly & surely, they have achieved that dream now our oil sells at next to nothing! As it stands, the price doesn't look like there's likely to be a push anytime soon! For oil dependent economies like Nigeria, we can all see the repercussion.

We must as nation a leaf from the above example & note that the principle of "living life as it comes, one day at a time" cannot be applicable in causing a real change. Only a deliberate plan & understanding of times are potent in guaranteeing the desired future as individuals & a nation alike!  Our country may be spending so greatly on building roads, providing food for its citizens, protection- through the military & police but forgetting that true liberation does not come being alive but proper education! By this, I don't mean just finding yourself in the four walls of a school but enlightenment, exposure, encouragement of home based & grown solutions for problems as a people! 

True education that can provide self worth- something, a curriculum that makes me feel happy to be Nigerian, the giant, the most populated of the black race! The current crème of young people may have to struggle so much as they lived, dined with the biggest menace & erosion of our time- corruption!   We will need to deliberately brain wash the upcoming generation with the skills of planning saving & prudence! That in itself is education. That’s the only way we can make  the founding fathers smile in their graves!

When the atomic bomb was 1st made & shot to Hiroshima & Nagasaki, I'm sure no one ever conceptualized that the damage will be so devastated enough to have effect till today! The Biblical Egypt was saved by Joseph's ability to manage a season of plenty properly. Never forget, if we must change the world or nation, it begins with you!

Till I show up again with another truth that illuminates in the dark, keep your torch burning!