A Proud First Class Graduate from Delta State, Shares her Story and Craves for a Better Life... MUST Read!!!

".... study hard, make good grades n life would be so much easier for you, you will excel beyond your wildest dreams, everything would be smooth; the jobs others would find difficult to get, if your grades are good, you will be considered first, I tell you! Just make good grades and see how smooth the ride of your life would be".

That's what they told us, that's what we were made to believe but guess what? They lied to us. Yes! I think they did or maybe they said it because they felt it's what we needed to hear, they thought those words would make us focus or perhaps, things were easy in their own time.

That time when the best graduating students were given jobs even before the due dates of convocations, important persons from banks and other companies would attend convocations and offer life long opportunities to best graduating students and those life changing opportunities would raise the poor but serious and dedicated students to d places they dreamt of whilestudying hard all those years in school.

Truth be told, those days are GONE! The days where academic excellence was a high determinant of a successful future for a girl like me, whose single mother fought hard to give the best legacy(Education). The days when going to school with great focus and determination was of great rewards and ended up being very much appreciated, rather than social/political class orstatus, skin tone, hips/boobs sizes, pretty faces and all of these vanities that has bought the value of education over time.

At least, our parents had words of encouragement for us so we would be willing to read, they told us things to enable us remember why we were in school. Hence, sometimes, I truly wish I was born back then because looking at my life right now, I doubt if I have what to tell my kids when it's my turn.

How do I explain to them that hard work pays when fresh graduates who have refused to get their hands dirty are roaming the streets of Nigeria, jobless and drop outs are riding in luxurious cars and no one really cares. "The ends no longer justifies the means" because they are worshipped by those who should have cared about how they made it.

It's here in my mother land (Nigeria) that there is a proverb that says "hunger makes you discover your talent" and guess what? In Nija, that proverb makes a lot of sense because if you where a proud, jobless First Class graduate with a 4.73CGPA like me and you feel angry and really frustrated selling "zobo drink" after 4years in d four walls of a university, and an extra service year to your beloved country, you would realize that writing a piece this long to express your views is not so hard so, yes! Maybe I just discovered my talent through frustration but is that the best way? If yes, what does the future hold for me and for all of us out here who studied to make a difference in order to avoid poverty?

Lord please, if not for anything, please, for the sake of our unborn children, I wish Nigeria would rise from this dust and give us better stories that would give birth to great words of encouragement from the  heart for our unborn children.

I want a better life and so I pray for a better Nigeria but the big question is, who is willing to help because I'm ready for a change.

By Peace Ntuemene | Facebook
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