What's the celebration for? 61 doesn't look good for us.

The year is going to an end already and I see lots of celebrations coming our way, various events would start coming up as we approach the Christmas period. A lot of people who love the season would understand what I mean but for 2 years now, the celebration has been the same due to lockdown, pandemic, restrictions, covid19, and other grammar that has come into existence in the last two years.

I remembered how I suspended my birthday celebration in 2019, it was meant to be my silver age celebration and I had great plans because I don't celebrate my birthday in the slightest form but that year meant a lot to me. The birthday is scheduled for the weekend since my job wouldn't allow me to mark it during the week and just as every preparation was set, the lockdown kicked in.

I had to use the money to ensure my family had enough because I didn't understand how terrible things would get with the virus. I felt really unhappy about it but something is just irreversible and when the moment is gone it can't be recovered.

Celebration for me means a lot and I feel there are lots of things we celebrate that don't deserve celebration while there are things we don't celebrate which deserve celebration.

I intentionally wrote this post to show my displeasure for the celebration of Nigeria Independence day but I don't want an article filled with hatred, the point is that 61 years of Independence doesn't look good on us.

Today, Nigeria celebrates her independence day and today is the 61st anniversary but what hurts is not having anything to show for the celebration. I was born many years ago into this country having lots of problems and till today we are struggling to get things in place and it has even become worse judging from the situation of the country.

Economy, security, health, the government, transportation, every sector isn't giving 30% of what's is been expected from them even after 60 years of patience. I say it over and over that, Nigerians are one of the best people in the world.

They are hardworking, intelligent, creative, and despite all these, the government has been a setback, they are doing nothing to help the citizens. About a year ago, we saw how Nigeria youths were murdered across the country for asking for their rights.

We were ban from using Twitter because we were exposing the government to the world.

The cryptocurrency was banned because they saw it as an opportunity for us to escape from the claws of poverty.

Kidnapping, youths who are meant to be exploring still depend on their parents, inflation here and there even our fiat is becoming valueless, it keeps getting worse day after day.

Every year, the government still spends millions on celebrating the freedom we never had, gone are the days of hoping it would get better because I see corruption in the government moving from one generation to the other. As a citizen of this great country, you must always prepare yourself for the worse.

Enough of the boring story...

There are lots of things worth celebrating this month and my mom's birthday is one of them, she is going to be a year older tomorrow 2nd of October.

She is not the celebrating type, she barely attends any form of ceremony. While we were younger, she do visit the orphanage home on her day and she will say she prefers making those kids happy than celebrating with people. A day is not enough to celebrate her kind of woman who has sacrificed a lot for not just her kids but for others as well.

She won't be home to mark her day with us, her children are used to that already but we do be having some merriment at home on her behalf. I felt bad when she said she wouldn't be back from her evangelism duty the last time we saw and I asked her for something she wanted as a gift.

She wanted a phone which I got for her that same day, I feel satisfied doing that but I wanted her around. I do be doing a small token as a surprise as well, thanks to readcash for making that happen because I am broke at the moment.

I would love you guys to say a prayer for her in your heart for my mom and Nigerian.

Thanks for reading.

What other celebration are you looking forward to before the end of the year???.

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