Lately,I’ve been thinking a lot about life. For the longest time, we’ve been told that we have to go to school, graduate, make money, settle down, have kids and live a comfortable life. But funny enough, we are old now and we don’t even know what we are about.
I’ve literally been in the schooling system my whole life, but I happen to find myself in a country where the system doesn’t work. The system is constantly working against us and so we basically have to put in more effort just to make it in life. The Ghanaians average youth today feels like they are behind in life but truth is, things aren’t the same as they used to be then. In our parents time, things were a lot better as the economy wasn’t this hard and the system rigged so much. And so it made sense that our parents were able to make settle down early and build their lives faster.
For our generation, we have to put in extra effort and do more, and even with all this, it’s not assured that you’d have something to show for all of it at the end of the day. If you’re lucky and have a headstart a head of your mates due to your family background or connections, then it’s a win for you. But if you come from a home where no one knows anyone, you’d have to go through all the hardships of the system with the hope that things would work out for you. Currently, I’m not just idling , I’m working my ass off day and night, hoping that someday, I will be where I want to. But I don’t have any assurances, aside the fact that I’m hoping that God comes through for me.
Sometimes I take a look at other people who are way older than me but have been let down by the system and it has been wondering if this will be the story for most of us coming up. This has led to most of the youth finding their own ways and means to earn a living, whether legally and illegally and no one can talk about it because this is what our word has come to. It can be hard at times for someone like me even though I know I won’t engage in anything illegal. Would things go right or not? I don’t know, but the mere fact that I’m trying is enough to give me the hope that things will turn out well at the end of the day.
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