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With all my love,
Dara Rhodes
Monday 9 February 2015
It's cold.
Monday 2 February 2015
On my mind.
It is 2:28 am on a Monday morning and I can't sleep. Why? Nigeria is on my mind again.
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Let me tell you my biggest fear. My greatest fear, is being like every Nigerian that is older than me. My greatest fear is accepting this Nigeria. My greatest fear is that I will wake up one day at 35 or 40 years old in a nice house in Lagos with my own little family, drive out of my gate and see little children hawking on third mainland bridge. As far as I'm concercened, all the generations older than mine have failed me and my biggest fear is failing the generations after me the same way.
Today is the 2nd of February and the presidential election is on the 14th of February. You'd think that is what I'm thinking about or that is what is bothering me but it is not. My problem at this exact moment is very simple; I am twenty years old. Yes, the fact that I am twenty years old is the reason I can't sleep at 2am on the 2nd of February 2015. I am twenty years old and Nigeria, my country, my only country is on fire. Doesn't twenty years old epitomize youth? And aren't the youth the real shapers of society? What can I do? What do I need to do? I know what I want to do but is there something I can do now, today to pacify the fire? Is there something I need to be doing? I don't know and this is the real reason I can't sleep.
I am terrified. Petrified by everything going on in Nigeria. They say we are the future but what does that even mean? How do we really help Nigeria? I love my country even in it's terribly sickly state and more than anything, I want it to be well. I love my country and that is why I want to make sure it gets to the hospital before it dies but I don't even know of one hospital to take it to, talk less of the way to one.
At this exact moment, I'd just like to turn my mind off and get some much needed sleep before I begin my grueling day but nope, my country is on my mind. How do I help Nigeria? What do I need to do? What can I do now? Somebody, anybody, please tell me because Nigeria won't leave my mind until I know the answers.
With all my love,
Dara Rhodes
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