Humans of Lagos Episode 11

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I should be the first unofficial Nigerian to trek from Delta state to the city of Lagos. 
I left my village for Lagos city because it is a common believe that the city is a land flowing with milk, and money. 
I left my land of birth with a high hope of making it. 
Though I have no relation in Lagos, I planned to return to my village taking the wealth of Lagos to my wretched family and turn our story around for the good.

I spent twenty-two days on my journey. And when I arrived Lagos, it was not anything near what I was made to believe. 
I was duped by street urchins, my gentility was taken by most Lagosians for stupidity. 
Living life became a hard thing for me.

I could not return to my land of birth, loneliness became my companion and hunger stared into my tummy turning my body enzymes into chemicals destroying my organs while I am alive. 
I remembered my three square meal, the image of my loving aged mother kept coming to me in every of my dream. 
Lagos mosquitoes are quite bigger than Queen Bee, and their humming is louder than the Mountain of Fire Deliverance Prayer.
"Oh my home, and when shall I see my home?"

I blend with the life of Lagos, I join the touts and I was unique. 
I couldn't afford to waste my time over the past that I will not be able to recreate, I need to live in my now; perhaps my future may spring good surprises.
The spirit of survival in me is high, and it is positively working for me. 
I do join the political rallies, bus conductor, and sometimes do petroleum product pipeline vandalism.

I have shelter over my head in the slum, I wear proudly my low grade wears, the security in my abode is near perfection-so my essential needs are met. 
Oh need I say that I do not lack sex as well. 
I live my life, I created my own happiness.

I do miss my family, but I can't help it. 
They will surely survive without me. 
And if they don't, then they weren't fit for the survival of the fittest then. 
Life is simple, if we take it to be.

So when I see rich people committing suicide, I seem never to get it! 
I don't know why anybody would do that, but who am I to blame nobody?

Every time I see another breaking of the day, I welcome it. 
I see it as an opportunity to explore. 
I am not afraid of death, but I will explore till I die.

"I like the kind of life am living."

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