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Student @ Obafemi Awolowo University
A memoir, not a Meme
<p>I have come to a realization that the social trending phrase "the struggle is real" is actually real. I used to hear it as a meme. I didn't know it was a memoir. It saddens my heart to know and hear that brutality doesn't start from adulthood, or after school.</p><p><br/></p><p>It's common to say that life's unfair, but life played dirty. It didn't just cheat. It cheated the people who had to suffer, just so that ends could meet means. I tend to find out that my perspective was a lie, fed to me by a version of life that shielded me from the truth.</p><p><br/></p><p>I really thought it was all cruise when Michael de Santa said: "Surviving is winning, Franklin. Everything else is bullshit. Fairytales spun by people afraid to look life in the eye." Life forgot values and laid down fables for its cohorts to pass on. It laid down puns like: work hard and you'll be successful, education is the key, just stay in school, crime doesn't pay, and so on. I'm not saying I'm in support of crime, but those were tales laid down by people who never had to choose between eating and dignity.</p><p><br/></p><p>It matters that people sleep hungry. It counts that teenagers have to work menial jobs just to provide as a result of their fathers' negligence. And in this part of the world, where I can't see anything like child support? It's terrible. It makes a fool of anyone who ever believed in a fair start.</p><p><br/></p><p>The phrase "everyone has the same opportunities" is a blatant lie. It's all rigged. It's only best for whoever holds the king card.</p><p><br/></p><p>Awareness doesn't cut it anymore. Something has to be done. And if the system won't do it, we'll have to do it ourselves.</p><p><br/></p>
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