How i moved abroad

Sometime ago,my uncle told my mum that it was impossible to raise responsible children in the environment i grew up.I look like an ‘aje butter'(to my non Nigerian readers 'aje butter' means a rich kid,thanks to my cute face) but grew up in a place i can call the photocopy of ‘ajegunle’(a place described as a slum).

 Looking at the environment from a distance,we look calm and collected but when you delve into the lifestyle of the people living there,it is a different story especially with the children i grew up with.

I can recall a teenage girl getting pregnant and couldn’t point a finger to who got her pregnant not because she was raped.She was a ‘public staff’. All i can remember is how quick the so called responsible bachelors started relocating from the neighborhood in order for the teenage girl not to rob them in.It was quite pathetic.

What was the difference that caused a difference in my own life? I will simply say is developing some set values at a tender age(trust me,i never that was what it was called).I remember saying to myself that i won't end up like these guys, all i knew then was, i just wanted something better than what was going on around me.

When i left lagos for ilorin, and i hear people talk about lagos,i just smile within because i felt their imagination of a beautiful city was quite different from what i experienced.I was of the opinion that i lived in the village (local area) compared to the nice and beautiful places like Lekki,Ajah,Banana island (‘in the abroad’). I later discovered that i am not a function of where i live but a function of what lives on my inside. Some people live ‘in the abroad’ and look fine but what lies in them is a beautiful gutter.

 Make up your mind to live ‘in the abroad’ on the inside. 

The inside of a man speaks volume than what he chooses to show people on the outside. Don't leave a plastic life and pretend to have a great life when in reality you are just not it.

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Allen Zito
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