Life-Problem Complexity

Life is weird, the higher you go, the bigger the problems.

Let me break this down:

A homeless man’s saving grace could be $5 to enable him get some food so he could live for that day. If he some how overcomes his homelessness he will have a new set of problems.

Let’s say he got a job and moved into a nice apartment, the bills comes in, he needs to pay this and that and probably needs to settle some extended family monetary issue. Regardless of his well paying job and nice apartment, he’s tired and still complains of his unending problems.

Years down the line, he somehow becomes a millionaire, making big deals and buys flashy cars. To the general public he looks happy with no problems. But he’s thinking of how to liquidate this and that due to bankruptcy. Also, he has a family member with cancer which depresses him a lot.

I could go on with this imaginary story and some people might not get the point. Problems never end, we are born to die – death itself is a big problem. Thinking about my own mortality makes me sad sometimes.

Problem no dey finish, dey try enjoy life

– Nigerians (1960)

With that being said, be kind to people, you are not aware of what’s on people’s mind, they may look rigid, tough, happy, glamorous but we all have problem and they seem to never end until we die.