Lately, I've been thinking about a lot of things concerning Lagos, the roads, the population, the people there and a couple of other things, this is basically my mind trying to come up with more excuses why choosing to remain here is the best option for me, because with everything that I think of, lagos ends up losing.
If there's one thing that I'm sure that I, along with every other person there hates about lagos, it's the too many population. Lagos state is a state with more than times two of what it could contain comfortably, and yet there are still more people coming in.
I remember the first year I spent here as a student, how peaceful and non-chaotic everywhere was. I didn't fully appreciate the difference until I traveled down to lagos to go see the rest of my family, that was when I realized that I was living in hell. Over there (Lagos), you literally have to fight for almost everything, you have to fight to get on a bus, you also have to fight to get off the bus.
I still remember the one night where my phone got stolen just because I was struggling to get on a bus, a bus I ended up not getting on. Then about thirty seconds later of me struggling, I realized that my phone was no longer in my pocket. What was even more crazy about this whole event back then was the fact that I had my earpiece plugged into the phone and was listening to a song the whole time, and yet when the song stopped and the earpiece got disconnected, I had no idea.
That was probably the day I made up my mind and decided that lagos wasn't for me. That was the day I knew that I'd never be settling in that stressful, violent state. But unfortunately for me, my family still lives there and I do have to visit them from time to time to say hi and each time I go, I have to put on a strong face, one that shows that I'm not scared of the troubles that comes with the place, as that is the only way I know that I could guarantee a little bit of safety for myself.
Because the slightest hint to this people that I'm scared of there or that I haven't been to the state in a long time, could see me being placed in potential danger and that is the last thing I want for myself.
I know all of this sounds like it's all bad in Lagos, it's not. Just that I live in the side of the mainland where it's mostly just chaos.