Chasing Dreams

I call my younger sister my baby sister. She's not actually a baby, infact she's in
her late teens. It just gives me the feeling that I can protect her no matter what.
Saying I love her at this point will be stating the obvious 'don’t tell her i said that
by the way' Lets just say i have shy issues.
She entered the labour market some time ago. Ok, not to be conceded, it’s an
industrial attachment programme with all the fancy that comes with working
with experienced minds and being part of a team. She also has to bear with the
heavy Lagos traffic to and from work.
She came home this evening after a hard days job, "shina people are suffering." "That’s
old news" was the first thought that came to my head, but her eyes still had the
reflection of the harsh reality she had seen: a mother barely clothed with
her naked baby crying by the side of the road, catching a cold is the least
of her worries because she knows starvation will kill them long before she catches a cold.
A girl under age 7 hawking in the dangerous Lagos traffic. she survives an average of 4
accidents each day, molested before she's even a teen by her drunk stepfather, she
gets pregnant 6years later and doesn’t even know who the father is because she was
raped again two weeks ago, ironical cos this was her mother 15 years ago.
Luckily for her, the AIDS kills her before the cycle continues.
Things that make you think of your not so perfect life and still be grateful.
Changing the world at this point is impossible from my point of view.
Good leaders, morality, and every other thing with a DNA that says change for the better
can't stop the suffering. I guess that’s the balance of nature: life and death, rich and poor,
night and day, you get the picture?
If not having a car at 18 or gadgets that can feed a family of 4 for a year
is the cause of your depression you, should probably get a gun and get it over
with because there are people whose only worry about cars is not getting hit by one
making their daily bread. Live life enjoying the little things you have. There’s no wrong
in wanting more in life because the word progression wasn't coined just to fill a space
in the dictionary but spend more time appreciating what you do have than you do
chasing dreams.