Switch In Time: The Good Old Days and the New Worse Era.-Olajide B.O.Y. 

It is so amazing to see how time flies day in and day out, how our doings aren’t improving, and how the ends are neither a new beginning nor a better outset. It is equally alarming to see how we are depreciating in the majors and how our minors are exponentially appreciating. It is a switch in time to see, how the good old days are better than this new worse era.

We are in an era of plenty without a penny, a season of lots of resources without results, and a moment of gains without a goal and hope. The future is scarier than ever and the present has become more disgusting than the past without any hope of reversing the situation to normal.

In the good old days, we lived as one, irrespective of our religion, region, and resources. Before this millennium, we related to each other, we recognised each other’s strengths and weaknesses, and we complemented each other wherever and whenever necessary. Those were the days when family values were golden, communal rules were unbiased, public institutions were more efficient than private organizations, politicians were more people-oriented than greedy, grades were more publicly applauded, leaders were more conscious of their followers’ needs, and youth lived with manners and the right altitudes. Homes with low or no budgets were still able to survive.

A fast-forward into the new worst era, where manners have been replaced with menace and homes are more shattered inside than a recently filed divorce. Prosperity has replaced passion, education is more certificate-driven than problem-solving, hospitals are losing their healing purpose, among many others.

Before our very eyes, things fall apart. The watch is dangerous. We must salvage the situation, or else the sober will be sorrowful. There must be a way to improve our current situation. We Nigerians must be deliberate in our work for a better nation.