Dealing with Hike!

Have always wondered why citizens of my beloved country Nigeria complain about the poor economy, when You can find an average NIgerian flexing in ShopRite, Sizzler, Aj, Bar and Joints almost everyday especially Saturdays and Sundays, enjoying themselves. I mean if the country is that bad and prices are skyrocketing how do these people cope and enjoy themselves?

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Recently there was this cashless policy that happened all over Nigeria, because of the change in some naira notes, there was scarcity of the new notes in banks and also the old ones. This situation actually made matters worse and it really hit the country very hard. Funny though, I still found half of my city lining up in Shoprite Dynasty club with credit cards like nothing was happening, don't look at me i went there just to observe.

I was actually coping with the expansion of price in markets, but with the cashless policy it was the intervention of God Grace I managed to scale through. What made it so bad was that most people started selling both old and new notes to their fellow citizens at a very high fee, people who can afford it bought the notes and people who refuse to buy their own currency in their country suffer the long hellfire queues in ATM stands and banks.
Hmmm me i had no choice but to join the sheeps, half bread is better than puff puff.

People all over the country were in agoning and in pain, simply because they had the money to buy what they wanted, it's just sitting in the account but they could not get the money out.

The case now was no longer Price escalation but Cash scarcity, you'll find yourself in debt not because you don't have the money to pay, it's right there in your bank account looking at you but you just cant bring it out because of cash scarcity. Let's not even talk about the Bank transfers and transactions that made people lost urge money during the cashless policy, that my friend is a story for another day

Price escalation i can cope with but with cash scarcity i just found myself shocking myself. Though the cashless policy i tos fading away people are still trying to recover from the impact it made.

Bygones be bygones The essence of struggling hard, trying to make money, is to survive by making ends meet. And by doing that you need to follow the wind whichever direction it blows you to. If there is an increase in price, deal with it. If there is a cashless policy or any other distraction flow with it, life is too short to get depressed over rubbish.

This is why you see countless people enjoying themselves , why you wonder if they aint affected with the situation of the country, I mean if you are always thinking about the current bad situation of Nigeria, one day you'll find yourself lamenting, complaining and nagging while walking on the road. Nothing will change without you struggling to survive with the rest of the citizens.

The pin point is, "Set a Goal, Have a plan not just A but plan B and so on, stay focused and be prayerful, keep working on that project to make more money" And you won't even be bordered if Nigeria is in the deep sea of Price escalation or goes cashless. Who knows, maybe one day we might bump into each other in a fancy restaurant. 😁