I'm tired of being sick and tired

When I sat down has to write My column This week, I was overwhelmed by THE multitude of problems I research has address: THE the Presidency repel against New York Times factual report on THE unprecedented economic crunch In Nigeria that was exacerbated by President Bolas Tinubu double Strategies of grant deletion And floating of THE Naira, THE policy And judicial shit show In Kano concerning emirate, THE tirelessly suffering In THE to land, minimum salary, etc.

Each country, including THE United States Or I live, has problems. I always recognize that. But he seems has Me that Nigeria problems are particular because they are always THE even year In, year out, And people WHO should solve them don't do it even pretend has be interested In solve them. They repeat THE even movements, mouth THE even sterile And predictable defenses, And throw THE even insults has reviews.

SO, I request myself if there was even any of them indicate In My in writing. WHO bed What I to write anyway? Of those WHO read, WHO cares? Of those WHO care, WHO East In A position has change Nothing? Am I waste My time by in writing about problems that won't change? Should I take A emotional to break Since Nigeria?

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This is not it THE First of all time I am Fight With with these questions publicly And in private. I am Of course I am not THE only person WHO struggles with these questions.

A lot people to have request What I stay has earn Since My keen interventions In Nigerian business When I am not A direct victim of THE dysfunction of THE country And won't be A direct Beneficiary of THE systemic revision I desire For THE country.

I used has think people WHO request Me these questions were myopic. I always they are.

But I am, RIGHT NOW, just sick And fatigue of be sick And fatigue. We duty debt For This colored expression has THE late Afro-American civil rights activist Since Mississippi by THE name of Fanny Lou Hamer.

HAS A memorable speech She book has A rally with Malcolm X In Harlem, New York, on December 20, 1964, In support of THE Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Congress Challenge, MS. Hamer said, among other things, "And I have has been fatigue SO long, NOW I am sick And fatigue of be sick And fatigue, And We to want A change. »

My own emotions are different Since Hamer's. I am not even In THE emotional State has ask For A change because I have has been TO DO Exactly that For more that 20 years. I think I am once Again suffering Since What I called outrage fatigue In A 2021 column.

He East, as I sharp out, incited by supported sensations of incapacity, despair, mental exhaustion, And cynicism, which Ultimately lead has indifference And even compassion fatigue.

My outrage generally flows Since A source of virtuous indignation on injustice, avoidable lack opportunities, elite cruelty, And avoidable existential disasters. He East fed by expectations that It is energetic ventilation will jerk people has act And cause policy makers has TO DO fine For THE GOOD of THE company.

That was What Pulitzer Winner American journalist James Earl “Jimmy” Breslin supposed When he said, "Rage East THE only quality which has guard Me, Or anybody I to have Never studied, in writing Columns For newspapers. »

But outrage, rage, And even compassion are not A permanent condition; they are intrinsically temporary. It is impossible has keep your Mental Health while You are In A perpetually agitated emotional State. In other words, outrage fatigue East A unconscious self defense mechanism. It is THE the mind path has relax And reconquer serenity.

It is bad enough When outrage changes Nothing And When both THE people on of which in the name of You are unworthy And THE people of which bad behavior activated your outrage to use You For target practical In launch vituperating darts For bold has be unworthy. But It is worse When people pretend that THE consequences of ignore well intentioned outrage are unexpected.

I wrote sheet music of articles warning that THE neoliberal path has development that THE Tinubu administration has NOW With all my heart kissed would be result In Exactly What Nigeria East going through. In do, Before Tinubu was sworn In as president, I wrote that deletion essence subsidies would be to stimulate A unmanageable economic disaster that would be TO DO governance difficult.

He turned out that more that A decade There is Tinubu himself had writing almost Exactly What I to have has been in writing about THE consequences of grant deletion on THE economy. NOW her media helpers are pretend that they don't do it know that her Strategies are responsible For THE without example inflation It is destroy THE lives of common people.

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