Greetings!
Happiness is very crucial in ones life and it's one thing that strengthens human when challenges come. Happiness is a necessity and it comes from within. One thing I'm very sure of is that happiness is free and no one can make you happy, not anyone but your own decision to be happy goes along way.
Seeing this week prompt, I don't believe people are happier today compared to the time past and this is due to alot of things that are happening in and around us, economically people are down, educationally people are struggling, mentally people are not upright just to mention but a few. So all this with a lot of leadership failures has culminated into people being sad and not being happy.
In the time past in my country Nigeria, our economy was one of the best in the whole wide world, there's investment here and there and graduate get employed easily unlike today, where people the unemployment rate is on the rise. My former college principal once told me about how he got employed in the time past, the man said at his convocation at the University of Ife then, employers were on ground to employ young graduates to their various field upon graduation . The man even said immediately his employment was signed, he was given a 504 Peugeot car. This can only serve as a motivation and source of happiness to a young man that just graduated from the University. Today, the reverse is the case as young graduates are moving around to seek employment but all to no avail and the only thing that comes out of this recent development is depression and frustration which saddens people's mind including the parents of the young graduates.
The current bad economy is another factor affecting most families here in my country. Families are not enjoying anything as they supposed to here in Nigeria. The inflation rate is something that is really affecting the happiness of people this day overhere. Prices of things are skyrocketing day- in day- out, people cannot afford what they used to afford with the little they have. Taxes are on the high, tariffs are on the increase and people are lamenting. A friend of mine once told me what led to the divorce of a marriage that has produced 3 boys and a girl. The guy said on a fateful day, the man called his wife from the office and told her to make eba( swallow) with the little garri they have at home which the wife agreed to. But when one of his sons came from school, he went to play football on a nearby field and after the game, he came back home with his friends and they all drank the garri. On getting home in the evening, the man was expecting the wife to serve him the food but she couldn't as she narrated everything to the husband . The husband got flared up and beat the boy to stupor, it was as a result of this that the wife left the man and served him divorce. So, everything is not making people happy nowadays compared to the time past.
Insecurity and other social vices are also contributing grossly to the unhappiness of people nowadays when compared to the time past. Lives then were secured unlike today where you are not even sure of waking up from your bed safely just because of insecurity. People are being kidnapped and held hostages, with the payment of ransom on the rise. Also, whenever you read or listen to news bulletin, there's uproar and discomfort in your mind thinking of what and who could be the next victim. Seriously, alots is making people of nowadays to be happy when compared to the people of the time past. Those people including what have experienced in the time past really enjoyed everything in abundance., security in abundance, economy in abundance, education in abundance., just continue mentioning it. You will realize happiness of those in the past are well guaranteed unlike today where brain drain is the order of the day, ha, premature is not something new again, suicide is on the rise, murder cases are being settled in the court of law everyday. That's the world we now find ourselves.
My only advice is that live a happy life and also enjoy that little you have.
A photo generated from AI and two are mine.