I wish this generator would spoil or the fuel would finish from this generator," I thought to myself. "Tell me, why would someone run a generator from night till morning and from morning till night, even after the landlord has warned them not to run the generator past 12 am, so the tenants and neighbors can sleep?" But the students in my house have refused to listen.
We can't have a peaceful sleep or silence in the house. If they're not playing loud music, they'll argue for hours. This is the story of my life with my neighbors, who are students.
Sometimes I wonder where they always get the money for fuel. When we were still buying fuel for 200 naira in Nigeria, I knew they could afford it, and anyone could afford at least five liters, which is 1000 naira. But now that fuel is almost 1000 naira per liter, I still wonder where those people get their money from.
They're only students, always staying at home without going to school. They only go to school for exams, and I even wonder how they pass their exams. But we live in a corrupt world where lecturers can collect bribes to pass a student who doesn't write anything and fail a student who writes something. We just pray they change.
That's not even my main concern, but rather where these students get the money to always disturb me with their generators every day. That's why I always pray silently that the fuel gets finished. But the craziest part is that those children have already brought another fuel; immediately one finishes, they pour another fuel. I just can't help but want to cry at times. If it were just the generator, it would be better, but with loud music, we've complained and complained, but they've refused to listen.
How can you use your peace to disturb others? That's one thing I don't love to do – using my own enjoyment to disturb others. I hate it. Anything I know will affect my neighbors or anybody, I won't do it. But I just think these people don't know what's wrong or bad.
I always say they're not different from selfish politicians because this is exactly what they do. They don't think of another person except themselves, and that's why they'll use their own enjoyment to affect someone's peace.
Even now that I'm writing this post, they're shouting and arguing about someone who knows how to speak well. Can't they just talk silently? I don't know why you'd shout on top of your voice while talking. I don't know why it's affecting me seriously, maybe because I'm an introvert, and even if I'm home all day, you won't know, but these people are disturbing my peace and silence.
One of the many characteristics of an unhealthy environment is noise. I hate it. I just hope to change my place soon to a silent house. Though our environment is silent, my neighbors are the problem.