From The streets| Existing To Survive

A place we call home, a place one misses and appreciates. At times a place that can kill a dream and hope. This is a place where it all happens, young adults breed in their comfort zones and live on “existing to survive” mantra.  The young and the restless calls it Ghetto and it's one of the places where all levels of confidence reside because everyone claims to be a Wise. The general belief is people from the streets live on an everyday reality 'to see things getting worse for many and better for a few.' Choices and the company you keep determine your tomorrow and many always tell a tale of regret wishing if they could have done things differently.

The spirit of stagnation seeps through the dusty streets. A kid with a dream today but life hardships and responsibilities can easily knock his off course. For those who blame life for being unfair, terrorize the drains and get high on alcohol and drugs to drown their sorrows away. Standard color for lads’ lips is black, dreadlocked hair is the signature hairdo. Almost everyone is His own boss, dealing to make a living, now that's courage. Parents from all walks of life, guard jealousy their daughters and nieces like eagles protecting it's eaglets so monsters of the streets don't pounce on their innocent souls. Child marriage lingers, sucking the girl child into a temporary escape.

From these streets, you either get self-motivated to break new grounds and escape the web of poverty or you get the title deeds to a comfortable seat in the poverty realm and live the trend.

All parents say the same prayer of freedom and prosperity over their children’s lives but the demon that haunts young minds overshadows with heartache and disappointments. When a child escapes the demon's jaws, to be different and prospers in life, it's like Christmas in July, a reason to wear a peacock’s outfit to show they're proud. It's priceless!

For everyone who comes from the streets, life is not thinking about what you don’t want to become but more of what you can be. They say the antidote for poverty is an opportunity, nurture the potential in yourself and begin to place yourself in areas where opportunity can easily locate you. It’s a privilege to experience the bitter side of life were legacy is not common. When you see the change you fully appreciate it. I am from the streets and I live to tell the tale of change and prosperity. In the streets, we are born to change!