2nd September

Dear Diary,
Its the second day of the new month, happy new month peoples. The -ember months are finally here, yay! That means my birthday is a month away, an even bigger yayyyyy o_o!
Now to my question of the day, why do we Nigerians have such a poor maintenance culture, be it our cars, our bodies, our houses, our offices or even the smallest machinery that we own? Do we really have to wait till its broken before we fix it?

I get asked in the gym often why I bother with the gym since I am not fat. Well technically that last bit is not true, yeah yeah, I am not obese but I have a tummy that I would like to see flat and a body that I want to see a little more firmer, thats my answer to them all the time. Do I really have to wait till I become obese before I start looking for ways to burn the fat? What is wrong with working at it when I am still a long way from obesity in order not to get to obesity? That is what exercise is meant for, maintaing our body at the weight we want it. I remember back in my university days when I was a lot slimmer than this, sigh, if only I knew that there would be a day when I would look at pictures from back then and wish I still had that slim body, I would have made the gym my best friend.

This lack of maintenance culture in Nigeria is the cause of most of the problems we face in Nigeria. God rest the souls of all those we lost in the Dana crash last year, it is evident that the lack of a proper maintenance culture that lead to the crash. Its the same lack of maintenance that has led to the rot in PHCN. Same lack of maintenance is the reason why you walk into a government office and find buckets lining the hallways as you walk by, waiting to catch the water dropping from a leaking roof.  Well that and also the evil that we have come to know as corruption. I could go on and on about the effects of the lack of a maintenance culture but then again we already know them.

Do we really have to wait for it to be broken before we fix it?

Omojuwa

Love always,
Iphie
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