Have you ever wondered what life would be without challenges? Maybe we would still be in the Garden of Eden just eating fruits and jumping around with different animals coz the first challenge man failed was hitting the forbidden fruit (well, according to the bible). Life is indeed full of challenges and of course, it is different for everyone as both the rich and the poor have their fair share of challenges but we can all agree that the one thing that makes a lot of challenges easy to overcome is money, that's the major obstacle of the poor when it comes to tackling challenges.

One of the few things I can still remember from my primary school days is the definition of democracy. I remember chanting it repeatedly with my classmates when our class teacher introduced the topic in social studies; democracy is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. I learned that it is the system of government practiced in my country Nigeria and there are other types of government such as monarchy, autocracy, bureaucracy and so on. I read a lot of current affairs books when I was a kid and that was how I learned about Nigeria's history of flipping between military and democratic governance.

Alcohol is certainly an interesting substance, considering how it affects certain people and makes them behave in a crazy way. Over the years, I have noticed that everyone has different reactions to alcohol. For some people, it makes them completely helpless and unable to even speak properly. Then we have those that start behaving crazy and start dancing around with so much energy. On the other hand, we have the ones that completely become maniacs and start acting violently. For me, I become very bold and overconfident when I'm drunk and I feel like I can talk to anybody in the world 😅.

This is one of those topics where there is no easy and straight answer because when you logically examine both sides of the argument, you will realise they both have their pros and cons but ultimately you may end up picking a side based on emotions. I mean, a lot of people in the lower class will choose to have a limit on how much everyone earns just to checkmate the rich but is that even fair in the first place? It might make sense at first but then what should the rich do with the excess money they make after reaching that limit, donate all of them to the poor?

I'm not someone who moves around a lot, either commuting to work or going out to have fun and that means I rarely use public transportation, maybe once or twice a month, and sometimes I can go several months without the need to go somewhere that needs public transportation. But even at that, I'm still aware of the current state of public transportation in my vicinity. If I had written this post around this same time last year, I probably wouldn't have anything to say as regards problems with transportation in my area.

Maternity leave is a phrase we have all heard being used much often, especially in the corporate world and it's a time when mothers are given the much-needed space to recover from childbirth and take care of their newborn child. I mean, it does make sense this way because the child is still at a very fragile stage and requires full attention, which is something that won't be possible when the mother is still at work unless she ignores her tasks and focuses on taking care of her child, which is pretty much the same as just staying back home.