The Adverse Time

It all happens so quickly. Your life. And you never knew what hit until it hit. You couldn't understand the plight until it took flight and landed in your world of course.  People's lives change everyday and everyone's realities are never the same. It dawns on me now, sometime ago in fifth form I was having a conversation with some family members and they warned me of adversities to come. Of course I scoffed at their words and removed myself from their hateful atmosphere, I thought then, that maybe they just didn't want to be positive and that expected everyone to fail. I thought they didn't think positively and didn't have enough hope, not enough belief in themselves. But that was far from the truth. Their truth was, they'd all been broken, one with a dead father, one with a jobless mother and poor father, one with two financially unstable parents, plus a deadbeat, one with lost dreams and weighed down by age, held back by time another with lost opportunities and what I call poor man's syndrome. It wasn't that they didn't think I could make it, they just didn't know how to see through the cloud of despair and hopelessness that greeted them each morning at the crack of dawn. Working like slaves to make ends meet. Working or seeking work and not gaining, only remaining. Stagnant. The theme of their lives. They couldn't fathom the thought that one could glide through life, it's rare. A privilege not afforded to the every day youth, the guy in the board house shielded by zinc fence, cruising along the unpaved street , kicking up dust the lady next door just swept, on his way to the shop to get a pound of rice , a tin of sardine and an onion, maybe a koolaid and half pound of sugar if there's a little extra change. Dinner to feed the an entire house of 4. I'm not exaggerating. Their lives are not easy, for them that's adversity that's their everyday life. It's not being unable to connect to the wifi or buying a chicken box instead of a meal deal. But their lucky when you think about it, because imagine those of us who have been allowed to cruise and be easy. Smile and lay back, imagine when real adversity stands in our way, blocking all sight of hope and a better life. Imagine your walls of support crumbling and being replaced by looming clouds of darkness slowly closing in, Imagine not knowing what's happening as the world around you seems to end, of course a new era will dawn but the unknown, the ignorance of what's to come is frightful. Unlike the likkle youth sitting in his corner of the house ,the scent of sardine filling his nostrils, you don't know what contentment with that situation feels like, you don't know what contentment with nay situation other than your own feels like and it's terrifying. The unknown.
Imagine. 

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