I finally came home today after over 2 months of being away. My parents have been busy making a lot of changes in the house. Changing doors and painting parts of the house. It's an awesome improvement.
As always, my mother had a lot to get off her chest. I feel like she stores conversations in anticipation for when she sees me so once we meet it's one gossip or another. I love it, it's the highlight of my visit all the time.
Well, this time around she had some complaints to make about the child I kept under her care. I once wrote about her. I forced her on my parents as a helper and all they have to do is feed her, clothe her and send her on errands.
My brother and I took up her fees. Well, he pays 80% and I pay the remaining 20% and deal with the conversations with her school and other annoying parent activities.
Anyways, my mom complained that this child of 10 years old might have some atom of pride. Those were her exact words and I found them funny.
She came home and told my mom about how almost everyone in her class was sent home for not paying fees and she was among the few pupils left in class to learn that day.
My mom wasn't happy about it so she told her not to speak about such things and how she's no different and if you know anything about Nigerian parents you'd know how dramatic this speech would be.
From what I gathered, this 10-year-old has never been to a proper school in her entire life. She's the 8th child out of 11 children. Her parents are dead broke so they can't even afford contraceptives.
This child has never experienced this sort of privilege. Talking about how she wasn't sent out of school for unpaid fees wasn't a conversation of pride but one of curiosity. She's curious about her new status of minor privilege.
The entire conversation got me thinking about everything I'm used to that might be considered a privilege to many. And the things I'm not fond of that I might consider a privilege that someone else might see as a norm.
Take for instance constant power supply. Over here, if you're able to live in a part of this country where you get as much as 12 hours of power supply every day, you are privileged. I mean, you have to be wealthy. Your source of income might even be questioned.
However, I've been to the UK. I've seen Hollywood movies. The power supply is not a privilege. It just is.
The same goes for a lot of other basic amenities. Like water supply, proper roads, clean air, food, everything.
Privilege is relative and while I've never considered myself underprivileged, I know I am.
I mean, my brother once wrote about his need to immigrate and the funds he would require and someone considered that a need that would require crowdfunding.
I mean, I consider my brother privileged. But unfortunately, thanks to our location, we're extremely underprivileged. We're privileged minds, yes. We're blessed with some income. However, our environment makes us so.
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What one person consider a privileged is not a privilege to another privilege is a matter of mindset and environment that we all find our self into.
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