Memo From The Street: This Life Is Vanity

If you think deeply about this LIFE, you'll realize all is Vanity. We hustle day and night to make MONEY.

If you take a good look at everyone on the street, you'll know the real hustle has different stages and levels. You see people buying and selling; biker-man and taxi drivers longing to have their next passenger(s) on board, so they could smile to the bank. You'll see people hustling hard, with different dreams and goals.

We all have our dreams and goals. We want to make money, eat the best of foods, travel round the world, live in choice areas; ride fanciful cars in the day and beautiful women at night. Even when we couldn’t afford our neighbour's car, we want to get something like a car to ride, be it a rickety matchbox on four wheels.

The street hustlers keep pushing, hustling to make a living, while the pen robbers, at ease keep adding "0's" to figures. Contracts getting being inflated. The government formulating and implementing policies that is fast-tracking the wideness of the happiest between the 'Poor' and the 'Rich' to a gulf.

Government is our worst enemy in this part of the world. The government wants to make the poor wretched and the rich richer.

There will be no middle class soon. Is either you're poor or rich. Simple!

But really, "mo fe d'ogun, mo fe d'ola", isn't all VANITY?

Written by Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde, an Osun based Street, Documentary Photographer, Photojournalist, Photo Analyst and Columnist.