During a recent interview with media personality, Biola Adebayo, Activist and actor, Mr. Macaroni, has asserted that the average Nigerian’s survival mentality and mindset is a curse and not a blessing. He hinted that the 24-hour hustling spirit is not something to be proud of. Macaroni noted that Nigerians are too quick to accept everything thrown their way and that shouldn’t be acceptable as the standard because Nigerians should instead strive for “ease” and not “adaptability” alone.
Adebayo said: “What I have noticed about Nigerians? Our survival mentality. We think it is a blessing but it is a curse. The average Nigerian is a survivor, it is in our system we always find a way to make it work. A person who didn’t have money to go to work the day before would make it to work somehow, they may not know how but they would eventually. A person who doesn’t know how they would eat would somehow eat.”
“We always play about it like ‘I’m a Nigerian, I will survive,’ ‘If you can survive in Nigeria you can survive anywhere’ and it’s not something to be proud of. It’s a curse because that way anything that comes our way, we would accept it and move on! If the dollar goes up or anything goes bad we would move on. Why? Because by instinct and by default we just want to survive so we never know when it’s enough,”
“So I ask Nigerians ‘When would we stop surviving and start living? What is the average lifespan of a Nigerian?” he concluded.
