Y’all, they’ve started praying for God to bless me so I can have my own kid(s)! 😂🤲🏽
“Kai, and this aunty is really nice o, I sincerely hope she has her own kids soon. She’s so sweet.”
Yesterday, this woman (I like her too, she’s a good person) in all sincerity prayed for me and kept saying “God bless you” emphatically.
Me sef smile con dey shout Amen ooo 😅
Ha, should we tell them I can’t even afford to breathe around piniz when I’m ovulating or it’s pregnancy straight? 😅
Or the number of times I’ve played pingpong and sent those foetuses right back?
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I have very sensitive skin so I’ve had to ditch my usual bath soaps; Bath and Body Works ni o, this Tahiti vanille soap ni o, even Idole or Dudu Osun.
None works and they make me flare.
So it’s exclusively baby soaps now.
I went hunting for Sebamed baby soap and just one is #5000 and wtf!!!
These people think I’m comfortable enough to have kids (and tbh, I’m much more comfortable than people who go right ahead to have children truly).
So the next thing is to just destroy this little enjoyment in my life and bring babies into the mix?
Like felt cute, I can’t be facing this chaotic world alone, let me do these unborn children “a favour” and bring them here?
I should bring chaos to my body, physical health, mental health, finances, lose my time, personal space and slave away for another person I’ve used my own hands to create?
And then miserably scream at others who wouldn’t do the same thing?
All these because I have an uterus and it should not go to waste as the peak of my life is being an incubator?
And I must be a horrible person if, peradventure, I’d like to outsource the birthing process and pay for surrogacy? I must be the one to do it to prove what?
Please tell me how all these make sense.
You know that meme where one person stands in front of a crowd and says “Yes, you’re all wrong?”
I am that person now.
YES, YOU ARE ALL WRONG.
Not only are you bringing people into this chaotic world, you’re giving birth to children in Nigeria.
You are a very wicked person.
If you’re currently pregnant and giving birth in this country, you are a very wicked person and I don’t know how what you have done is not in your own interest but in the interest of those unborn kids.
You are a selfish wicked person is all.
You finish giving birth and you can’t even take care of them.
They become menaces to the society.
You think it’s just truancy that shows someone is a menace?
Heck your children can be well-fed and well-dressed and they’re still a menace.
Those ones constantly advocating for children to be beaten to instill discipline and how they have turned well especially with being beaten?
Yes, they’re a menace.
Those ones who constantly berate women and say we’re less than men and should be treated as such?
They’re all a menace.
There are so many children wandering the streets.
There are so many children that even their own parents don’t want and show them shege.
Yet everywhere, it is “give birth give birth give birth, just procreate.”
That werey Elon Musk is not screaming at you to give birth day in day out because he loves you or your country.
You’re the last person Elon Musk will care about.
You are all just numbers and profits for Capitalism.
The Nigerian Government isn’t running helter skelter and funding propaganda against people running away from Nigeria because they give a flying fk about you.
It is because of your labour power and profit. They need you in droves to profit from you.
Of course you may not get this because education is fucked and you don’t understand how this all works.
I mean for them to easily convince you about Euro-Naira conversion and tell you the abroad is also very expensive and you shouldn’t go.
It shows how fucked the education system is.
I mean didn’t you at least learn about Interest Rate and Inflation in Primary four?!
Stop breeding like rats!
It affects all of us, even ME that has refused to have children.
So stop breeding like rats!
We’re already overpopulated!
The world is currently stretched beyond its capacity.
Stop breeding dammit!
You have brain, you have a developed cerebrum dammit.
You can have sex as much as you want, stop breeding!
There are billions of children to love, live for and adopt. But you keep breeding like rats without any plans in place to take care of them.
It doesn’t even matter if you’re rich, you shouldn’t be giving birth right now.
You’re all just selfish bastids.
The world needs to pause on childbirth right now!
It doesn’t pay the masses, it pays the elites.
Y’all are just numbers and profits to them.
They don’t care if you have nothing to eat or you drop down dead from lack of healthcare.
Thousands of others are already born to replace you and the cycle continues.
Stop breeding dammit!
Childbirth is not selfless in any way, it’s a selfish thing to do.
Don’t bring other people into all these mess.
Written by Sisí Afrika.
