Today, i ran into an old school mate of mine at the Palms.
After running a couple of errands, we were joined by another female friend of hers and we decided to chill at Cafe Verganano. So i'm sipping my milkshake and they are puffing away on their cancer sticks, and we start to conversate.

Lets call my old schoolmate Chi and her friend Lacey.
So Chi starts by complementing her friends hair so of course i had to complement the hair as well.
Chi then goes on to tell me that the weave is a brazzilian weave and she knows a supplier, just in case i'm interested. So i ask how much the one she's wearing cost and she says #85,000. In case you missed that, i can write it in words EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND NAIRA, ZERO KOBO ONLY!
I must give myself credit for not keeling over in shock, i just thought i might have heard wrong i even asked her how much the shorter lenghts cost and she said #60,000. Ok oh. (Baroque shey you were talking about #60,000 shoe yday!)
Make i first swallow spit.



Ok, now my thing is.........Ok, it's not just one thing, it's many things.
First, is it just me or is it extremely VAIN to spend such an exhorbitant amount of money on a weave???
As in, in my mind, i think those weaves are made for the likes of awon weavalicious madams like Beyaonce and Tyra, not for a young girl with no visible means of income! Like serzly, where could she possibly have gotten such money to spend on a weave? Ok, let us not even go there, but what kind of values do you have if you would spend so much on a weave? Again, this is all my opinion, but i just think that such money can be put to much better use than a mere weave which can never turn you into the next Most Beautiful Girl in the UNIVERSE!



If at this age, she spends so much on an ordinary weave, as she gets older one can only imagine the kind of lifestyle she might have to resort to in order to keep up.

To say that i was saddened by this girl would be an understatement, because for me it went beyond just carrying 18 inches of curls on her head. It made me think of the kind of values some of us Nigerians have.
I believe our Nigerian society celebrates all the wrong things and as such people would do go out of theur way to keep up with the Joneses.

I used to think this mentality of extravagant fooloshness would be much reduced in my generation, but so far that doesn't seem to be the case. These days everybody seems to be looking for the shortest cut to big bucks.
It seems like hardly anyone wants to live for more.

Living with us in our society are people who would spend #5,000 as feeding money for a family of 4 in a month, and would pray for you forever if you give them that much, yet people go about living so extravagantly.

Yes, we always complain about tht state of our nation, and how the government is bad and how the government isn't doing enough, but if we as individuals play our own little roles, our country will definitely grow and get much better.



I am by no means trying to paint myself as a saint, infact i am rather vain sef according to some people, but i think there is a line where vanity crosses over to foolishness, and i do manage to stay away from that line.



There really is so much more this matter brought to my mind today, but typing in the dark isn't really cool, so i'll stop here.

Toodles peoples.


P.S - The above post is only an expression of blog owners opinion and is not neccesarily meant to "call out" anyone in particular.