Nigeria, March 21 -- Life feels like a fleeting illusion, a dream so vivid yet slipping beyond reach. It exists as a story recorded in the depths of memory-a collection of moments, faces, and emotions that seem real until time erases their certainty. Everything moves too fast, shifting and reshaping itself so completely that we often wonder if the past ever truly happened or if it was merely an echo of imagination.

Change arrives unannounced, an unstoppable force that makes no two moments the same. It bends our desires, alters our choices, and dictates our needs-many beyond our control. We grow, adapt, and chase the promises of adulthood, believing it to be the pinnacle of freedom, comfort, and self-sufficiency. As children, we dream of ...