Just thinking of Bieber

I am writing this after watching a documentary on Justin Bieber, the beauty of becoming a star at such a young age. I watched the gradual growth of this young boy.

What I’m getting at is how his growth had meaning. He learned to play the keyboard and guitar. He sang in local competition and even sang on the streets. One time he made enough money to take his mother on a vacation!

That goes for many successful Hollywood stories – Angelina Jolie, even when she was already loved by the world, still got lessons from acting school.

But in this part of the world, you have to compromise everything you are just to show your talent. It is so crazy. Companies would leave the talented and hardworking one and give the business to the one sleeping with the boss or the one whose father is related to the CEO.

That is why we are backwards even in little things. Everything in Nigeria is mediocre because real talent is subdued and oppressed for the wack ones to grow.
If you don’t have money of your own or you are not from a rich family, just forget it!

Sad.

I realise that Justin Bieber’s success is a combination of many things – talent, hardwork, opportunity, people, the right environment, and strategy.
Now we are all living in a Bieber’s world! All because a young man dreamed and a society allowed him to grow.
What is Nigeria doing to her own people?
Let’s meditate on the future.

-          Adaora