If I were given a huge sum of money with the option to remain in my country or travel to another country permanently, which would I choose?
This is a simple one to choose.
Although we all have our different opinions and choices, I still think anyone that’s born into a family and didn’t fall from the sky would never choose to leave his homeland completely. Or don’t you think so?
Some months ago, one of the people I’m very close to in the city where I reside had a relative who came back from Dubai. According to the man I’m close to, he said that his brother, who came from Dubai to visit them, hadn’t been home for about 20 years. I was wowed, but I wasn’t too shocked because traveling that distance costs a whole lot of money. Along the line, we started putting ourselves in the position of the man who traveled down, imagining how he had been coping for such a long period without visiting home. I said I don’t think I can travel abroad permanently without the thought of coming back home, especially when I know I still have family here.
Actually, I’m not the type that visits home often. I can stay for years without visiting, as it has been with the stage of life I’m currently in, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think of home or imagine how sweet it would be when I finally visit. Home is the place I choose as a destination when it comes to rest, especially when it involves meeting family members again. The thought of it alone—I mean visiting home—brings immeasurable joy, especially when I know that I’ll be visiting soon.
“Okay, you’ve been talking more about family, what if you have the funds to fly all of them over to the new country?”
This question sounds fine, but can a whole family be carried to a new land? The family here, I mean not just the immediate family but also the extended family.
By the way, in as much as it’s all about family, I can’t imagine selling off my name, heritage, or tradition just to leave my land and settle in another man’s land completely. If I were to import every family member abroad, it would mean we are selling off our name from our land to live permanently in another man’s country, because that would mean we wouldn’t visit home again.
To the white or the western countries, they may not see anything wrong in this, but in my part of the world—Nigeria—we value home, name, and tradition, and we don’t joke with them.
So it’s a big no for me. I would prefer to use the huge sum of money to establish a business here at home (Nigeria) than to travel out permanently to another man’s country.
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