Chris Nwachukwu

Every time I enter BRT on my way to school or back home, all I see are tired faces. Some people are already sleeping as early as 6 AM. Like, how do you wake up in the morning and you’re already exhausted? Sometimes almost half the bus is asleep, including me. And I don’t think it’s always because we’re sleepy. A lot of people are just tired. I take BRT almost every day, around the same time, and I keep seeing the same strangers. Same tired faces, same routine. I don’t know what their lives are like outside that bus, but sometimes I look around and wonder, does it ever end? Do we just wake up every day, struggle to survive, go home exhausted, sleep, and repeat until we die? At what point do we actually start living? Or is that a luxury only the rich can afford? Anyway, I’m a software engineer. I build websites and apps, and this is me getting ready for school.

There’s a special kind of fear that comes with showing someone a project you’ve been building for weeks. The first thing they click is the one button you completely forgot to test 😭