The veiled life is can be viewed as the make-believe lifestyle. It is a faux that has stayed with us for a time too long to remember. Wherever you turn to, you find it unreservedly displayed. Hold on, was it you who asked for those adverts showing half clad ladies while youtubing? When you clicked next on that tiktok app, who scripted the next video to be shown? During my days of Facebooking, certain portrayals on the platform by individuals gave me a feeling of a looser. Afterwards, an unconscious but subliminal inordinate desire arose within me.
The veiled type of life is usually aided by agents of socialization. Take the society for instance, the measure of success are mostly hinged on certain dogmas which includes owningluxury cars, houses, wearables…who doesn’t want to live the fabulous life? Since the acquisition of some of the above mentioned indicators seems to be the yardstick for deciding success in the modern day definitive, the new norm has become “Get it now or never”. It was Burna Boy who stated in an interview that
“if you no get evidence, nobody go believe say you try”.
The veiled lifestyle is a major distraction to self and to it ever teaming onlookers. A distraction that seeks to steal men away from focus. How so? Well, let look take a look at the smart phone and all it alluring capabilities. Though a device meant to ease communication, many have become it slave wasting away on apps alongside unlimited collection of videos and games. In the words of MJ Dermaco, we are dead at twenty but not buried until seventy-five. There is always something to distract users on that flashy piece. A closer look and you’d be surprised to find out that a sense of falsehood has been offered to it millions of users. Oh yes! You heard right.
It appears to me that the craze to please faraway social media friends is on the increase. No wonder the upsurge in the use of AI aided photos, purchase of pocket wrecking gadgets, as well as a quest to put on fabrics won by superstars. Sometimes ago, Dr Sam Alehile, a lecturer at the Kogi state university opined that it seems as though there is a positive correlation between middle or low class earners and the crave for iPhones. It is either there’s something they know that we all don’t know. Today, a quick look and you’d find many students in public institutions with exorbitant devices. Please don’t get me wrong. I am not implying that some students cannot comfortably and legitimately own exorbitant devices . What I am saying is this; isn’t it surprising and quite illogical to watch an army of dependent members of the society possess high degree of taste or consumption- folks with no income whatsoever safe for transfer earnings from relatives and friends.
The ills of the veiled lifestyle is that it create a garrison of fortified falsehood idolaters. In such a society, fake becomes the norm while reality takes on the image of falsehood. Perhaps it high time to come off from the falsehood of dogmas and begin the reality check. It is about asking the right questions and getting the right answers.
“Who wan join the big boys suppose ask the questions of why, who, what, where and how” regrettably, a bulk of our youth pay closer attention to result instead of process. It is time to reorient ourselves as a people.
– Olayinka Kayode writes from Kobape, Ogun State.
