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Is this how we’ll be looking at the trend without a check? Is this how we will allow the heritage of our heroes to be in vain, allowing other people to come after our generation to blame us for doing nothing? Young people are involved in one menace or another every day, and you will not be able to quantify whatever you see in most of these young people, so what is our sustainable plan?
It is sad to work on our street every day and see how young men who are old enough to be responsible adults become very very loose with all the young women that are expected to be responsible mothers. You will see how we value a child that comes into an unexplainable amount of prosperity. Yet, most parents do nothing but watch, and some even go as far as spending this ill-gotten money with their uncultured children. It is always a mystery to see how parents celebrate young people who do not have a career or business that is either structured or unstructured, to justify the luxurious life they live just because they want to contend with the competition that is trending in our society.
How do we justify a 20-year-old boy using his lady friend for ritual as opposed to a 17-year-old boy who became a chartered accountant at 19? Now the question is how we explain the difference to growing children; are they equal role models? One is in the process of securing a future that is never going to slip away from him. While the other is in the process of securing the present without thinking deeply about the future. When the future arrives as a result of their present, reality will eventually meet society’s actions and inactions, and we will start showing sympathy to the child who is 20 years old, working in a ritual that will start rewarding him and cut his own future short because he believes he requires more in the past than in the future. How does our government also allow this whole thing to happen without checking? What happens to the days where discipline is not just a parental call but a community call?
To the listening youth, I hope that we retrace our steps back to things that add value and meaning to our lives. They say it is important to go to school, but it is not a mandatory option, as schooling is not for everyone. The earlier we understand this, the better. So if you have the means to go to school, kindly take the opportunity and maximise it. But if you don’t have the means to go to school, or you are not even interested in what the school has to offer, why don’t you learn a trade, be a master of something futuristic, and don’t just keep gallivanting around life without value?
Remember that we all have a future, and in that future, we have some assertions. Also, for every soul that comes to this earth with a budget, know that one day you will be forced to leave, and you will not die until you exhaust your budget in life. This budget requires you to work, believe, and put effort into being a better person. What is this budget? This budget is your life’s expenditures that are regulated by the Divine Being. You’re going to get something for everything, but it is important to also do something, because there is no food for a lazy man, yet we should strive for sustenance in the right direction.
Sustenance is not meant to be met through crooked means. Sustenance is meant to be met through very organised means, diligent work, hard work, and smart work that show credence to efforts, not mean that are not clear and can affect your life.
Finally, I believe our government, community, and people must understand that our ill-conceived system will not save us in the long run from productive youth. Yes, you will say that young people are in flying colours and doing fine, but the question I put to everyone is: what proportion of these young people are on the right path compared to the youths that are going in the wrong direction? Are you sure that we are not breeding bigger threats to the youths who are upright in the future as we overlook the youths who are going astray, who are not correctable by anybody, the ones who have not seen any value in things that bring dignity and morals to human life? I don’t understand how we want to do this, but I know that one day we will have ourselves to blame if we refuse to act because our actions and inactions always have a result. So, youthful exuberance is something we must collectively look into and collectively address or else things will fall apart beyond what we can ever imagine.
Olajide B.O.Y.
Founder, Ayekooto Fact Finders.
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