You have no reason to be living under your father's roof after college. You will be a father & husband one day. Go out there, & learn leadership because responsibility is not genetic. You earn it. Past 25, pack your things & go start living - with friends or by yourself. Grow up!
What if you have no job? Staying with your father won't get you a job. Youu are spending 5K every week anyway on alcohol you don't need, banter that does not grow you, and women who don't challenge you. Go experience privation, learn to budget. Make real connections.
Listen, when you are a man, the world does not care. People like to associate with men that make shit happen. Your fear of discomfort is an impediment to growth. I want to link you to opportunities but you cannot stay out past 11. "Daddy will lock me out" And you are 30!
It isn't a celebration of suffering we preach, but the pursuit of "why". Because once you have a "why" that is inevitable you will make a way. In the process of making a way, you build connections with your peers, for future opportunities. They know you, they can trust you.
Some are trying to live in Africa like they are in America. At some age, African parents want you gone, whether they say it or not. Be they rich, or poor! They want you to go & start beating your path. To learn to live with people. If birds with no brain know this, why don't you?

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"Don't date a poor man, he'll leave you when he is rich": "Don't date a woman poor, she'll leave you for the rich". So much fear, yet your parents found each other in the village with nothing but slippers - somehow built a life together. But you are smarter!
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People abuse early maturers. You use them only as vessels, and therapists. Women use them for advice on men; men use them as designated drivers, or simply ATM machines. Early maturers demand so little of society, and instead of being grateful, society gives them even less.
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Purpose is not the beginning of life. Purpose is a collective product of your life. The food you enjoyed, the moments you shared with loved ones. The time you were at the barber's. Even the heartbreaks you suffered. In business, or relationships. The risks you took.
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