I know you wish to grow up and become fully grown independent adults, but not to scare you, it does not guarantee "freedom".
Adulthood comes with the cost of having to take tough decisions at all times.
Find friends who are “slightly better” than you. If you are with young fools, you will only grow to match them. If you are with intelligent adults, you can grow to reach them.
The purpose of dating is to find someone whom you will spend the rest of your life with. It is not to get into “a relationship”. The truth is that the feeling of “love” is just an arrangement of brain chemicals. They don’t stay that way forever.
However, trust, care and mutual respect are actions that can last forever.
Do not be in a rush to have sex. It should not be done out of curiosity or out of some feeling of obligation or peer pressure.
It would be a dreadful thing for you to realize that it isn't worth the short term pleasure despite being warned. You won't be able to turn back the hands of time if you ever engage in this immoral act. Practice sexual purity for Christ's sake, family's and your future spouse.
Avoid people who mock your desire for meaning or transcendency.
As a youth, work to learn and not to earn.
Pursue a career that will be relevant to your world ten years from today. Tech is rapidly taking new turns that will render many jobs ineffective, come 2030.
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Your past sexual frailties during the times of your ignorance does not disqualify you from speaking against impurity. No, it doesn't.
Your previous struggles with illicit drugs should not stop you from advocating against drug addiction either.
It's honourable if you've got no sexual experience. You will be a light and a model worthy of emulation to those who're relying on God's grace to walk through the same path.
On the contrary, It's comforting to have experienced the consequences of sexual impurity and the healing liberation from such acts.
Your story will minister hope, strength and liberation faster and speak more clearly to the struggles of others than that of the unblemished.
As a savvy in Math, I understood that there is more depth to compound interest than learning and teaching it.
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Starting with time, a second is almost equal to nothing,
1million seconds is 11.57 days, 1billion seconds is 31.7 years.
Do the math for 1trillion seconds.
Nonlinear thinking is not very intuitive but can be useful if understood.
Yes, 2020 has been a turbulent year but the menace associated with the Nigerian saga has nothing to do with the calendar year. Nigeria's present administration is a tale of insensitivity, wickedness and a high level of incompetence.
Six years ago, it was #BringBackOurGirls. The previous administration was castigated and labelled a failure. Till today, some of the abducted Chibok girls are nowhere to be found. The new hashtag is now #BringBackOurBoys.
Peaceful #EndSARS protests were disrupted by the #LekkiTollGateMassacre in October. Few days ago, over 40 farmers were beheaded in cold blood in a gruesome #ZabarmariMassacre and now, over 600 Kankara students are nowhere were kidnapped right under the nose of the president.
As a student of the Word and a teacher of teens, I've discovered that it's way easier to build strong children than to repair broken teenagers.
In my little experience, I've had tough times drilling wayward teenagers and I blame this on gruesome and careless upbringing.
If you aspire to be one in nearest future or you're a parent of young folks under 18, you may find this piece invaluable;
In a world where hustling is glorified and raising children is seen as mundane, remember that your children are your reward and not your worldly success (Ps. 127:3).
What does it profit you if you lose your children and gain the world?.
Shame and temptation only grow in loneliness and silence.
Think about the anxiety that accompanies the burden of secrecy, the self-hatred after another failed attempt to say "No", the apologies that feel less and less genuine and the promises that hold less and less power.
Many jobs are on the verge of complete automation because of the growing effect of Artificial Intelligence on human labour.
The newspaper is almost dead. Traditional media is suffering as the internet is eating up everything. You no longer need to get your news from the papers, you can get them via twitter or life stream as they're happening in real time.
Traditional magazines are fighting for their lives not to survive competitively but to survive as a whole.
Information is free and there are few publishers where the trust in their brand is enough to keep them going.