Youths of our generation are so deluded and hide or mask
themselves under the cover of generalities,
21st century/social media adages and
modern day proverbs, sayings such as “it doesn’t matter whether your peers
are succeeding now”, “everyone has his time”, and “the fact that others are
succeeding now doesn’t mean I won’t succeed”. As much as these sayings might be
true, many hide under them, these people have become social media activists, 21st
century Gani’s and facebook Lutherkings advocating for the rights of the lazy,
reposting and sharing them knowing fully well that these sayings doesn’t apply
to them and isn’t the cause of their problems and predicaments. These people
know fully well that their problems stem from laziness, they are very lazy,
gods of procrastination and kings of sleep and yet they say “when my time come,
I go make am”, True! Your time will come, True! You will be successful, but
your success would only be in your dreams because unfortunately for you , when
your time came, you were sleeping, when that opportunity knocked at your door
you didn’t recognize it, you didn’t recognize it because you didn’t open the
door when it knock because you were busy sleeping or procrastinating by saying “I’ll
attend to this later”.
This our shortcomings allow us have the time and energy to
criticize our leaders for not making life easy for you, you are annoyed with
these leaders because, as a result of your bad attitude and character you’ve made
things bad for yourself and you are so lazy to work you way out of the mess you’ve
caused for yourself and as a result you look for someone you can lay the blame
on for your predicament, unfortunately for the leaders, they become the victim.
This is not to exonerate the leaders (the political leaders in this sense) of
their sins as they are also guilty of gross misconducts.
This is a wakeup call to Nigerian Youths. “Let’s stand up,
rise and work for our future”. Destiny is a delicate thing, pamper and care for
it and it will grow to become beautiful, treat it carelessly and it becomes
bleak. We hold our destinies in our hands, we hold the destiny of Nigeria in
our hands; let’s not destroy that sleep on the sleep, procrastination and
laziness. We have our future in our hands; let’s not allow generalities and the
social media façade cloud our reality.
This is a message to me
and every growth seeking Nigerian Youth.
As part of our initiative for helping the Nigerian Youth
grow, GIDI STEEL has come up with a monthly giveaway which was formerly just
segmented to the Nigerian Youth entrepreneur but now open to every growth seeking
Nigerian youth. This giveaway is tagged #mygillionairestory.
You stand a chance to win #5,000 for writing your story about any
experience whatsoever in whatever career field you are specialized in, this
story might be about an incident in the past in your career, either a good or
bad encounter in your career experience and it should carry the ingredient of
being either educative, informative, inspiring or entertaining.
GIDEON PAUL
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