Seeing young adults getting politically involved and telling the establishment the truth that it sometimes may not want to hear is encouraging. It's a good thing, really. I’m encouraging all who want to take up politics as a career to go for it, but don’t leave modesty behind. It's not good to be too narcissistic, especially when you’re a newling. And I don’t know, but by most accounts on here, it appears as if our expectation of an overnight change has gotten us so deviant and aggressive. Whatever it is, gracious is not the word I'll use to describe it - generational mutiny/rivalry is more like it. I just hope it wouldn’t end up like it is in Nollywood movies on inheritance, where the kids cannot wait for the old man to step aside so they can take over and bask in his glory.
Wye Olof Njie neh dona sa baye, don sa baye ah ko geun. (It is better to try to be like your dad in achievement or even better than him, than to eagerly wait to become heir to what he created, whilst feeding on him still).
If we don’t want our sense of entitlement to become unrealistic, we need to appreciate that good and lasting things come to those who earn it, and not those who demand it through displays of pounding anger and frustration - dramatic tantrum like that is not youth like, and certainly not so kindly. We gotta know when a situation requires us to wait our turn, knowing that ability to do something is not always a thing of instinct or opinion. The body is not always in sync with what the spirit thinks is easy to do. Some things require skill, practice, competence and experience. So if you're as empty of it as my fridge, it’s wise to keep calm and have it as a goal. The quarterbacking disguised as a critique won’t help.
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