Hey y'all been long time i posted stuff on here......anyways here is a nice piece written by Jerome Onipede. Assimilate it!
It was late in the night when I got her call, I usually don’t check the time to see how late a call was coming in for me, but I had to check because the voice on the phone was like that of a Teenager, and I was wondering what could have gone wrong. I have had young people call me just to seek for help when their parents are about to get a divorce and they want a counsellor to speak with them or text messages like I got from one which read “Good Morning sir. Please my Mum is going through a lot and needs counselling It’s still all about my Dad. Help us sir. God bless”. Lots of Children in Nigeria now are carrying the burdens of irresponsible and selfish parents who think about nothing, but themselves alone. Some of these children react/rebel by losing interest in their studies lose interest in God, find solace in alcohol, drugs or sex, and a lot of them have lost interest in values that promote love and commitment. But then before I take you too far into all that, the caller wasn’t a teenager, she just had a tiny inquisitive teenage voice. She actually was much of an adult when I met her. Was I relieved to know it was not another teenager carrying the unfinished business of self centered parents in his/her young life? Continue Reading....
