A letter to the Teenagers/Youths by Gladys Adisa Markus

[Okanlawon Oluwapelumi]

I started dating at a very early age, of course my parent will beat the h£ll out of me when they find out but some of us were just too stubb0rn.

At the age of eighteen which is supposed to be the official age of adulthood and probably the okay age to be able to make good decisions and know between right and wrong,

At that age some of us have already gone through series of heartbreaks that we have already given up on love.

And at the age of nineteen, I was already a mother. Truly, when you rush into something, you will rush out of it.

A lot of young people this days are sitting pretty on this table. They are too young to be carrying the burden or weight that they are carrying but no matter how you try to advise them, they will never understand until they experience it for themselves.

Girls of fifteen to sixteen years now be dealing with issues that girls of twenty five are supposed to be dealing with.

And somehow, young teenagers both girls and boys are now looking older than their age due to the heaviness of burden and pressure they put themselves through.

We are always in a hurry to be an adult that when we finally become one, we are already tired of being adult and even living.

When you cannot wait for the right time and season to do things, there are always repercussions for it.

I wish someone will tell this young teenagers to slow down, they are moving too fast.

They are going through allot this days because they are not matured enough to be doing and handling some of the things that they are putting themselves through.

A young boy of seventeen wants to be a billionaire at all costs and the funny thing is that he is not willing to put in the required work.

At that age, they are already dating girls that are tasking them heavily and in a quest to provide and prove that they are men enough, they result into doing all manners of things putting allot of pressures on themselves.

A young girl of that age has already been through a lot through the hands of different men and sometimes they are getting depressed and totally drained both mentally and emotionally and the only consultation they have now is running to dr*gs, alcoh0l and all sorts of sm0kes.

As I grow older, I realized that all the things that almost k1lled me at that young age should not have even happened in the first place.

As I get older I realized that our parents were only trying to protect us from involving in this that were going to completely d£stroy us.

Some of us, na just grace we get and even with that, we are still paying for some of the mistakes we made.

And since we have seen how all of this plays out, we can at least let others learn from our experiences because they might not be as lucky as we are.

If you refuse to take heed, be ready for the consequences because sooner or later, you will dance to the beat of the music that you are composing now.
By Gladys Adija Markus