Many a times, I wonder why we believe that war and death in
our environs are the major factors that sabotage peace, tranquillity and
happiness of the youth, especially the children, in the world we reside in. But
from my personal experience, I have observed that the incessant exposure of the
youth to all forms of promiscuity is a lingering and serious issue of our era.
It is a well-known fact by all and sundry that the future can only be defined
by the success and intelligence of the youth in a particular community. But if
the mind of the youths is filled with licentious act in all forms, I wonder how
the future will be. A considerably large chance is that it will be blurring
like the problem the German youths had in the mid 80’s due to excessive
drinking of alcohol, which resulted in their defeat to the Soviet Union.
The storage capacity of the brain is so massive that it
enshrouds ideas and initiative to make the world better. It also gives room for
any other thought which is based on man’s experience. Man have been created in
such a way that when he gets to the period of youthful exuberance, many
internal energy is generated; the zeal to succeed; the zeal to invent; the zeal
to love and the zeal to be loved. This is the natural instinct of man. He
nurtures this from birth through youthfulness to senility. But the climax of
intelligence is when he is young. The tendency to be curious and to inquire
sets in. But in the midst of this, technology comes in. The advent of
technology heralds virtues and vices for the youth. Unfortunately, he tends to
hold on to the vices thus causing distraction.
A part of the side effect of the above decision is the
indulgence in sexual act, in reality or virtually. Youths are now threatened by
the kind of fashion we censure nowadays. The mode of dressing is so displeasing
to the heart but tempting to the body that almost 70% of the world’s youth have
sunk into the world of fantasy thereby substituting the intuition to think,
read and solve the world’s challenges with sexuality in its negativity. In my
environment for instance, it is no more a news to hear that a 13 year-old girl
got pregnant for a 15 year-old boy. This is a dark future for our generation
and it must be alleviated to the minimal. The terrible thing about this sexuality
problem is that once you connect a certain strong desire to it and you get
somehow hooked on it, you will find it easy to return to it-even though you
showed remorse after perpetrating the act. The avenue of knowledge has now
become the arena for porn viz TV, radio, internet, music and to mention but a
few. No song is sang in our era except that it is cocooned with half-nude
ladies exposing their endowment, all in the name of marketing.
I dream of a future where the world will be free from all
agents of promiscuity, where the minds of the youth will be focused to know
that we, the youth are the saviour of the future. We can’t afford to lose
focus; we can’t afford to die being a loser. We don’t want to be a liability to
the world but an indispensable asset. Mother Earth will even be proud of us.
Yes, we can!!!
