By Victory Williams Etiyene
Young people are the greatest asset and future of every nation. Therefore, they must be considered in societal decision-making and politics, among others.
Young people are supposed to be fun-filled and work with great enthusiasm while enjoying their youthful exuberance. It’s the best time to prepare for a bright future and if the road is missing at that very stage of life, one may unlikely have another opportunity to make a difference in life. We should utilise this rare opportunity and make our lives productive, impactful and plan for better days ahead.
Unfortunately, it’s sad how young people nowadays have engaged in having negative thoughts that the only way to measure up with their peers is to involve themselves in social vices and illegal acts that will certainly end up destroying their future.
Consequently, many young people get depressed, become anxious ensure low self-esteem, and get disappointed in their current achievements because they feel they are not doing enough. This is very dangerous because they even go as far as having suicidal thoughts because of what they see social media, there is “Behind the scene” for every social media success story which they won’t show you, a life of deceit, lies fraudulent and deceptive character that is valueless and a menace to society.
Ideally, cyberspace, the internet, and, social media, in particular, were created to ease communication and to stay connected with friends and also meet new people, but so many young people now see social media as a platform for crime and mishaps, when a young person spends excessive time on social media and you will develop feelings of frustration and low self-esteem.
Therefore, it’s time we rethink and re-examine our online habit, we should learn to know that what we are seeing on social platform are mostly fake and should not draw most of our attention.
We are unique in our ways than most of us thought we are, so we should not be carried away by the activities of social media ranters, instead, let’s focus on more important matters affecting our growth process. So should we celebrate ourselves in real life not social?
Furthermore, it’s high time we took a break from social media and start planning our lives by setting up goals we want to achieve in a year or two, get into business, and start vocational training on any handwork we desire. Be diligent and committed to your work, and surround yourself with positive people who inspire you to work hard and not those who are discouraged and would put you down.
To crown it all, young people should learn how to make use of their precious time and avoid spending much on social media platforms because that has catastrophic consequences on them as individuals and society at large.