Growing up, the young were barely allowed to visit relatives and friends living thousands of miles away, in fact they could land into trouble with their parents if they ever mention traveling to their distant relatives’ places. But again, there was a bunch who got lucky and managed to fulfill their wishes, an experience which however, was limited to less than twice every year.
Although this kind of treatment from parents felt awkward, it justified their effort and protective
nature against the uncertainties of early exposure to the outside world. Thanks to the changing world, everything has taken a different trajectory since the youthful generation are now well informed thanks to civilization. I would say that exploring the outside space away from home helps young people to think beyond their noses.
Many teenagers have gotten the opportunity to move around and see what the world has to offer thanks to education. As a matter of fact, it is worth giving credit to educational systems for coming up with a criterion that ensures students are placed in learning institutions that are far from their respective homes. This practice contributes to a healthy psychological growth of the person in question. Sharing educational or working spaces with individuals from different backgrounds provides chances for young people to be open minded, responsible and above all visionary, traits which are key in the betterment of societies.
Exposure acts as a catalyst to the realization of full potential amongst the young people because a time is coming when the aged will no longer be fit to hold public offices. But will this young generation be ready to claim what rightfully belongs to them when the time comes?
Unfortunately, we are leaving at a time when exposure among the youth has been accompanied by too much freedom making the latter to lose focus. This explains why the present-day youths throng clubs and engage in alcohol and drug abuse. As if this is not enough, youths have now taken the lead in practicing sexual immoralities such as
pornography, prostitution et al. The same people the nation is counting on.
With certain decisions made at personal levels, it is often challenging to come to terms with the misdemeanors the youth decide to carry out. If these misdeeds by the young is succeeding in depriving the country the brains that could have been in the forefront in making desirable decisions and providing solutions to critical problems, then the future of the nation is doomed.
