The presence of patience for the youth.

In the past 2 years or so there are people I know to an extent that have been incarcerated for possible committed offenses while they are still  very young. 

Most involve money or were as a consequence of wrong associations. I’ve realized that in our youth we come to engage with different social classes and consequently people that are often older than us as young people. 

It’s a fact that youth are in that room but there’s a difference in the societal standing however that is  the circle you are  in as a young person. 

You see a lot in these times,  you see wealth, materialistic things, a life you could live or sometimes being way better off as opposed to your current standing.

This brings ideas in a young person’s mind to do something to elevate you to the societal paradigm of what you associate yourself with or the circle you keep a check on. 

You see you resolve to commit a crime because of the need to reach that stage, immediately for that matter.

What you don’t consider is this. You are young and it’s okay not to have it all or to have everything in order now.

Your twenties/youth are the times you use to build yourself into the room properly. There’s no need to rush into things and if you are at some point stuck you are still young enough to have your family look out for you, to go home and start over. 

To discuss a way forward into how to get yourself out of precarious situations. There’s no absolute reason to take a risk that will scar you for life.

Your youth is the time you have to build in, it is now that you have to make peace with not having it all but knowing the worth of what others have and being okay with working towards what you want CLEAN. 

But we take risks and end up in cells with criminal records for a long time/forever. 

To see people I grew up with as kids or have known since I was a kid be involved in crimes is sad especially where there is potential to be better. 

A quick fix will either be that or it will be the fix that breaks your life forever and society will never look at you the same way.

A conviction stays with you and bars you from many life opportunities while you haven’t even  reached the age of your prime.

I guess what I’m trying to say is at this point don’t let desperation or problems drive you to crime because if and when you are caught even that risk you took becomes pointless and ruins your life.

Allow your life to play out, if you laugh,you love, you’ve got family and you’re surviving now..: you are okay.

I’m saying this because you’ve reached the stage to discern as to what people have and what you have and you’re probably thinking of when your time will come or when you will get it.

Let time do it’s work but live on the right path, hustle, build and be content for greed and gluttony are deadly sins and they will bury you. We cannot have young people just going like that. 

There is more to you than a conviction;

There is more to you I say so please...

Stay out of crime and understand the growth process. 

Negative comparison is an omen so understand your journey and that not all are the same. 

Let it go and work on you please.

Go make your dreams come true yourself.

Real Talk.

Please share this with your family and friends ey. It's long but worth it.

To every young one that just started grade 12 or 10 today. People are failing and the numbers only seem to be increasing year by year. Don't start a new year with new uniform and worry about how shiny your shoes look or how short your skirt looks or how nice your blazer looks. These are material things bought by your elders with money most likely hard earned you see.

You go to school and instead of giving your all to your books you give your all to your friends, to your cliques and to the social evils that hold many people down. Some of you know you have great potential yet you ruin yourself with indulging into things that are not relevant; you fool around in class, you ignore doing homework you dodge classes, you become reluctant to take opportunities such as Higher level because of other peoples negative opinions yet these people are not you.

You fail to priorities and plan, you fail to set yourself a vision which is the same as planning to fail. The streets will embrace you nice, nice. You will become the talk of your hood, the shame in your family the laughing stock of your peers.

I don't know you personally but if you have reached this stage I know you care for who you want to be some day. Give your final year a little time ey, tell yourself you will become someone and work towards the achievements of those goals.

Let other people's experience be what teaches you, do not always have to fail in order to  pass. Yes! it is possible but you have a chance now and if you are blessed with opportunity, use it and go forward

Use your family, your aspirations, your dreams, your ambitions to be your inspiration and become someone. Break the chain of failure and be added to this years passing class percentage. Look at those who have gone before you and let their results be your fuel ey.

You are in school for many reasons but remember it is for yourself first and ey this does not mean the end of your social life, just set yourself straight divide the time and all will be okay.

Good luck for this academic year ey.
Go make your dreams come true.

#The_Philosopoher

The Conflicts of My heart and Mind.

I tried to understand the world and the choices we make.
I tried to put into line my thoughts that are too scattered for freedom.
Thoughts stolen by the gap in a reality of a father I never had.
A mother who went too soon to feel the wrath of  an only sons full achievement.
Thoughts stolen by a heart that knows not how to fully be bound without two like others for them .
Parents.

I tried to understand the world but my thoughts were stolen.
They were stolen by the girl that i first fell inlove with .
The one I wrote love  letters and met behind the classroom to hold hands and feel pure for.
The one that first taught me that love is a myth and hearts are for breaking and feeling
but some of us live out of this world when we're in it hence it's real.
The one that took off the eye cap of that beautiful lie and showed  me the ugly truth .
That people are selfish and your investment in their emotion is useless lest they too have invested equitably.

I tried to understand the world but my thoughts were stolen.
They were stolen by knowledge I didn't really have and a love to learn but sometimes curiosity often killed the cat.
I learned that drugs exist and they can take you away.
Blank out everything and bring about the best peace mountain for yout monk mind.
Meditation and Patience.
I also learned that it took you.
It took your weight your thoughts your schedule your lifestyle. 

Also the colour of your lips .

And left you with nothing but scorn from the outside world.

I tried to understand the world but my thoughts were stolen.
They were stolen by the call of the nightlife , the tune of the sound and the will to move. The drowning of sorrows in the noise and the sight of ridiculous joy.
The glitz and the glamour, the chills and the thrives.
I was taken.

I tried to understand the world but my thoughts were stolen
They were stolen by these network,
Your Facebook my snapchat, her insragram, and his Twitter.
They were stolen when I was proclaimed a keyboard warrior and formed part of the elite that sucked us further from humanity.
Placed is deep into our phones and plunged us deeper into the pit of emptimindedness.
I lost my table manners and came to forget that these things exist to bring us closer to one anothero but the bowl of isolation seems to melt into the depth of further solitude for each of us.

I tried to understand the world but my thoughts were stolen...
They were stolen for I am human and temptation was sold to me in worldy things and I bought it.
I paraded it in my existence and it tied to me as if it was created for me.

I tried to understand the world but my thoughts were stolen.
They were stolen by the quest for peace in my heart and the hope of a better tomorrow. 
The desire to be complete and  cries to be free.

I tried to understand the world but my thoughts were stolen
They were stolen by a reality that everything around was not meant to be understood and life was meant to make you stand under the veil of your own comprehensions protection.
I wanted to understand but my thoughts were stolen.

They were stolen by you, by the world , they were stolen because I had no safe.

So please tell me
how could I be safe.

When I could not understand.

Worthy!

You are a fighter.
You walk with the shadows but carry the light deep within you. 
You're a pure form of art, something like x  or pi...
The mathematics equation.
We just don't know.
Not everybody will understand you... but don't let that stop you.
Allow your light to spark the mind that changes the world.
Be the change you wish to see and live forever.
You are
Greatness
Forget that not.

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Side Note.

I've been writing stories with my life.
Been on a moonshine mission.
Doing the most here and there and surviving elsewhere.
I hope this place is your peace.
I hope in this realm you don't lose your voice.

Happiness.

If you are one that make other people's happiness a priority that supersedes your own.
Stop, re-evaluate the situation and see if the satisfaction garnered from there eases you. More often than not many shall admit we do things for other people's happiness.
The reasons are endless here...
[ insert yours here]

Personal satisfaction becomes a child in the eye of making sure x and y are happy.  Everything  you do will desire the acknowledgment of another only then at times will you feel the satisfaction . You become dependant on the need to have someone around in order to do something that makes you happy. That honestly ruins you.

True happiness isn't depentent on anyone but you.
You have to dissociate from the requisite of individuals to influence your peace. Love yourself with the love  of a god for their subject.
Live yourself with desperation that drives the force to change.
Perform regular introspections as they keep you aligned with your objectives .
You'll learn to take well care of yourself in those circumstances.
"If you change,  you don't remain the same'.
If you don't change, you remain the same".