decision making

Making good decisions

Your decision making skills as being part of the youth is very crucial and hard, the hardest part of all is trying to make good life choices without having to disappoint your parents.

My teachers always told us that you have to have some idea of what you want to be when you grow up as soon as you reach matrix, and they used to indirectly put pressure on us by making us write these long essay's about what we want to be when we finish tertiary, were you want to be in life in the next 15 years. Well believe it or not, throughout my years in primary and high school, I changed my career choices almost a hundred times, from wanting to be a psychologist to wanting to be a social worker and now I'm sitting in a journalism class studying to be one of the best journalist in South Africa and I am happy with the choice I've made. Yes my family and friends thought that it was a little outrageous and that I would not be able to crack it but being the person that I am, I followed my heart and I did what I felt would make me happiest because at the end of the day, your are the one who is going to be living from day to day with that job not your family and definitely not your friends.

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Do not make big life changing choices based on where your friends will be.

Life is really easier when you have your friends with you all the way, but at some point you have to be apart, you cannot be together for the rest of your lives, you have to grow up at some point in time. Don't worry when you and your friends start to show interest in different things, you are growing up and it's a good sign.

If you are in your 20's and you feel like you haven't reached the point were you wanted to be, do not panic, relax, you are were you have to be. Your 20's is all about making mistakes and bumping into hardships throughout your journey so make the mistakes that you have to, but the most important part of all is learning from them, solving your own problems and being independent. I know that you feel like I'm just yapping away but I am also speaking from experience, I am 23 years old and I too felt like a failure, sitting in class with 19 year old's in 1st year made me feel frustrated and that I wasn't going anywhere but I came to realize that we cannot all reach success at once and you  know what they say, save the best for last.

The problem with the youth is that we tend to rush things for the wrong reasons, we do things for the wrong things also, because most students find themselves following the wrong career paths and now I'm happy to say that I am glad that I took my sweet time, I'm glad that I gave myself a chance to take a deep breath and reflect on what I want for myself.

Don't rush things based on your age, friends or pressure from your family and take your own sweet time in finding out what your true calling is.

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Do the things that you have to do now and the things that you want to do later

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 There is always a reason for everything you do in life, well the same applies to the youth of today, the born frees as we are called. The youth of today is three times more troubled then we were in the past. We are exposed to too many things mostly bad.

One of the reasons why the youth gives in to alcohol and drug abuse is because it is easily accessed, those who do not do drugs choose not to. We are not motivated to do good in this world because of the things that we are exposed to, the fact that the new generation is messed up has started somewhere, it has a pattern that can almost not be explained, because you cannot really say that is starts at home or the way that you were raised but it is how you want to portray yourself and how you want to live your life because it is yours and the way you live it is entirely up to you, it all comes down to YOU and nobody else but  you. Everything you do, you do because you wanted to not because your parents or your friends forced you to.

The term peer pressure is just an excuse we use to make ourselves feel better, to make us feel like we do not do what we do because we chose to out of our own free will but because we were "forced", so I say that there is no such thing as peer pressure, it is just a word. We live in a generation were teenage pregnancy is not a big issue anymore, were young children who haven't even reached the puberty stage promote themselves to being mothers, I can only imagine how our children's children will turn out to be. I say that the only way from this doomed world is when judgement day comes to action.

The most painful  thing is that the youth has to fight for every little thing, we had to fight for free education, because government fails to recognise that free education is merely a privilege but more or a less a right

 It is a huge shame that we as the youth do not see the power that we have in our hands, it's a shame that we choose to not use the little opportunities that is being put before us to our advantage, we have to stand together and claim what is rightfully ours, and stop wasting our time on useless things that will still be there in the next 20 years or more.