Life after Secondary School
Life after Secondary School is like that of a honeybee [female] taking a nuptial flight from its colony to start another colony where it would be the queen. Imagine the female bee leaving its friends, leaving its neighbours and most important its family. The bee takes a nuptial flight from its lovers to face the challenges of life.
It is same with man. The nuptial flight for man is similar to graduation ceremony.
A graduation ceremony from teachers’ whips
What’s next after secondary school?
A graduation ceremony from puerile gossips
A graduation ceremony from friendly and fiendish mates
A graduation ceremony from the PTA meetings palavers.
A graduation ceremony from Inter-house sport competitions
A graduation ceremony from being sent home for school fees
A GRADUATION INTO LONELINESS!
Life after secondary school is neither sweet nor bitter. It is whatever you make it. That you are a Secondary School Leaver does not mean that you are fulfilled. There are greater challenges ahead of you. Like the female bee, you have your own challenges of life right in front of you. You have the challenge of preparing for life alone; waiting for your academic results or even preparing to write further school examinations. During the Secondary School days, it is common to have an ambition. The question always stands that: ‘What would you like to do in the future?’ Perhaps there is hope for you to further your education. Then that time of loneliness is the time to make or mar that hope. Actually, everyone wants the best and no rational being would willingly mar his or her future. But the styles you apply to the challenges of ‘after-secondary-school’ would determine its being made or marred. You have to utilize the stay-home period for your best.
As a boy, the major challenge is to seek pleasure. To seek pleasure of wealth, women, and sports or joining the bandwagon of the society. You know birds of the same feather flock together. One would find it difficult to stay at home while ones mates are travelling here and there for some adventure or hunting for money.
One may find it impossible to close ones eyes when evil girls around are broadcasting their ‘beauties’ or when ones mates are happily flirting around proclaiming their maturity and freedom.
One may not be able to bear the pressure of joining the boys around. Joining them to play games, take some stroll or act as political thugs during campaigns and elections.
In respect to the above, the future is marred if one later breathes behind bars, maybe caught with some hoodlums. The future is marred if one must stay at home to cater for an impregnated girl (as wife) or father a coming baby. The future is marred and all hope is lost, if perchance, one losses one’s life during some devilish activities.
As a girl, there are numerous challenges as well. The challenge is there to travel out from one’s local area to urban places so as to get wide and wild knowledge of life. The challenge is there to fall victim to the approaches of lascivious boys and men both successful and poor deceitful ones. The challenge is there to jump into the entertainment industry. A little dance and much money! In some cases, the urge may be there to lay your hands on some drugs, stimulants and inappropriate items (e.g., cannabis, caffeine, and dildos).
Corresponding to the challenges, the future may get marred if you travel far and wide, then you return to see your local mates ahead of you and you are lagging behind. It is usually like film-trick. One’s life is marred with oneself if one finds oneself in a cassava farm, through with a pregnancy, toiling and sweating for daily bread. It will be very bad to be marred, to be impregnated, and one cannot identify any boy or man that is responsible for the pregnancy. Life is marred, despite gaining money from the entertainment industry, when one becomes useful for nothing and the beauty is fading away. In the entertainment industry, it is pretty sure for girls to become either mild or hardcore prostitutes. No staying in the middle. And with the emergence of STDs, if one’s life gets terminated no hope remains.
Best things to do as a hopeful ‘School Certer’ are to utilize the lonely times properly, read books that will be useful for your future career. In this age of information and communication technology (ICT), one should see it worthwhile to learn the usage of the internet and gain from its resources. Many admissions, registrations and even payment of school fees are now online based. One should find means of growing along with the positive development of the world. Cyber cafes are there for one to spend the lonely days. It should also be in one’s mind that the internet is a weird wild web. If you do not know what are doing, you may end up in dating, sport or games websites and nothing fruitful, educationally would be achieved. However, in our country where there are no government benefits, there are many students sponsoring their education themselves. For young ones in this category, the nuptial flight may be into sessions of hard labour and the money earned would be used to manage their plights.
Many due to poverty are having no opportunity to continue their education. Ones future, in this is wise, is not marred. One should not fall victim of the discussed challenges, but one should be wise and workaholic. There are seminars here and there in the cheap prices that can make you a big entrepreneur, with or without much education. Major thing to do is to be current.
Life after secondary school, as discussed above, is neither sweet nor bitter. It is in your hand, you have your choice to make it or mar it. Your graduation should be a step into positive actions for you to have successful reactions.
