The not-more than 16 something said, “The best way to keep your man is give enough sex because if you won’t then somebody else would.” The preacher had two more audience all of the same age group and still wearing school uniforms.
Now, my not-so-liberal upbringing hasn’t heard such preaching in my mid-thirties life, maybe, I wasn’t smart enough to have such smarter friends. Well, obviously I was scandalised. So much so that my mouth voluntarily opened and I managed to get some attention from my fellow passengers in the bus.
I couldn’t help eavesdropping for some more pearls of wisdom. She continued, “Honestly there are lots of women around you ready to steal your man if he has money.”
Oh my God! How come she had so much wisdom at such a young age when I was still in my diapers (when coming to relationships)? Every generation is smarter than the previous I am told but this generation Y is definitely wiser too.
I was impressed with her worldly wisdom but scared with the flooding of innocence at such a young age. Suddenly, I am petrified on the issues of raising a child and others issues attached with parenthood. I would like to intact my child’s innocence for as long as I can. Weren’t our parents lucky enough to be spared the worries of overexposure of the internet and mobile phones? They never had to wake up in the middle of the night and tip-toe silently to check on me about the content of my interest on the internet.
Like a friend of mine was worried about finding his elder daughter going through a social network site looking for the perfect way to kiss. It was a nightmare and he lost his sleep over the next few days till he could find an option to filter some sites. But then that isn’t full-proof.
On the contrary, I feel it was much easier for our previous generation to raise us kids with lesser intellect, made to live in our make-belief world. That is why they could think of having as many kids as they wanted while we plan, plan and have our handfuls with just two at the end.
Happy parenting to my generations!
