Well, Not Sure How To Title This. Just Life Lessons I guess

byRoseblogger

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Updated 5 years ago

OK so as the title or the lack of indicates, I did not know how to title this post, I tried to be creative but It got too confusing and complicated so I gave up on the title. I just want to talk about life and I know this has nothing to do with WA, and I know that I should be doing my weekly SAC WA post but I have had this on my mind for a while and it has started bothering me so I will put it out there so I can have some peace in my head lol :)

What is this all about?

So what I am I talking about you ask? relax I am getting into it now, I want to talk about young people, I feel like young people of these days are so sensitive and their feathers are raffled by small issues that should not be stressing them to the extent that they are getting stressed.

I will give you an example Last year I received a very disturbing text from my cousin who is in her early 20s she sent me a text that red in parts and I quote" I am very stressed, I feel like my life is falling apart and I am suffering" the text was accompanied by the legendary crying emoji. For those who are not familiar with the crying emoji, it's the little crying face that people include in text to stress the seriousness of the situation.

I have to admit I am still learning about the meaning of some of the emojis, just the other day I send a text to my friend with the hand emoji and she replied asking me why I was giving her a slap in the morning lol see I though the hand emoji I used meant hi or hello, turns out it was the slap hand.

Going back to my cousin's predicament

OK going back to my cousin and her crying emojis, there were like ten crying emojis, OK so maybe I am exaggerating a bit but my phone screen was filled up with those little crying faces that look like each eye has a river flowing, I swear it's very serious when someone sends you those little things.

So, I tried to calm my dear cousin down and told her whatever catastrophe that has befallen her, we can find a way to fix it, so I settled my self waiting to hear the worst. So as my phone pinged indicating that I have received a text, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath and then with one eye shut, I half looked at the text and I couldn't believe what I saw.

See my cousin was in college studying to be a medical lab technician at the time, and they did face some difficult situations especially when they were doing their exams, there was a time she called me telling me that she was very afraid because that particular day they had to go and do some lessons at the part of the hospital where they keep the people who have passed away.

So I thought the text with crying emoji was something related to her studies and I was preparing myself to give her some words of encouragement, and I was also considering calling her mother (my aunt) so we can discuss this problem. So the text read something like this" the reason I am so stressed is that my hair is a mess and my nails are terrible and my friends and I are planing to go out and I don't have money to go to a nail salon and hair salon to get these things done.

Me in similar scenario

Rewind to me at the same age, I remember very well, it was on a Friday, I looked in the mirror and I did not like what I saw, my hair was a big mess, see African hair can get hard to manage and unless you have money to go to the braiders to get it braided, it can be a bit troublesome.

So I looked in my wallet and I only had little money, I had washed my hair and I could have gone to the hair salon and have my hair blow-dried which stretches the hair a little bit and makes it easier to manage but if the hair gets wet, it will go back to it's natural curly state.

I decided, to go to a Barber instead and he questioned my decision and asked me if I was sure that I I wanted to cut my hair and I said yes, so the Barber bless him he told me he will not cut all my hair off but he will trim it down to a more manageable length and that's what he did and that situation was taken care of.

did I go crying to anyone about hair or nails, no because to me it was just hair and I knew it will grow back I was not stressed at all.

To My cousin it was a catastrophe

But to my cousin, not being able to do her hair and nails was a big catastrophe that had be fallen my dear cousin, I honestly didn't know what to say, I just called my aunt and told her what her daughter had said to me.

My conclusion

In Africa and more specifically in Kenya where I am from, it's very strange that young people have become this way, because when I was growing up, we faced some serious issues but we persevered and life went on, but these days I find that the young people are so stressed over what to me seems to be small matters.

I mean walking long distance barefooted to go to school was not a big deal, and doing many chores like walking long distance to fetch water, and other things, but these days an in the case of my cousin, children are going to school with nice uniforms and shoes, they are picked up by a school bus, there is always lunch.

So I guess in some way Children have become so accustomed to having everything.

Don't get me wrong there are still children who are facing life challenges in Kenya and Africa at large, but many children and especially those who are growing up in urban areas and they have a stable life, they are just too sensitive, that's my opinion.

Thank you so much for reading this, please leave me a comment and share your views on these issues.

Thank you for your time.

Rose.