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Seventeen and Passionate.
The truth is, at this age, teenagers want to do many things they've seen adults do.
They want to fix their nails. They want to dress a certain way they've seen some adults dress so badly. They want to plait certain hairstyles and do many things they've seen adults do. They want to use the same phone an adult uses. They desire everything an adult is doing.
They would like to live and be like some brothers and aunties they admired while growing up.
Should I say teenagers want to grow up so badly?
But as a teenager, what should you be passionate about at this age?
I was once seventeen and so many things occurred at this age, but I will share one with you.
Before I shared mine, I came across a video by thecoachlara on YouTube. She decided to share her story of how she had a child at nineteen, had fifteen abortions and had fourteen heartbreaks. But it all started when she had a boyfriend at seventeen and became pregnant.
I also came across a video of Davido's cousin on Instagram. Who spoke about the darkest moment in her life and revealed how she was pregnant at sixteen on a podcast show.
I remember coming across a nineteen-year-old girl's video on Instablog who claimed to love a particular guy who wasn't giving her an audience and decided to call him out when she realised she was pregnant.
For me, I knew I wasn't going to have sex as a teenager when at the age of thirteen my agric teacher at my school fellowship sang 2 Timothy 2 vs 21 into our ears.
'Keep yourself pure'.
And then told us the dangers that come with having sex at an early age. I didn't like all that she stated they get to face.
There is a song we all smiled and laughed at any time she was singing it. It says...
Don't break the gate, don't plug the thing. Divine intervention into our lives as teenagers.
Not sure if I can remember the song correctly, but now as an adult, I have seen how these mistakes shaped some lives.
Dear teenager, at this stage, one mistake without proper guidance as you continue to live can hold you back in life for a long time.
Sometimes it starts with having a boyfriend at an early age when you know nothing about sex and he tells you not to worry that you will both be fine. You know nothing about protection but he acts like he knows it all. You know nothing about becoming a teenage mother but he acts like he's got it all covered until you drop the news, and many of them run because they remember they've got a life ahead of them, and they didn't plan for that.
