Have you ever asked yourself that question?
One of the biggest challenges that leads to frustration and unfulfilled adulthood is that many people are busy pursuing paths they never truly planned for.
Walk into our universities today and you will see it. Classrooms full of young people who are not there because they have a clear vision. They are there because “everybody is going to school” and they don’t want to be left out.
They are not there to master a skill they will build a life on. They are there mainly to get a certificate. A paper. A proof that they too “went to school.”
Five years in school.
Five years of copying notes that may never be applied.
Five years of chasing grades for a career you may not even want.
Five years of investing resources that could have been put to better use.
Then after graduation, many spend just a few months learning a completely different skill that eventually becomes their real career. So why spend five years without direction?
I have sat in lecture halls with people who had no clear idea why they were there. They were not lacking in ability, they were simply influenced by a society that pressures everyone to follow the same path, and by parents who unintentionally encourage a herd mentality.
You must be a graduate. If not, you will be laughed at.
So many go to school without purpose, graduate without direction, and start life feeling behind.
This is why many adults, people who should be building and producing, are still saying:
Abeg, I never start life oh… I’m still a student.
When did we decide that “being a student” means putting your life on pause?
When did we forget that being a student should mean you have already started building the life you want?
We are producing many graduates with certificates but without practical skills. People who can write excellent essays but struggle to write an invoice. People who spent years learning how to pass exams and little else.
This pattern is generational. Some parents encourage children to study courses they have no passion for “because there is a job there.” Some young people enter school because “my mates are entering.” Four years later, they are back home, CV in hand, with confusion and frustration.
And then we wonder why so many graduates feel broke, bitter, and disappointed.
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Here is the hard truth:
- A certificate without vision is an expensive receipt for years you will never get back.
- University without purpose can become a cycle of frustration.
- If you don’t know where school is taking you, you are not truly in school, you are in a very expensive waiting room.Discuss this with your parents this week. It is time to find out if you are simply following a roadmap created by a generation that may not fully understand what the world has become.
Disclaimer: This article as published on the author’s Facebook page and the views expressed do not reflect the views of HeraldGH.
