The Unseen Terrorist

One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is the large scale availability of half truth’s and manipulated facts

One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to look vertically upwards

Drug cartels have taken the driver’s seat, training our young men and women on how best to self destruct, while the larger community watches on helplessly as these bands of renegades lead our people towards the path of self annihilation

I am constantly reminded that we are a products of the choices we make

Raped at age nine by a relative and pregnant at 14 Oprah Winfrey, like many others have experienced the wickedness and brutality of our society. Sadly, it’s an environment where blood lines no longer hold.

The lack of stringent laws and the inefficient prosecution of perpetrators have made it increasingly difficult for victims and their families to get the justice they deserve.

A planet without AIDS is possible, but to create that planet we must do away with the vestiges of the old planet where testing positive to the HIV virus effectively relegates an individual to the subclass of Human society

A complex world of intrigues and power play among couples has combined to deny young people the love and attention they truly deserve, more and more teenagers are leaving home to peer up with bad influence which eventually lands them in jail for the lucky ones and six feet under for the not so lucky.

Increasingly, the girl child is becoming an endangered specie as pedophiles’ continue to roam free in our societies terrorizing the lives of our children and stripping them of all the joy and excitement that comes with childhood.

Our society has made it extremely difficult for those living with the virus to declare their status

The stigmatization and the excruciating pains of social alienation have compelled most victims to conceal their status while the malevolent ones continue to distribute the virus free of charge to unsuspecting men and women

So many interests compete for our young people, from drug barons to sex traffickers who are constantly looking for ways to revive their ageing workforce

Telling yourself a lie is like putting a shot gun to your head and pulling the trigger, in both ways you end up destroying yourself

As the world confronts the challenges of globalisation, the entertainment Industry and a web saturated with explicit sexual content, is increasingly making it difficult for young people to make informed decisions about sex

, I have experienced firsthand how easy it is for a ten year old to obtain marijuana for next to nothing, this trend seems to have been taken to a new dimension with the abuse of pharmaceutical products especially prescription medicines in schools and communities, increasing the number of mentally and emotionally challenged men and women on our streets and diverting young people from classrooms and lecture halls to prisons and drug rehabilitation centers.

The tenure of human positions, no matter how highly exalted will eventually come to an end. Only Gods tenure is eternal

In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women in their prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero, emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medically paralyzed.

HIV is free, why pay for it

The Media and the internet have taken up the responsibility of molding the young ones amongst us, leaving us to pursue the careers we treasure.

If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then we must be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutches of those who seek to exploit their weaknesses

.Ensuring that young people get the right information that will enable them make the right choices is a responsibility all citizens must take seriously

The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people