03/03/2017
THE NEW ERA (THE AGE OF THE CREATIVE)
Way back when I was younger and still received several ‘sermons’ from my dad, there was this particular talk that captivated me and got me thinking. It was this one about everyone in the village until their youth being farmers, it sounded funny to me but all I had then was a mental image of my dad with a farming hoe to his neck which was quite hilarious.
Fast forward several years later I’m seeking admission into the higher institution, one that wasn’t too big a deal back in the day, my dad told me that to get into the university then all they needed was their GCE results as long as it had decent grades (3 credits was fine then).
So I began to wonder why 8 credits and a jamb score well over 200 couldn’t get me an admission to study engineering as he’d wished me to. I was eventually admitted to study climate science anyways I was unbothered about it, I didn’t like it neither did I like engineering, I thought they were all boring. But then again what was interesting to me?, Fashion.
I’d always wanted to style myself, my friends and I even wished there’d come a time I’d create clothing that others would wear, an idea of what style would look like, Fashion was an alternate universe for me it was what I felt cool was and it was quite different from what my other colleagues at school had had in mind. Initially it was quite tough to deal with but I became alright with the mixed reaction.
‘Different’ hadn’t always been cool. Well, not until the subject becomes successful. As ages go by, the concept and values we’d held a certain time has to be challenged, there should be an understanding that there was a time when farming was cool and the idea of luxury was ‘owning several cows and farmlands’. Times changed, having a degree and working a job became the new cool. Luxury transcended to having several houses, cars and properties. This new generation has decided to influence the world and not just live in it, not just take whatever is handed to them, not settle for what life’s given them.
The new youth have decided that rather than just live the life handed to them they’re instead going to embrace it, change it, improve and make their marks on it, to be creators rather than just followers, because that’s the new cool. It’s a new era, the age of the creative.
