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In my mid-late teenage years, I’ve lived out almost every single day in solitude asking myself if I’d ever be enough, wondering what the future holds, and sometimes listening to soulful songs just to lay off thoughts that seemed too heavy for my little mind.
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I have always carried a heavy heart like the burden of a destiny meant to be fulfilled by a hero but lived like a villain sometimes just so I don’t feel too responsible for the life I didn’t choose for myself. I won’t go into full details about my background but in my family,
I am a pillar, a voice that must be heard whether I like it or not, and a fire that must not quench out. I am not allowed the luxury of failing at any stage in my life so I’ve had to put in extra work to maintain an aura of a reliable man, which is something that a lot of
young men like me out there go through as well. I do not intend to downplay the troubles of the female folk but in my society, the male folk have it so tough in that there is usually few to no shoulders to lean on and hardly anyone to pat one’s back and say ‘You’re doing a great
job.’ It’s always about what you can offer and hardly about how you’re coping with little to no resources to keep a stable life. I’m in my 20s now and in the past few years, I’ve made a quite an amount but as a struggling adult, have not been able to keep every single acct. of
how I’ve used it to handle a lot of things, which include health issues, school ‘wahala,’ rent, food, friends and loved ones, etc. Notwithstanding the fact that I’ve had to endure harassments from SARS officers who only see youths as another source of income, under this
same failed government that I have stopped believing in a long time ago. Now my point is that, a lot of us young men out here struggle and care so much for others without paying deserved attention to our mental well-being or seeking attention from anyone.
That attention isn’t even guaranteed since everyone has something going on for them. And then you’re expected to ‘man up’ and know what to do even though you have no idea what tomorrow may present, especially in a country where every young man’s life is always at risk.
And yeah, this thread is speaking for every young Nigerian man out there struggling to become something out of little or nothing. It would not be too much to say we deserve at least a ‘Well done’ for being selfless since all we go through isn’t mostly for ourselves. Do
not put down any young Nigerian man for petty reasons, do not downplay our efforts, and do not call us self-destructive for not saying how we feel. We were conditioned this way but I tell you, we’re doing our best to let it out.
Thanks for your time and do not forget to RT for every young Nigerian king out there. 
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