Still remember stepping off that British Airways flight on Thursday March 28, 2013 to start a new life in Nigeria. It's been 7+ years but it feel like 2.

I was 23 at the time, now I'm 30 and several friends of mine are on their 2nd child.

That is how age creeps up on you.

I'm not one of those "Nigerians are unserious because they watch BB Naija" folks, but what I will say is that I hope none of you ever wakes up one morning to do the usual banter thing here, only to realise that you're no longer in the same generation with the banter folks.

Nigeria's median age is 17.9 (and statistically getting even younger) which is why the discussion register of TwitterNG in 2020 is the same as it was in 2012.

The banterers will always be here and they will always be young and carefree.

You however, won't. You're getting older

I've seen several people I once considered friends completely fail to make the jump from "youth" to the next phase. Their stories aren't mine to tell.

I pray the universe grants all of us the good sense to know how finite time is.

Many of our parents made this exact same error, laughing and bantering their way through the 70s and 80s. Then they woke up one day in their 40s and suddenly realised that they were unhappy, getting poorer, and living in a dreadful country. Only then did the penny drop.

They then spent the next 15 years trying to make up for their own unseriousness and lack of engagement. Suddenly they wanted to watch the news everyday and take an interest in politics and governance. Suddenly they became our unpaid lecturers bending our ears with admonitions.

Most of us here are in our 20s. I hope we know that you will sleep and wake up, then suddenly you're 35 and the person you're retweeting is 21 and you're no longer the culture setter or the determinant of what is cool.

That's the horrible thing that time does to everybody.

Don't become our parents.

Please.

You are getting older.