Your Parents Owe You Nothing!!!

I was out with a friend of mine earlier this week, we went to visit his friend whom he said had graduated from the university about two years ago but is still looking for job.

He said that the guy had invited him to come for a drink, well I don’t love booze at all but I love the meat that comes with it and so off we went.

At the merriment joint where we sat and ate with some other friends of his, we started talking about graduation and life after school,  since I was still a student I did more of listening and asking questions.

But then I kept listening to these guys complain about unemployment and how hard the world is after you graduate. I almost got afraid of graduation but I rebooked myself immediately.

The guy that invited us, he said that he had been to many interviews and he had secured some good jobs but none of them were up to his standard, since his dad was very rich.

He said that he would not settle for a job that’ll pay him less than 800000naira per month with a car and accommodation. I didn’t want to interrupt him so I kept my cool.

He then went on to tell us how he has secured about 5 jobs in the past years and the best among them was supposed to pay him 400000naira and how he turned them down. This was unbelievable to me.

He then said that he can’t settle for less than what he wants and that he is waiting for his dad to settle him and give him enough money to start his own company or to give him a high rank in his family’s company.

Some of the other guys there also said the same thing, one even said that his dad owes him a lot for being his child and that he is waiting for his dad or “his old man” as he called it to give him his own share of his wealth or to give him connections into a big oil company.

I couldn’t hold it anymore, I didn’t even know when I said “do u think your dad owes you anything?”

They did get offended but I gave them all the advice I had for them, not minding who was getting angry or whatever, after that I stood up and left, I couldn’t stay with people that thinks like that.

Now my abled readers, PharoahSays that our parents owes us nothing. Bringing you into this world is good enough and if they even tried and raise up by themselves then you should thank them every day.

if your parents did more than raise you up by sending you to school then awesome!!, they have given you the greatest weapon which you can use to tackle life, it’s like the saying that says “teach a boy how to fish and you have fed him for the rest of his life”.

How can we the youth think that our parents owe us their hard earned money, what happened to you? Are you handicapped or what?

Why can’t you go out there and make your own money, trust me a parent would always respect a child that made 1000naira without taking a dime from them more than the child that made 100000naira with the money they gave him.

Parents you know are very watchful, when I wanted to buy my own phone which was supposed to cost 35000naira, I struggled hard to make up to 25000 naira and when I was still looking for another job which I can get that’ll pay me the remaining cash I needed, my mum called me and said “forget about that job, how much is remaining for the money to be complete?”

She was aware of my movements the whole time and believe me when I say that that’s not the first time this type of thing has happened.

Am not bragging or anything, in fact my boss started his huge company on his own, not minding that his dad is one of the richest men in my country and up till today, he still doesn’t ask his dad for cash no matter the condition.

Most of my co-workers do fend for themselves and that’s why I have soo much respect for them and so does their parents.

Please please youths of my generation, PharoahSays that it’s high time we understand that our parents fought tooth and nail to make their money no matter how rich they are and that they owe us nothing.

Stop showing off with your fathers car, go make some money and buy yours and you’ll be more proud of yourself.

Stop taking pictures of your father’s houses and fleet of cars and go make your own money. Believe me when you start making your own money, you won’t have time to take pictures of yourself. The media would do that for you.

Stop telling us how much your dad put in your account, tell us how much your client put there it’ll intrigue us more.

Stop bragging of how many honorary awards your dad receives every year, tell us how many you have received so far.

Stop telling us how many times you’ve been to the states on vacation with your dads money, tell us how many times your company sent your there as an appreciation of your hard work.

Don’t tell us how much people pay to talk to your dad, tell us how much people pay to talk to your personal assistant.

We don’t want to hear about your parents and their achievements, we want to hear about yours, what have done, how much are you worth?, what are your qualifications, we want to know about you, not your parents.

Finally, PharoahSays that every youth should aspire to beat every record set by their parents, every youth should aspire to be better than their parents were and not brag with what their parents have.

If you dad is a doctor become a professor,

If he is millionaire become a billionaire,

If he is an Olympics silver medalist, become an Olympic gold medalist.

If he was a drunkard, become a responsible man

If he was a thief, become a police man

If he was a professor, win a Nobel price

If your mum was the first woman on the moon, be the first on the star

if she was the first lieutenant, be the first general

if she was a good woman be better...

Please please my generation, Be better than your parents were because if you don’t surpass them, they’ll never give you the respect you want and so will people who are around you.

PharoahSays so!