10 Stupid Things You Shouldn’t Do When You’re Young (Pt 2)

This is a sequel to yesterdays post and today, I’m sharing the remaining 5 stupid things you shouldn’t do when you’re wrong.  Read the previous 5 things here.

#6 – Enter into a Blood Covenant

No matter how in love you are right now, NEVER enter into a blood covenant or any kind of covenant for that matter. If love is not enough to keep you both, a covenant is not enough either. Moreover, making such a covenant just gives the devil a platform to manipulate circumstances to ensure you both break the covenant and suffer the consequences. The only covenant you should enter into for love should be a marriage.

#7 – Enter into a Shrine for any Reason

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Oya, hold your ears: NEVER ENTER A JUJU SHRINE FOR ANY REASON. Period!!! Whether you’re just accompanying a friend, someone accused you of something and wants you to swear an oath there, you want to “inquire” on something or get something to make your business or relationship work better, NEVER go to a shrine. That singular action of stepping you into a shrine opens you up to evil spirits and assorted evil manipulations to start working in your life. If you think I’m wrong, ask your pastor. You have your whole life ahead of you to jeopardize it this way.

#8 – Hook up with Strangers in Secret Places

Yea, I know you can take care of yourself, after all you’re no longer a baby. If you have to meet up with strangers or acquaintances in strange places, make sure to tell at least one person close to you where you’re going to and who you’re going with, just in case anything happens. Even if it’s your “boyfriend” or “bossom friend” you’re going to a strange place with, always make sure at least one person knows. Friends and boyfriends have led people to their untimely death, you know. A word is enough for the wise.

#9 – Get Involved with Married Men

Okay, Okay; say whatever you feel like about dating married men. But the truth is: when you date married men, it creates an aura around you that eventually hurts you in future, despite all you think you may gain. That aura becomes like a spiritual perfume or sign board that attracts only married men looking for a booty call to you and blinds single guys to you which will leave you in frustration by the time you’re ready to settle down. To understand this more, read Juanita Bynum’s book No More Sheets.

#10 – Prove Your Love via Sex

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 As long as the earth remains, this cliché will be used “If you love me, prove your love for me”. And then all the pressures to prove your love via sex begins. Don’t be deceived; that has always been a punch line to get ladies to have pre-marital sex. Sex has never been a proof of love. Despite how much he threatens to leave you or get it from some other girl, even if you give in have sex with him, he will still leave you and get another girl when he’s through with you. Wise up; it’s the testosterone speaking, not love. 

Voila! Those are the stupid things you shouldn’t do when you’re young because like a boomerang, they will come back to bite you in nasty places in your future. The choice is now yours to make. If you still choose to be entangled in them, get ready to stomach the consequences in future. May God give us all the grace to make the right choices at each point in life. Xoxo. Have a smashing weekend.

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10 Stupid Things You Shouldn’t Do When You’re Young (Pt 1)

There always this feeling that accompanies that stage of life when you’re young and care free: you want to try out almost everything that’s in vogue for the fun of it. There’s usually little or no thought or worries about the future and how our present actions can affect it; after all, the future will take care of itself shey? Today’s post is dedicated to those who are “young by age’ or “young at heart” who still live life like there’s no tomorrow experimenting with every new fad around and making thoughtless decisions. As you “enjoy” your life, here are 10 stupid things you should’t try. Why? They’ll come back to bite you in the butt tomorrow. Leggo!

#1 – Take a Nude/Incriminating Picture

 With the advent of camera phones and the fun of taking selfies for the fun of it, the easiest thing to do is to strike a pose and go click click. So, you take a nude picture and save it on your phone (or your beaus phone) with a phone lock, or you even post it to some internet site. Fast forward to ten, fifteen years later; you’re now somebody of value and your nude pics comes out to hunt you…you pay huge sums of money to your blackmailers over and over again or you face the scandal…Such a stupid move to make now!

#2 – Do a Sex Tape

I know you’re so in love with whoever you’re with now and so the temptation of doing a sex tape since you will eventually get married and it’s your personal phone looks like a good option. What happens when one thing leads to another and your sex tape goes viral? Shame and embarrassment without measure is what you’ll get.

#3 – Sex Chat

These days, all these social media apps have turned people to elenu chatty chatty (chat freaks). In addition, they’ve also included sex chat to the whole mix due to the nasty requests made by for nude pics. Don’t do it baby, even if he’s your boyfriend. That is what those other ladies thought and their nude pics started flying all over the internet. 

#4 – Get a Tattoo or Awkward Piercings

 Yes it’s your body and you have a right to do as you please plus you’re young and carefree and these two things are in vogue now. But the truth is, a few years from now, you’ll be fed up with those tattoos and piercings but it would be too late to take them off. Not to talk about the countless doors of opportunities it will most likely shut for you. Despite what you think, in official circles (which you would be involved in future) showing up with a tattoo or piercing automatically screams “irresponsible” and makes you lose juicy business opportunities etc.

#5 – Sign Contracts without Seeking Counsel

Whether is a recording contract, modeling contract, partnership contract or whatever, when you’re young, make sure you seek counsel from knowledgeable adults and let them accompany you to the signing of the contract. This will keep you from being cheated and mortgaged into quasi-slavery via those terms and conditions written in very tiny letters. No matter how they pressure you to sign the contract, as long as it’s not at gun point, always insist on talking to your “lawyer” (it mustn’t be a real lawyer but someone who is knowledgeable that can give wise counsel) first.

P:S Phew! That’s enough for one day. Catch the remaining 10 stupid things you shouldn’t do when you’re young tomorrow. Xoxo

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