THE PRESSURE TO GET MARRIED AT A CERTAIN AGE IS UNECESSARY

Listen, I don’t know who issued this “statistical calendar”, but something is definitely wrong with them…This pressure that we have believed and passed down to generations is unhealthy and ultimately ridiculous.

We need to normalize setting our own life agendas, calendar, and aspirations “by ourselves”, not influenced, manipulated, or pressured by any living things…..gbògbò yèn kò neccestri ràrà

I’m certain this isn’t the first time you’re hearing this, but I just feel a need to remind you this morning, because una no dey hear word”

Date for as long as you need to, have those kids 5yrs after the wedding if you want, get engaged 2 months after meeting each other, buy that car when you have the money, build that house when “God don cut soap for you”……in all thy doing, do it on your OWN TERMS biko!

All these rat race needs to stop, you need to start learning to enjoy life on the way to where you’re going, the fact that your happiness is hinged on a destination is preposterous. If you buy the house at 21 or 45, na you still get am, if you marry at 25 or at 46, you’re still someone’s wife/husband at that time, them no dey catch late comer……

Try to dey kam down abeg, because all these problems na, na Desmond Elliot cause am o