Salisu Umar - My Blog

From birth we tend to be controlled by parents. They feed and generally take care of us and most of all they try to determine our future – ‘no you won’t study the theatre arts, you shall study law’ – is something common to hear some parents say to their kids. But what right do the parents have to choose a career path for kids? The best they should do is guide, NOT choose.
If I say I want to make a career out of football, they can only guide, counsel and put me in a football school where I can get a combined knowledge of education and football, anything outside that is an encroachment and most definitely going overboard.
I don’t need me an accounting parent telling me to study medicine over something I have so much passion for, if they so much love law as to want their ward to study it, why didn’t they study medicine themselves? We should stand up to them and say no I don’t want what you want, I want what I want. Tempers may flare, emotions may rise and all but hey it’s my life and I know my personal SWOT, no one knows this for me.
After all, they have lived their life with little or no interference, I expect them to mind their business while I mind mine.