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All over the world, an increasing number of youths are becoming idle. The global economic recession has contributed to the global idleness by making it increasingly difficult to get a job, stay in a job and do profitable business. In the case of Nigeria, the recent ASSU strike left a lot very intelligent young people idle for a long time. The strike is extremely sad, for a country that seeks to be one of the top twenty economies by 2020. Vision 2020 must be the biggest “April fool”, if our government still puts such little value on education, as evidenced by the nonchalant attitude towards the strike. This blog post isn’t about criticizing the Nigerian government, even though I feel the need to make a few remarks. Rather this article is to warn against a very dangerous thing called Idleness. At the beginning of this post I hinted that a lot of youths had become idle because of factors outside their control (credit crunch and co). The truth is no one but yourselves can make you idle. Idleness leads to a lot of vices. I’m sure many of us have found ourselves idle for a prolonged period of time, and you can testify that it leads to mischief and negative actions. Not only is our capacity for self defeating actions increased, it also demoralizes and puts us in a rut. I would like to encourage that we try our best to never become idle. Even if the activity we would rather engage in is not available, we should take it upon ourselves to find work to engage ourselves. There are millions of opportunities to work for free. You are better of offering your services for free than sitting idle. Start taking some new classes, learning some new skills or volunteering with an NGO or for profit organizations. The most important thing is that you avoid the decay that comes with idleness, by not being idle. Equally important is our commitment to stay busy. Though you are doing the work to stay busy, do it like it’s the most important task. The time would eventually come when work you desire would become available, especially if we keep busy.

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