There is an exponential upsurge to get-rich-quickly among our youths.
This is mostly brought about by societal pressure, where they all want to display how successful they are and want to be celebrated.
There is that pandemic where every youth wants to ride an expensive car, own an expensive personal mansion, and wear luxurious brands.
Unfortunately, they want all this to happen overnight without working for it.
Most don't want to climb the ladder from the bottom. All they want is shortcuts in their path to success.
It seems like setting goals, being focused, working hard, learning, trusting the process, and persevering is a waste of time.
Sadly, this get-rich-quick syndrome to succeed overnight has forced them to do the unimaginable.
This desire for fast-paced results has pushed them to engage in shady deals, including internet fraud, armed robbery, and other villainous and atrocious activities.
It’s very worrying and disturbing for our youths to believe such deals and acts are quick and the best ways to attain their goals.
It's high time for them to do away with the microwave mentality.
They should understand that a single criterion cannot attain success.
Sadly, that is not the response they want to hear.
Our youths should know that hard work is the only hallmark and secret to success. Therefore, they must embrace hard work and be focused, honest, and patient since success is a step-by-step process.
If you can give various wealthy individuals a podium to air their stories on how they have succeeded, the chances are that they will echo that to be successful, you have to put in hard work, and making it is a step at a time.
Our youths should therefore cease instant gratification and shortcuts.
They should stop altering phrases like we will all die and legal or illegal, the goal is to succeed.
Such phrases will only continue making them be in a quest to get rich quickly.
Youths should start something small and put maximal effort into getting to the top rather than thinking of shortcuts.
Such shortcuts will not take you anywhere; they will only frustrate you, disappoint you, and can also be a pathway to an early grave.
Student, Maasai Mara University
Edited by Kiilu Damaris
