31/03/2022
The photocopy machine at my place was bad so, I went to a nearby documentation to print the document I needed to .
Therein, I met this girl who was also trying to print a document. But there was a problem. They couldn't find her file on the computer even though she enabled file transfer.
So, they proposed another option, but the girl couldn't get it, they proposed another and she was like please I don't know me all these things in the phone .
I only know my WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.(uploading photos, following celebs etc) when she said this, Cut in the quick; I was shocked not cos she doesn't know these things but she knows Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram etc.
Thunderstruck, I stared at her, wanted to squelched but the Jesus girl in me..
This wasn't even a perception for me to grin at; so I merely shrugged.
I don't know if, her not knowing was cos she isn't lended which, I don't think so, cos she could read and write but knowing those stuffs isn't her kind of knowing but media?yes!
I didn't bother asking, cos even if I did, her answers will dangling at something unreasonable from the way she spoke.
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See many of us are like this young girl I met. We claim we're an Android generation, but nothing is android about us. We're the software age but things are instead hard on us.
Some of us have good phones with data connection every minute and second yet,we can't construct a perfect complete English statement.
We keep updating status with errors, edited picture with wrong usage of words,but we've never thought it wise to correct ourselves.
What about speaking to people in public mmm sad case. We can't, not as if we're the shy type but cos we don't know what to say and when we can't even utter two or three words without mistakes.
I know mistake is human but are we even trying at all?
It's a calamictous SHAME that, despite what technology has place at our noses and feet we still don't do anything with it .
We're busy doing tiktok videos, catching cruise and chilling with the big boys but we can't hold a computer mouse.
There's Google
There's YouTube and other interesting sites to learn free skills but we ain't doing anything.
We know absolutely nothing!
Your parents send you to school but ain't doing anything beneficial to help them promote the sole proprietor business they're managing to pay your tuition and accommodation.
It's indeed a shame
It's a pity!
No one has ever gotten it all
Neither has any arrived but we should be in motion. If the life of Christ that flows through us,it's not stagnant but dynamic.
If you're in this category please change
We're all work in progress, however we're not permitted to be stagnant.
The narrative has changed
We now see beyond 🔥
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©Kelly Stephen Kinang
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