EDITORIAL: Women easy targets for drug trafficking
The pressures of social media glamour, where young people feel the need to keep up with others by creating a false narrative about their social life and status, is a serious pandemic.
To post photos about vacations or baecations that involve an intimate partner, fine dining and international travel has become obsessively fashionable, especially among young women.
New phenomena such as so-called ‘girlfriend allowance’ and narratives about not dating ‘broke men’ are all offspring of this insatiable desire to parade a life of glamour where it, in actual fact, does not exist.
Like everything else in life, this unsustainable, short-term behaviour has an expiry date. If your preoccupation in life is with staging photoshoots of dinners and wine, to the extent that this has become a distraction to chasing your dreams, the consequences will be dire.
By the time one realises that life has spat them in the sand like a chewed piece of gum that has lost its taste, it may be too late. By then, days will have turned into weeks, and Marches into Mays. Invitations to exquisite dinner dates will dry up, and so will free iPhones and wrapped candies.
The free rides to ‘mafuta’ will have dried up like the Etosha salt pan in drought season, and so will friend requests on social media.
With this reality, some extreme propositions – such as being used as a drug mule – may become tempting. Because your kids - who were conceived from one night stands and whose fathers you can barely remember - need to eat.
Leave social media sideshows and chase your dreams!
To post photos about vacations or baecations that involve an intimate partner, fine dining and international travel has become obsessively fashionable, especially among young women.
New phenomena such as so-called ‘girlfriend allowance’ and narratives about not dating ‘broke men’ are all offspring of this insatiable desire to parade a life of glamour where it, in actual fact, does not exist.
Like everything else in life, this unsustainable, short-term behaviour has an expiry date. If your preoccupation in life is with staging photoshoots of dinners and wine, to the extent that this has become a distraction to chasing your dreams, the consequences will be dire.
By the time one realises that life has spat them in the sand like a chewed piece of gum that has lost its taste, it may be too late. By then, days will have turned into weeks, and Marches into Mays. Invitations to exquisite dinner dates will dry up, and so will free iPhones and wrapped candies.
The free rides to ‘mafuta’ will have dried up like the Etosha salt pan in drought season, and so will friend requests on social media.
With this reality, some extreme propositions – such as being used as a drug mule – may become tempting. Because your kids - who were conceived from one night stands and whose fathers you can barely remember - need to eat.
Leave social media sideshows and chase your dreams!
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