As I looked at class of 2016 this morning, I couldn't help feeling deeply saddened. I'm sad for so many reasons. Observing them I had an immense sense of loss. I doubt whether they realise how many opportunities they've allowed to go by unutilized. Opportunities that offered life changing experiences, ... ignored, unappreciated, missed, lost, gone forever!
My prayer is that on the eve of the most important exam of their life, they will be awakened by a much deeper sense of reality, knowing that they need to draw on every bit of strength within to resiliently rise above every circumstance posing a challenge to realising their short term goals of obtaining their senior certificates and in so doing unlocking the chances of a better life, beyond the restrictive boundaries of a life prone to all sorts of abuses, poverty, gangsterism, crime and all evils associated with these crippling realities. So help them God!