AGE AND MORALS

Dipupo Osanyin: ---AGE AND MORALS

Age as we all know refers to the number of years that a person has lived or a thing has existed and morals on the other hand is concerned with principles of right and wrong behaviours.

So it is literarily expected that as one increases in age ones moral at the same time should be developing concurrently, however we know that in the real sense it doesn’t work that way as you see and hear of elderly ones doing some nasty things the younger generation are not supposed to be doing. I can vividly recall the story of a man in his late sixties and a grandfather who defiled and raped a 12year old girl in Lagos. To anybody hearing this, you wonder what was running through the man’s mind when he was carrying out this shameful and dastardly act.

Another instance is the disgraceful acts of National assembly who engage themselves in physical combat in the full glare of the press like rogues and tyrants all in the name of fighting for what is right, which in turn causes a lot of havoc. I saw a clip of one of their numerous encounters where a member had to be rushed out by the emergency crew after collapsing upon receiving a punch from a ‘pissed’ colleague. Another member’s cloth was also torn as a result of the fight. I had to ask myself what kind of message these people be passing across to their children concerning fighting when their own numerous fight encounters are openly broadcasted on National T.V and has gone viral on the internet.

It’s quite fascinating when you read about young folks doing wonderful things at a very tender age. I read about a 13year and 14year old secondary school kids sometimes last year who invented a urine powered generator in Lagos. For someone at that age to do something as marvelous as that, it is sure that when that kid grows older, he or she will do more amazing things.

The question now is; Does the older generation lack morals and the younger generations are more morally upright or what might actually be the problem?