My hot take is that people are actually marrying too late.
All things being equal, you should be married by 22/23.
Na economics dey make all these things take long.
And I have a few reasons.
1. If you are supposed to remain a virgin till marriage (for both sexes), then it is very unrealistic to expect someone who started puberty at 14-16, to wait another 15 years.
2. You are supposed to learn your spouse together in marriage. All your firsts, are supposed to be with your spouse. But when you have had too many relationships, it becomes really really hard to unlearn and relearn with your spouse. You become a collection of patterns and habits formed with different people, and your spouse bears the brunt of all those experiences
3. If you plan to have children, the earlier the better. But in terms of health, and in terms of longetvity. Having your first kid at 35, means that you will be attending their uni graduation at 50+, and if you have multiple kids, you might retire before you are done training the. Meanwhile, if you have your last kid at 35, you're esseentially done training your kids by 50+
So yes, marry early if possible
There is nothing you want to do outside marriage that you cannot do inside it.
🚨🚨 BREAKING: Neymar announces his RETIREMENT FROM INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL. 👋🏼🇧🇷
“I tried. I tried. It started here at Met Life stadium and I finished here. It is now over”, Ney said after the game.
His story with the Brazilian national team is over.
The quoted story is interesting: a first-class chartered accountant builds a real little bead business on the side while job hunting.
Her father ends it, says it isn't his vision for her, and tells her to focus. She does, and her career takes off.
The business wasn't the problem. It was good. It just wasn't the vision. The dad wasn't right because beads are beneath an accountant. He was right because you can't run hard in two directions at once.
What I'd have added is a conversation.
If deep down she wanted that path, it was worth hearing, and maybe the vision was evolving. Then back it fully. What you can't do is live half in the job and half in the business and expect either to work.
It could just as easily have gone the other way for me: the business as the vision, the job as the distraction.
The point was never which one. It's having a vision at all, then spotting distractions for what they are and deciding on purpose. Do them if you must, but never let them derail the big picture.
We lived this at Seamfix.
Broke in the early years, we took every website and custom software project that came along. It paid, but it turned us into coders for hire for years.
Our real growth only came when we stripped it back to our core: Identity.
I once told my co-founder to look at the sun. Immensely powerful, yet it doesn't burn us, because it's dispersed.
Put a mirror to it, focus those rays on one spot, and it burns straight through. That was our turning point.
Have a vision. Then focus the light.
You're supposed to use every unfair advantage you have. Looks, genetics, connections, dad's money, whatever.
There's nothing noble about choosing the hardest path just to feel like an underdog.
As a Muslim, there's something that genuinely bothers me.
Millions of Muslims live in Christian majority countries, build mosques, preach Islam publicly, distribute Qur'ans, open halal businesses, and demand religious freedom,and rightly so.
Some even call for aspects of Shariah to be accommodated in the societies they've moved to.
Yet in some Muslim majority countries, Christians cannot openly preach the Gospel, build churches freely, or practice their faith without restrictions.
Why?
If we demand religious freedom for ourselves, we should be willing to grant it to others.
Truth does not need censorship.
If Islam is the truth, it has nothing to fear from a church, a Bible, or a Christian preacher.
You can't demand tolerance and freedom for Muslims abroad while denying the same freedoms to others at home.
The double standard needs to be called out.