Save the Last Dance
Yes, it was a film that I watched, though I really can’t precisely place how the plot of the story went, but I remember vividly that the main character had to flow through challenges at home, with her love for a black-American guy and her interest in ballet.
… At the end she had her feat. I guess that’s how the plots of most stories go.
However, I am not really much into expressing the movie content, since at present I am not yet a movie-critic, neither am I a movie-maker. (I hope to someday though). Still the title of this soft piece still appeals to me.
It is like it opens a mirror of series of explanations on how to walk through teenage-hood. Yeah, I really can’t say I had that beautiful sort of teenage-hood, but sometimes when I get to reminisce, I get to realize that there are some actions that I ought to have saved for the last dance and you ought to save for the last dance. I am not giving a rule though, but like Joshua of the Christian Bible, I am just giving you choices to pick from.
Like the laws of economics, where you set a scale of preference, putting them in the order of the most important, there are certain things in our lives that should be placed on a scale of preference. Perhaps, some amongst them can even become forgone alternatives. This some economics adherents call opportunity cost.
Now, I do not want to confuse you, so I will come straight. Much like adults, teenagers as well as youths have instances when we are pressured by the sheer excitement of trying something new, or perhaps because of an influence generated from somewhere (which could be from our friends, the media or from ourselves), we tend to take steps that ultimately hurts us.
Yes, I have done things that I either did to please my friends or because they pushed me to, either way I made the choice and I bear the brunt or the good (either side of the coin). This equally applies to you.
My plan is to help you through my dialogue to determine the things that should fall into your scale of preference and priorities. I hope to help you equally on how to know those things that should be saved for the last dance.
Some things, when we do them now may not bring to us the ovation of people and some if we do them now will bring the accolades we desire. Those are the things we will be sorting together in this piece.
If I were to ask a student, a teenager or a youth, ‘list 7 most important things in your life that you must have achieved in the next 7 years’, and I assume, such is between the age of 15-17, this is what I expect (forgive my assumption):
The truth is that I had a goal, and somehow it shaped most of my decisions from time to time.
Now, you are getting bored and you are asking, ‘what exactly are you saying?’
This is the point:
In your life-dance, your academics and your visions should be your first dance. You and I very well see in the streets of Lagos, that those who dance to immorality instead of their academics and visions end up becoming nuisance and as a result, they contribute more to the society than the society itself.
Research has shown that most of the atrocities that are prevalent in the society are committed by youths who have no sense of purpose. Their lots most of the times is a primitive, rough life that eventually end their lives early.
Very well, the most predominant evil of these juvenile delinquencies are the plethora news on teenage pregnancies, teenage-mothers, abortions and gangster-ism (just to name a few). For them you and I know they refused to save the last dance. I suppose for most of us, this is not our desire.
Really, for me, I am not day-dreaming of just wishing. My desires are not just castles built in the air, they are desires that I am following doggedly. I do not wish to marry a half-baked woman. I need someone classy lady, smart (who has gone to school), a career or business person, sound, intelligent. Someone I can take out and be proud of, someone I can make reference to. Someone I can sit beside her as she is on the wheels driving and just keep admiring, such beauty I can only find in a woman who has saved her last dance, for me.
Succinctly, I can only opt for a woman with a purpose, because it is only such that can save the last dance. Really, such last dance is always the best of dance, since such has kept the best dance for that period. I know this equally goes for the female folks.
I ask you ‘are you saving your last dance?’. For the record, don’t save it for me, save it for...
Enjoy!
Yes, it was a film that I watched, though I really can’t precisely place how the plot of the story went, but I remember vividly that the main character had to flow through challenges at home, with her love for a black-American guy and her interest in ballet.
… At the end she had her feat. I guess that’s how the plots of most stories go.
However, I am not really much into expressing the movie content, since at present I am not yet a movie-critic, neither am I a movie-maker. (I hope to someday though). Still the title of this soft piece still appeals to me.
It is like it opens a mirror of series of explanations on how to walk through teenage-hood. Yeah, I really can’t say I had that beautiful sort of teenage-hood, but sometimes when I get to reminisce, I get to realize that there are some actions that I ought to have saved for the last dance and you ought to save for the last dance. I am not giving a rule though, but like Joshua of the Christian Bible, I am just giving you choices to pick from.
Like the laws of economics, where you set a scale of preference, putting them in the order of the most important, there are certain things in our lives that should be placed on a scale of preference. Perhaps, some amongst them can even become forgone alternatives. This some economics adherents call opportunity cost.
Now, I do not want to confuse you, so I will come straight. Much like adults, teenagers as well as youths have instances when we are pressured by the sheer excitement of trying something new, or perhaps because of an influence generated from somewhere (which could be from our friends, the media or from ourselves), we tend to take steps that ultimately hurts us.
Yes, I have done things that I either did to please my friends or because they pushed me to, either way I made the choice and I bear the brunt or the good (either side of the coin). This equally applies to you.
My plan is to help you through my dialogue to determine the things that should fall into your scale of preference and priorities. I hope to help you equally on how to know those things that should be saved for the last dance.
Some things, when we do them now may not bring to us the ovation of people and some if we do them now will bring the accolades we desire. Those are the things we will be sorting together in this piece.
If I were to ask a student, a teenager or a youth, ‘list 7 most important things in your life that you must have achieved in the next 7 years’, and I assume, such is between the age of 15-17, this is what I expect (forgive my assumption):
- I should have learnt good skills and how to make them marketable (this could be singing, writing, drawing, sewing, crafts, baking to name a few).
- I should have graduated in school with the best result or perhaps an average at the least.
- I should have a 1st degree, perhaps a Masters if possible
- I should have started working.
- I should be getting ready to marry.
- I should be successful or perhaps already stepping into limelight in my chosen profession.
- (I’ll leave the 7th one for you to fill in).
The truth is that I had a goal, and somehow it shaped most of my decisions from time to time.
Now, you are getting bored and you are asking, ‘what exactly are you saying?’
This is the point:
In your life-dance, your academics and your visions should be your first dance. You and I very well see in the streets of Lagos, that those who dance to immorality instead of their academics and visions end up becoming nuisance and as a result, they contribute more to the society than the society itself.
Research has shown that most of the atrocities that are prevalent in the society are committed by youths who have no sense of purpose. Their lots most of the times is a primitive, rough life that eventually end their lives early.
Very well, the most predominant evil of these juvenile delinquencies are the plethora news on teenage pregnancies, teenage-mothers, abortions and gangster-ism (just to name a few). For them you and I know they refused to save the last dance. I suppose for most of us, this is not our desire.
Really, for me, I am not day-dreaming of just wishing. My desires are not just castles built in the air, they are desires that I am following doggedly. I do not wish to marry a half-baked woman. I need someone classy lady, smart (who has gone to school), a career or business person, sound, intelligent. Someone I can take out and be proud of, someone I can make reference to. Someone I can sit beside her as she is on the wheels driving and just keep admiring, such beauty I can only find in a woman who has saved her last dance, for me.
Succinctly, I can only opt for a woman with a purpose, because it is only such that can save the last dance. Really, such last dance is always the best of dance, since such has kept the best dance for that period. I know this equally goes for the female folks.
I ask you ‘are you saving your last dance?’. For the record, don’t save it for me, save it for...
Enjoy!
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