RELATIONSHIPS – WHY TEENS ARE WARNED AGAINST IT

You can call it dating, boyfriend-girlfriend relationship or you can even say being in love with the opposite sex – it all represents the term RELATIONSHIP.

If our Christian adults, aunts, uncles and parents are practicing it, why then do they warn us (teens) against it? Why do they organize seminars just to tell us to avoid it? Why do churches and institutions pay huge amount of money to motivational speakers just to inform and remind us that we teens – their ‘leaders of tomorrow’ – should, and in some cases, must avoid it?

Well, with the help from God, and a true/real experience of the subject matter, I have arrived to the answer to the above questions. Adults go through all the stress to tell us to avoid indulging in them, not because it is necessarily wrong, but because RELATIONSHIPS ARE EXPENSIVE! By expensive, I mean – IT COSTS! It costs time, money (especially for the males), concentration and it brings about alot of risks that wouldn’t be there if you weren’t involved.

What sought of risk do I mean? I mean the risk of a heart break, the risk of falling into temptation of your flesh such as sex, the risk of losing concentration at delicate moments especially in school and during exams and ultimately the risk of missing Heaven due to immoral acts and thoughts.

Most of our adults who were involved in such relationships at their teenage years ended up having babies before marriage, dishonoring the bodies as God’s Holy Temple, some contracted S.T.Ds (Sexually Transmitted Diseases), lost their creative thinking ability and some even ended up losing their lives in the process.

So then, what should that teen boy or girl do when he or she ‘feels something like he or she has never felt before’ to that she or he? I would say the same as our adults would say, ABSTAIN! Avoid the relationship. If the feeling is growing stronger, decide to be best of friends BUT don’t let it go beyond that.

We (most) teens are not emotionally, psychologically and spiritually mature to handle the happenings during such relationships. Boyfriend – Girlfriend relationships is a very heavy burden that can destabilize your entire mental body. So its best advised to wait still you get into your adult age where you are ready for things such as marriage and then you will be fully appreciative to your parents, aunts, uncles, teachers, mentors and public speakers.

By the way, what brought about my ‘little true/real experience’?