growing up

Growing up is always the hardest thing in life, Believing what's always felt good comes easily. But growing up requires accepting truths that our younger selves denied. Growing up is hard work.
Because the path to maturity has no end, it's wise to focus on journeying well. Along the way, emotionally healthy adults achieve the profound awareness that they do not know far more than they do know. The realization serves as an indispensable ally. But growing up in a military environment is surely the hardest and toughest of them all especially in a country were development is a major agenda and education is not in it's easiest of forms. Air Force Military school was, is , and will never be a walk in the park to pass through. situated in Jos, Plateau State. Waking up as early as 4am after going to bed as early as 12am sounds surprising, but believe me that is early, bullying was said to be part of training and food doesn't taste like that of mother's neither does it feel the tummy but what you can always count on is friends who have got your back what ever you got yourself into, friends who are ready to handover their live to cover an offense you have done. it was really hard growing up in an environment like that. were insults to mothers were a daily routine among students. always leaving the life of an antelope in the  wild as to escape the lions (senior student). Life was tough but at the same time learning  it's meaning and becoming a man. Reason, emotion, fact, and fallacy, the human brain processes all four. Decisions emerge. With each decision, people grow-or not. The willingness to learn how to blend emotion with reason and make good decisions is a prerequisite for growth.