Initially, when the news broke, I felt some sense of shame. Why so? My daughter, Ebunoluwa, also attained the age of sixteen this year. For my daughter though, becoming a “sweet sixteen” was not the only feat achieved. Earlier, at a tender age of fifteen, she got admitted into college. That was the age Lil Wayne's daughter completed middle school. Unlike the rapper's daughter, my daughter actually turned sixteen while in college and she has since been maintaining the status of a straight “A” student which culminated into her acceptance into an Honor’s society. In a sharp contrast to Lil Wayne’s daughter therefore, my daughter deserved a plane, possibly one of those luxurious executive Lear jets. But what did I give her? Some clothes and a dinner at Red Lobsters, a sea food restaurant!
In the final analysis however, my shame turned into pride when, in a subsequent discussion with my daughter, I was made to understand a salient point. She did not envy Lil Wayne’s daughter. If anything at all, she would rather sympathize with the “poor” girl. Why so? The teenager's case is like that of a Biblical phrase about the impossibility of anyone “worshiping God with Mammon at the same time”. Luxurious, exotic cars with loads of cash can never go together with a teenager’s pursuit of education, sense of values or moral standards. Sooner or later, all those material things will pass away. But nothing can ever take away an education and neither can anything surpass a high sense of values.And I concurred.
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Ohhh, wise waliat! Lmaoo. But on a more serious note, the whole drama of giving their sixteen year old daughter two cars further emphasizes the implications of illiteracy. I mean if Lil Wayne and his baby mama had any common sense, they would know how stupid that is. Alas, this is America where common sense is so rare, it should be classified as a super power.
Thanks for your comment Ifeoluwa. From what I gathered, the combined "common sense" of both Lil Wayne and his "baby mama" are far less than that of their teenage daughter...lol. And besides that factor, what else did you expect from a father who was merely 15 years old when he fathered the child??
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