Nigeria, July 19 -- The title reminds me of the project work that final-year students undertake in tertiary institutions. It also reminded me of a lecture that has haunted me since my secondary school days. My teacher, with the quiet confidence of someone who had lived both sides, compared the carefree life of a bachelor with the weighty responsibility of a husband and father. His verdict was simple and devastating: responsibility does not cripple a man, it forges him. Marriage, he argued, imposes discipline, teaches prudence, and turns survival into strategy. It forces you to stretch a small income, to choose between wants and needs, and to discover a version of yourself you never knew existed that is more enterprising, resilient, and s...