The youth are the hope of the nation, the future of the world. The problem is some people believe they are not up to the challenge.Being young is hard enough.
The youth need to deal with the demands of growing up, school, parents and peers. To top it all, they need to carry the burden of the future in their fragile shoulders.This is a huge responsibility and very few people realize how hard it is to live up to an expectation like that. As a result, young people are not being guided enough. This paper will give them some pointers they can use in their journey, from a skeptic who understands their plight and believes they are not supposed to be left on their own.
My first advice is, do not take other people’s advice. Older people equate wisdom with age. They think wrinkles and gray hair qualify them to be guidance counselors.They will tell you a lot of things.
They will try to teach you everything they have learned because they do not trust you to learn on your own. They will tell you they have made a lot of mistakes and learned from them. Then ask you not repeat their mistakes.Do not take their word for it. They had fun making those mistakes, that’s what made them so memorable.
They will not teach you about the things they did right because there is nothing to tell. Joe Dallesandro (2002) in the book Take My Advice said, “You’ve got to make your own mistakes to find what’s important to you.”Make your own mistakes. Do things right if you can.
Learn from both. Make your own memories. It will give you first-hand experience to share to the young when you grow older. My next advice is, go to school.
School is a good place to learn. It will teach you to succeed. It will show you what to do with the rest of your life.The most successful people in the world all went to school. Bill Gates went to Harvard and learned he did not want to finish school so he dropped out and started Microsoft.Robert Kiyosaki ‘s capitalized on his father’s education and his friend’s father’s experience in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, a book that landed him on the New York Times’ bestseller list and paved the way to the Rich Dad Company.
He wrote, “If you want to be rich, don’t go to school” (Kiyosaki and Lechter, 2001). The point is if you will not go to school, you will never know what you missed.However, you do not need to be a college drop out to succeed. There are millions of people who succeeded because they finished school. If you can not find your calling before graduation, do not give up. Finish your degree.
Some people find their purpose after graduation.Some after a few years, some never found it in their lifetime, but that is another story. Someday you will forget everything you learned in this world, but if you went to school, you can take out your diploma to remind yourself.This is my advice to the youth, read it, download it and install it at your own peril.
Works CitedDallesandro, Joe. “If You Have To Be Beautiful.” Take My Advice. Ed. James L. Harmon.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 47-52.Kiyosaki, Robert and Lechter, Sharon. Rich Dad, Poor Dad. New York: Warner Books, 2001.
