living for today and tomorrow
Youth should feel like spring, full of colour and new strength. Bodies grow fitter, minds sharpen, and doors open to learning, work and friendship. With so much life gathering pace, these years can be bright and joyful.
Still, not every moment will feel easy. Some things sit outside anyone’s control, yet many choices sit within reach. With the right help, young years can bring lasting gains that carry into adulthood.
This season of life brings tests as well as energy. The road has rough patches, and it takes courage to keep going. Each time a problem is faced and solved, confidence grows, and the way ahead feels smoother.
Meeting these tests is better than drifting past them. Daydreams can blur what life is really like. Reality then hits hard, and catching up can be slow and painful. Time matters, and youth does not come twice.
Change is steady at this stage, and not just on the surface. The body moves toward full growth, often into the early twenties. Feelings and judgment may take longer to settle. New pressures can feel confusing. When strain rises inside, it helps to learn practical ways to handle it. With sound guidance, these changes can be faced with insight and even enjoyed, since they shape a clear sense of self, a distinct person, you.
Aids for Charting Your Course
Rules may sometimes feel like fences, yet youth also offers a wide field. Many burdens that older people carry have not yet arrived. Time can be spent building knowledge, learning skills, and studying how others have lived. Their choices, good and bad, can light the way forward.
Going it alone sounds bold, but it is not always wise. Imagine building a car engine without speaking to a mechanic or reading a manual. The result would likely disappoint. Picture building a house when you have no construction experience and you don’t enlist the professionals – it just wouldn’t happen, would it!?
Life is far more complex than an engine or a house. Learning from others saves time, money and heartache.
Keep Your Communication Lines Open
Everyone builds on what came before. That only happens when people speak, read, listen and watch. Without open lines of communication, hard-won lessons from others are lost.
Young people benefit when they draw on experience that has proved sound. That includes caring for the body, forming and keeping true friends, setting wise limits for dating and courtship, and thinking clearly about marriage, sex, alcohol and drugs. Honest, balanced advice helps.
Still, the world we live in today can feel unfair… selfishness, deceit, pollution, crime and war are not hard to find. It is easy to think older generations broke things beyond repair.
Many did play a part in what went wrong or stayed quiet while poor systems grew. Yet plenty of older people feel the same frustration. These troubles did not appear in a single decade. For more than a century, crises have come one after another, each one becoming increasingly difficult to manage.
Age alone does not answer every problem. If it did, the world would improve year on year—but it hasn’t… far from it! In fact, it’s getting worse! So there is value in lived experience, and there is also a need for a higher source of guidance that steadies the mind and heart. Drawing on both brings balance, hope and a clear route through the years ahead. Is there another and even better source of information?
Yes, there is.
