"No matter what kind of age maybe approaching us, I know a treasure that will never change. It is the goals we have in life that are the fountainheads of all things. It is having a purpose in one's life that gives rise to everything.
From here on, no matter how bitter the winds that may sweep over the world, our greatest asset will be our wills."
At times, there are moments when we young adults seems to have all the answers to our predicaments, to know everything and everything. How many of us have promised at one time or another that we shall not replicate the mistakes of our elders? That we shall not be like our leaders who have brought nothing but ruin and disaster our people?
We have heard often enough that the youth are the hope of our fatherland. But how have the very same idealistic youth of yesterday, filled with vision, hope and passion to change the world , become the persons and leaders they detest and have promised not to emulate.
The answer lies partly in the realities of the times. It is partly due to what we are made to confront day in and day out, a substantial portion of which comes from family, peer, and/or societal pressure. Many youth have failed because our leaders themselves have begun to fail.
They have compromised, surrender or worse succumbed to temptations to acquire wealth through dishonest means.
In this sense, we only need to remind ourselves, never to allow our dreams to remain only in the innermost recesses of our minds. We should aspire for our ideals to be transformed to something greater than our day to day subsistense.
Greatness, prosperity and progress were achieve by those who neither conformed to the ordinary nor dare change the obvious. Were it not for scientists, inventors, the charlatans, inane and the insane of their times, none of what we are and where we are would be possibly today.
For is it not a truism that the ordinary are simply reduced to mere statistics and footnotes of history while those who did make a difference are enshrined in the chapters and volumes in the bigger book of the story of life?
Discovery is actually seeing with new eyes...
Were not here just to read, see, rewrite and be amazed or what so ever, by the works of others. Were here to developed it.. improve it.. and make it something new..
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