Natasha’s Chronicles:YOUTH LIFE: let’s face it

Being a youth I believe, is supposed to be the most fruitful, most full of experience, most energetic time of our life. It is a time when we ought to explore who we are, make the most use of it and reach for as far as we possibly can into our purpose for life. I believe we need to be guided but also be pushed out into the open air so we can freely soar on our own. In short, parents, with all due respect, should not do so too rigidly. As people are always analyzing the psychology of youth and we are usually so irritated that people claim to understand us more than we understand our selves, well, I personally believe in some cases we are right to feel that way and many times it is actually true. I took time to do the analysis myself and ended up with interesting results, now I stand moderate. As one, I know sometimes we tend to live only in the present, do what seems comfortable and fulfilling at the moment and tomorrow, will care for itself, which, yes, is a good thing but only to a small extent because our choices today determine our fate tomorrow! And believe me, extreme comfort today isn’t quite a solid foundation for a bright tomorrow. I’m not saying that we ought not to be comfortable; I only mean we ought to sacrifice most of that comfort in favour of using our mental and physical energy while we still can so that when we no longer can, we can truly be content with life. And still, I say if we don’t strike a balance, we’re not safe. We’ve got to look further than what today has brought us rather than wish we had done so. Take a simple example of how we spend. Today some of us may not care about how well we spend. As my father says, when we are spending money that someone else hurdled and hustled for, we spend like it’s plucked from trees. Yet we at one point will be hit with the fact that it is indeed scarce, so why wait for that time? There are millions more of examples. Well, from my point of view, youth life is the best time of our life in regards to opportunity, flexibility, ability and potential! Yet it can also turn out to be the stage of life that ruined you mercilessly. You and I are the players; we decide how we handle our ball. There is no rehearsal, we are in the game. Importantly we should ENJOY IT but do so cautiously, tactfully, and with wise precision. hozatash@yahoo.com