To All the Young People of the World
PART 1
To all the young people of the world, hear my voice. It is your voice. I hear your voice. It is my voice. Together, we are, now, life unending in motion. We are, now, the world becoming, moving onward, individually and collectively. They say you are young. They say I am old. We are, truly, ageless. I was young once. And still am. You will be old one day. Deep inside of you, at an intuitive, almost instinctive level, you can access the wisdom that comes with experience. It is yours now. You can become more aware of the natural unfolding of your life, attentive to your thoughts, your decisions and preferences, and in touch with your feelings. Understand that you create your own reality and that your greatest potential lies in what you believe is possible. Expand your horizons, flex your imagination and you will understand more and more that any changes in your life happen first inside of you.
The raw materials are your thoughts, your beliefs and expectations, your emotions, and intimate cogitations. The physical changes will follow in line with the interior ones.
Don’t wait for the aging process of your life to be wise and knowing. You are wise and aware now. I am young and daring now in my older years. This circularity of life I understand fully.
the author as a youngster
Young people of the world, if you understand what I am saying, you understand that there is no waiting for anything and no bemoaning anything. Life is now. You are as old as I am, and I am as young as you are. Your moment in time is yours, but it is also mine. I am also your moment in time as we share the intimacy of life in the exquisite unquantifiable now. Your focus may be different than mine, but any focus can be altered as you wish. Tap into my wisdom. It is rightfully yours too. You know more than you think you know. I am tapping into your vitality and thirst for life. Young or old, life is ahead of us, always creating the next and fresh moment in time. Wonderful unfolding is ahead of you. Ahead of us. What is next for you, young people of the world? Each of you makes this decision every passing moment of your life. I, too, make this decision for myself every passing moment of my life. Life is to be enjoyed now. Don’t wait for anything to happen. Feel it now. Be what and who you want to be in this moment. Do not pay attention to labels others put on you or your life. Live fully and assuredly your original life in this world. There is no other like it.
Don’t be afraid of being right or wrong. Be you. It is our current challenge to realize that we create individually and collectively every detail of our experience, our planet, our bodies, and every experience we may imagine. Let’s do it wisely, boldly, and joyfully! Together you and I are better, and together the world is better.
PART 2
To all the young people of the world, I say this to you personally: We need you. If you have problems or difficulties that seem insurmountable, if you feel depressed and perhaps desperate, consider your tribulations and the problems of the world as challenges and opportunities to create more of what you want in your life and for the world. You, being alive now, in this place, in this time, is no accident. It was your enthusiastic choice before you were born, and it is your choice now with each breath you take. You choose your life; no one else does it for you.
I was young once, just like you, full of hope and eager to change the world. I also had doubts and insecurities that I misunderstood for weaknesses or character flaws. I can tell now from my present perspective that every thought, especially doubtful thoughts, and every experience, especially uncomfortable ones, were essential for me to understand who I wanted to become. It’s a learning process, and if you trust the thrust of your life you will come to understand fully what I am telling you. You matter. Your focus creates who you are and what you experience. The creation of you is no different from the creation of the world. They both are happening now, and now, and now.
To all the young people of the world. If you ever contemplated suicide, know that you have the resources and capacity to contemplate and construct a full and satisfying life. Redirect your energies to what you want, and not to what you fear. Imagine the life you want to live and embrace its unfolding. You can focus. Aim your focus at fulfillment and enjoyment. There is a future for you. It is for you to imagine it now. Now is your future. Know that what you truly want is what the world needs. You are of good intent. Fulfill your destiny; it is yours to shape with each thought that flashes on the screen of your mind. To all the young people who feel discouraged, unheard, and unimportant, I say this to you personally: We need the clear-minded you, the one you know intimately in the private and secret recesses of your being as good and capable, unique and invaluable to the whole of life. I say, let the world benefit from who you are!
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