The Youth

by: Divine Jewel “Apple” Ramos

When I was a child, I really wanted to grow up fast. It was because whenever I saw teenagers that time that had freedom to do things on their own, do whatever they wanted, go wherever they wanted to go and could hang out with friends without parents beside them, I really envied them. Then, I remember older people would usually tell me “in time, you will”. Now, it seems like it’s already happening. 

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But now it’s different, really different. When teenagers try to fix themselves to reach the standard of today’s’ fashions they look overly dressed or sometimes provocative. When they go out on their own, they are putting themselves in danger. Those people they call “friends” are the ones that could betray them. Still, they want to follow their instinct and even go wilder.

They go to bars more often than church; they prioritize worldly things than God who created them, who gave them everything that they have. They feel like they have a different need. Sex? Oh that’s the new game of teenagers. Internet? That’s the new school of this generation. Young people who need these actually long for LOVE. They are more incline to this worldly stuff that would one day lead them to destruction because they haven’t found yet the kind of love that would change them. 

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We have to do something; we have to reach them out. Behind that all-smiling face that they show is a lonely, heartbroken and desperate child that longs to feel God’s love. Let them feel God’s unconditional love through us. Be a vessel of change for the youth.