Our Youth

Disclaimer: First before I write this blog post, I do know a lot of great pre-teens and teenagers. This is not towards them, you keep doing you.

R. L. Heyen
Jul 20, 2017 · 2 min read

There are some extremely ‘simple-minded’ teenagers out here. Maybe it’s the older I get, the more simple I think they are. Is that what happens with each year you get older, you start to look at the younger generation differently?

Some of the teenagers I encounter have no moral compass and all they want to do is talk about other people. I get when you’re young you think the whole world revolves around you, but the consequences for thinking that will be drastic to your life.

Pick up a book. Don’t like books? Fine, read an article on a topic that interests you. Don’t have any real interests yet? Read on a variety of topics till you figure it out.

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Remember: the world is so much bigger than the one you think revolves around you, the knowledge you possess can never be taken from you.

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Reading not really ‘your thing?’ Well you still need to keep doing it. How about picking up a physical activity in the in-between time?

However, just a some friendly advice, every career path you want to take, had people doing it before you, or people making it possible to get to this specific point, so there are always things you can read about.

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Remember that your word means everything, so if you are always spreading rumors and lies about people, eventually that will catch up to.

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Another friendly reminder, when you’re constantly trying to make others look bad, you’re making yourself look worse.

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Remember there are other things to talk about besides people, and the fact that you can’t seem to think of anything else, sheds light on your own character, and not in the good- ‘and the light shined down on them,” kind-of-way, (insert: dramatic, ultra-joyous narrator voice) but, in the bad- ‘the light beamed on the burglars kind-of-way, (insert: oh crap, the cats out of the bag narrator voice)

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So moral of the story:

— read

— find interests

— knowledge can’t be taken away from you

— stop ONLY talking about people, you’re making yourself look stupid

OH and…

— the world doesn’t revolve around you

— R. L. Heyen

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