Dear Generation,
I believe in you. Let me say that again, I believe in you. All of you. You are capable of anything. You can change the world. I know being in this day and age as a teenager is hard. You have to constantly be thinking about your image, your grades, your words, your family, your car, your gas, your job, your friends, your significant other, all of it. It is a lot to juggle every day. I also know that you often feel like since you are a teenager, all you are good for is making mistakes. That you are never going to get anywhere because all this world does is shut your dreams down. Even your own parents treat you like a child and expect you to act like an adult. When you mess up just once, you are automatically not good enough, or a failure. You have so much to balance and it takes just too much energy to prove them wrong. You even believe you can not prove them wrong. You believe you will never be anything: you will never reach your dreams; you will always be a mistake and a failure.All you want is to be young again, or be older so you can make something out of your self.
Listen to me, you can and you will prove them wrong. You are not a failure. Your mistakes do not define you. Dream big because you can accomplish your dreams. Set goals and go for them. You are more then you think you are. Just because you are young doesn't mean you can't impact this world. You are impacting this world.Now let me stop you right there. Because we have been downed so much for so long, we have begun to act poorly. Because they said we were failures, and good for nothing. Please do not conform to this. Be one who proves this world wrong. Dear generation, please grow up. Stop acting like children who let what others say or think of them define them. Stop not trying to do better. Stop trying to fit in. Stop not fighting when it gets hard. Stop making stupid decisions that you know will ruin your life but you don't think enough of yourself to do any different. Stop letting the world define who you are. Stop being children, and please, grow up.
There is nothing wrong with being mature. There is nothing wrong with overcoming stereotypes and acting like a grown up. You have the life style of a grown up, so act like one. So many times we have to go through the fire of hell to see that we need to grow up. Don't wait to make a difference. Don't wait to act maturely. Why do you keep waiting for yourself to change? Why do you keep being reckless just to fit in? Why do you keep letting your self conform to stereotypes? Just because you have only ever known stereotypes does not mean you must become them. Light your match and burn them. Burn the stereotypes which keep you from being the best you can be! Burn the shell the holds you back! Break the walls of lies and destructiveness. Take a sledgehammer to the lies you have been told!
Dear Generation, please never conform to what they say we are. Don't be afraid to be different. Change the reputation the world has given adolescents. Don't let the lies and stereotypes keep you from changing this world: from changing the way you are perceived. Don't wait to be a leader. Don't wait to grow up. I believe in you. You can and you will change this world, you just have to believe in yourself!
Sincerely,
~B
"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers, in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity." 1 Timothy 4:12
*Photo credit: Lester Ruiz @ Fall Retreat 2016
