The Young and Its Powerful Wants

The young and the restless are the ones to achieve so many things. And this is not because they have too much stamina and stronger but because their mind is so innocent as not to think of the consequence of what they are doing. The moment they feel like of doing something, they go ahead without inhibition and even speak without thinking. Their open mind can create a landscape painting from the heart and not based from reason.

As one could think of the above-mentioned as pure negative, they are not because what they do and what they feel when channelled in the right direction could be led by spirituality for a purpose. They may not be spiritual or religious but such innocence of mind and purity of heart are guided by a higher force, greater than that of the universe and the rest of the creations.  No matter what they do when the mind is innocent, the heart became of pure intention. This is why, when talents of the young are tapped, they shine. They go for the limelight without even being aware that the place they put themselves into is a limelight itself.  These are the ones who speak what they feel. They may look like affordable arts but truly their mind work wonders like a brilliant and precious art. And they just simply go for something that they feel pursuing. And most especially, they are the ones who do not act based on reason but based on emotion. Result might be crazy but the impact of the deeds is intense—enough to create a difference, innovation; creative enough to invent or to come up with something unusual but relevant.  This madness, all of a sudden, stops when adults intervene.  As they intervene, the young withdrew and from then all he would see are all negative consequences of his act. Things can become chaotic when adults meddle. And of course this is for some case where the young is stopped from pursuing something so big.

And as adults would justify the intervention, they would say things like fear, frustration, disappointment, too ambitious, not being contented, and worse proud and being a braggart, too aggressive or arrogant. From these, the mind so innocent of the young became corrupted and would just settle to mediocrity, rather. This is because the young has not experienced the pain brought by frustration and failure which the adults are too aware of.  This is the same feeling that adults transfer to the young to make them withdraw from their pursuit. The mind that once saw no impossibility only might have been clogged now with impurities-- from a mind that is of landscape painting, it turned out to be a trash.