Jose Rizal noted that youths are “the hope of the Fatherland,” young people became a reliable buddy of the progress inhabited in the society. There are changes we’ve been facing and “meaningful” leading is in need. And the better opportunity to start a meaningful freedom of leadership is to be part of the organizations and activities they should be involve with.
Every youth is disseminated with each role in the civilization. There are Youth Councils fighting for the freedom and exercising the authority given to them to make a better kind of living. The school organizations and clubs enhancing the skills and externalizes the hidden talents of individuals particular to their influence, the senior students who build connections and the volunteer members on helping the victims of unexpected calamities.
But some were committed to juvenile delinquency. Others were dancing to the bar every midnight rather than studying their lessons, several youths were experiencing hunger and poverty that made them out of the school, others were involved in chaos in different part of the world and they are the victims of war. Some were in the level of knowing themselves in psychological and biological matters. And there are contented having no care on what’s going on. There are various types but if they tend to believe and achieve one goal for the nation then they can be called leaders.
There are some ways to mingle with the issues about the country. They weren’t obliged to literally get a knife and stab it in a criminal’s chest or prowling to investigate a terrorist and not even to consort with the policemen in raiding a drug den.
In the modern society, youths can do a lot. It’s easier for them to plan and create new things. They have the fresh ideas and the guts to make it possible. They are braver than the past generations. And because it is the newly reborn society, they are the soldiers of equality and humanity. They have the ability to make others listen and believe to them. Even if they’re not a degree holder, whatever gender they belonged to, whoever their parents are, how many money filled in their pockets or whatever their language is…they’re still youths. They owned the feet to stand from the crowd. By Elaine Diane De Vera