Dear old person. Yes, you born between 1970 and 1990; You are still young in many things though old you might take yourself. You can dream again, you can start that business, you can still get married, you can still trust again, you can still have faith anew, you can still build and finish that house, you can still have a child, you can still have that restaurant, you can still get healed, you can still graduate with an honors degree, or masters’, or PhD.
If you think of the possibilities, you are still young for very many things.
Now to you young person; yes you born between 1990 and 2010; you are old in many things though young you might take yourself to be. The pandemic has had you sit at home for 12 months, and still counting… even the essential workers at some point had to sit home. Have you discovered your purpose? For many of us were snatched of everything that keeps our minds occupied and distracted from the essential questions.
Have you developed any skills? Have you become more creative? Have you thought about the fact that you’d be around for the next seventy years like my paternal grand aunt in the picture below who’s 98? Have you thought about your wealth or net worth, or you think you are still too young to worry about such stuff? Has it occurred to you that 2021 is ending anytime now, and that children born around 2008 do not know who Michael Jackson is! Do you remember how many times you’ve been told the world is ending but it is not!
Yes, some of your friends are married, and you’re not. There’s no devil in that. We all have different timelines yes, but that shouldn’t make us use the excuse of being young as an answer for not having jobs, for not knowing our purposes or for not starting to save money by all means possible (except theft).
Understand that you’re not too young to invest in your passions. Understand that it is pointless working a job you don’t love. Understand that many chapati makers on the streets have better financial choices than some white-collar youth who are earning so much.
Understand that you do not need to first get all the money in the world for you to steward that dream. Understand that each day you grow older. Once a kid with mucus bubbles in your nose, now corporate and clean. Once a child who dreaded morning preps, now a controller of your own time. Once a youth, soon a grand-parent with silver hair.
In 2017, a cake was made for my cousin and it had 23 on it. I thought she was very old. But as I speak, I am 23. Those ahead look old until you look back and see all those younger creatures calling you the same. Old and young is an illusion. Our parents call us young, but our sons and daughters call us sirs and madams, creating room for us to pass as they play within the road.
Let’s throw the fear to face where we are at out the window, and be daring. We are both old for something, and young for something. It’s an understanding we must carry; whether born as boomers or millennials or GenZ! (FYI Millennials are considered born from 1980 to 1996)
If you know your name, and respond to it when someone calls, you are old! If you are alive today, having woken up to ‘drink’ in some free oxygen; you are young!
That’s how young young is.
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Ecclesiastes 11:7-10 ‘Oh, how sweet the light of day, And how wonderful to live in the sunshine! Even if you live a long time, don’t take a single day for granted. Take delight in each light-filled hour, Remembering that there will also be many dark days And that most of what comes your way is smoke.
You who are young, make the most of your youth. Relish your youthful vigor. Follow the impulses of your heart. If something looks good to you, pursue it. But know also that not just anything goes; You have to answer to God for every last bit of it. Live footloose and fancy free–You won’t be young forever. Youth lasts about as long as smoke.’ (Msg)
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