The Challenge of Young Adults
Imagine yourself planning to go a see a movie at the Cinema. You have invited friends and the tickets are bought. On your way there, however, something happens and you arrived late, as you take your seat, the movie is already in the middle of the plot…..
How does this make you feel? Would you enjoy watching the movie? Would you know what’s going on? What role the main character is playing, will you be captured by the plot developing?
For young adults out there, I imagine this is your metaphor! You are standing on the threshold of your life, ready to choose who and what you are and will become, but do you know, what is the ‘movie script’ of the reality you find yourself in? Do you know the set-up of the script, meaning what has happened before to have brought your world to this place in space and time? Do you know your own character plot?
If you do not know, I suggest you start by questioning the things that inspire you. For instance, music, you all love music right; ask yourself, why do I like music? How does music assist me in becoming the person I strive to be? Or Art, why do you like art? How can you use the appreciation of art or making art, help you achieve what you want to be?
Then look back to the past and try to understand what the message is of the artist you love, why does it ‘talk to you’?
Listen to the lyrics and understand the message. What can you learn from the artist? We built our knowledge through sharing our experiences in life and learning from each other.
The Beatles was considered to be Satanist in their time. But more likely, they were just rebels breaking through oppression. Like with any other revolution in our history, tremendous energy is released when rebels break through an oppressed state. And this is exactly what happened in the 60s. Young people stood up to the war by voicing their truth through song and protests. LSD was discovered and they were interested in the dormant areas in the brain that was activated through the use of LSD. With the use of LSD, people started experiencing tremendous love for each other and came to understanding that we are all just humans, interconnected through the web of life in ways never before understood in short history here. They pronounced love, not war, the right to choose your own partner to love, regardless of race, gender or tradition. They excelled humanity onto a different course. That is why you young people are leading the life you have today, going out partying, choosing your own partners, deciding for yourself what you want and how you will achieve it. Even your trance music of today, still borrows boldly from the lyrics of this era of revolution. I am not saying use LSD; I am saying learn from the past that is shaping your present. Mind altering substances may show you that you are a spiritual being living a human life, but it will not liberate you from the reality of cause and effect.
There are only two paths in life, either you were raised in a family or you had a mentor, who told you the truths about life and through them you understood the consequences of your actions. Or you found out that people were lying to you or the books you read were untruthful, now you have to go out into life and become a rebel, trying to find your own truth by experimenting with all sort of experiences to discover if they relate or resonate with you. This path is not easy and pitfalls are many. Once you have discovered your own truth, then stop the rebellion, now there is no more need for it, you are just attached to habits that come with rebellion.
And if you are a rebel, without a cause, then you are in trouble. In history all rebels had a cause.
The generation before me was severely oppressed here in South Africa under strict parenthood, where they were not allowed to speak, had to keep their hands behind their backs and wasn’t even allowed to be in the same room as the adults.
They use shock tactics and led lives as rebellions, forming bands and crowds of perceived mishaps. Perhaps through his they found their truth, but were never able to give up the bad habits thereafter. Now they are 40, drunk every night and not bringing up their children any better than their parents did before them. Actually, their children might be worse off because now parents lean on their children for emotional support.
Have you found your truth? Have your find your purpose or plot in this movie we call life?
Look to your movies, nowadays all the movies are about zombies and teenage girls as the heroin. Have you notice? Why, why are the Tom Cruise types on the expensive motorcycles no longer the hero? There is a message for you in this! Movies are known to reflect the state of the society you are in.
Do you feel like you have A CAUSE? Or do you feel like you are a ZOMBIE? Even if you don’t know yet know what your CAUSE is, hold on to the feeling that you have one. And who are the Zombies? Those that walk around saying, living and breathing money…money…money…
Ask, observe, read, and listen. Find out what is your purpose. This is your world. You are the future.
I believe in the evolution of consciousness and that God has a definite plan for us. I believe that things are always changing for the better. My world was when Clinton had the affair and people started to realise that the government does not have their best interests at heart. Big media corporations were controlling everything that we saw on the TV and read in the papers. They had upper middle class white men as gatekeepers, choosing what we saw according to their belief of what entertains the majority of us.
The gatekeepers are gone. The media houses have tumbled. We have gone from passive media users where we had no say, to active users where with one click we choose our own media: USER GENERATED MEDIA. We share, we network, we collaborate, moderate and lead through online communities. We have the tool to speak our own truths and to share our paths of liberation to inspire each other.
Anglo Gold, the company owning, what we considered ‘yesterday’ to be the only valuable currency, has crashed. And in its place a new currency is emerging, the currency of the future…user generated media through the sharing of information in the form of blogs. This is your future; this is your currency, use it to find and voice your truth to the world and be liberated in the process.
There is a good reason why you are living in a consciousness of SELF, it may appear to be negative, but as with everything else in life, there is a flip side of the coin. Something great will come from it.
Through self-realisation, you uplift yourself, YOU SAVE YOURSELF and your reality and everyone in it, is saved automatically.
You are the cause. Awaken to your true potential here in this lifetime.
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