Building Bridges; Achieving Excellence

We are compassion. We are hope. We strive. We bleed. We cry. We succeed.

As a youth, have you ever found your field of specialization yet? Have you discovered and used your skills lately? Have you started honing your talents; sharpened your minds? Are you prepared for the future?

We, the youth, we are capable of conquering a vast number of obstacles. God has granted us a unique skill that we must foster, whether it may be in the sciences or humanities. Our only way of thanking Him is to use His given gifts. But how do we really use and foster these gifts wisely? How do we find the right path to be traversed? How?

Excellence. Perfection. These are just some of our goals for the future, to achieve excellence and perfection to build a greater tomorrow; a successful future. Knowledge has boomed out of economy and yes, it became “knowledge economy”. Our generation is filled with millions of factors in which we can use to develop our budding skills. Technology has risen abruptly. Thus, on the other way around, blinding the innocents’ eyes with iniquity; Ignorance, becoming its greatest vulnerability.

Young as we are, it is an undeniable fact that many of us have been lost in tract. Vast number of the youth has become lost sheep. Darkness has crept like a thief in the night and conquered and blinded a huge number of the youth’s populace. Unfortunately, the budding armies of the new generation for the future have lost in number.

Unquestionable. Look around you. Your tongue may deny. But your hypothalamus won’t lie. As the youth what have we done for our future? for ourselves development? Better understanding? Where is it?

We’ve been jailed in the cage of ignorance for ages now. This isn’t only a problem of the youth. It is the problem of the whole nation. Where did all our skills go? Hidden under ignorance?

In this darkness, we seek light to beckon us, to build a bridge for us to take. The bridge which will help us achieve our goals. The bridge to help us mold excellence.

Many have said, proper education is the only way to eliminate ignorance. Yes. It’s true. It’s irrefutably true. Through education, we are molded to better individuals. We are honed to good citizens. All the little things we know help us sharpen our minds and fall into correct thinking and better understanding. It’s not only about this. Education fosters and improves as well our skills and abilities which will soon serve as our catapults and gears for the challenges of the future. Through education, we became prepared for our battle in achieving our goal; Excellence.

We are proud that we, the youth, are not alone in our quest. Many thanks to the support given to us by the generation before us. It is such an honor for us to be guided accordingly. Thank you for believing in us despite of our failures.

We would somehow learn to believe in ourselves. We would soon realize the power to achieve self confidence and the power to develop and share our gifts.

In the wicked contemporary time lies change. Beneath failures lies determination. Remember what’s left inside Pandora’s Box? – HOPE. Hope lies on the palms of our hands. As long as we breathe, there’s still hope.

Hope is what we are. We are the new generation and we will unleash the future in perseverance and determination. Through our knowledge, skills and talents, we will defy time. We will change the doomed future. we will build bridges. We will achieve excellence. We are the new generation. We are the future. we are the youth.