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We, pure thinking energy, come to this world like a blank CD, ready to function, but in need of feedback. The people that surround us (Family), are in charged, at the beginning, to supply all the information needed. Before and now, that is a bad start. In most of the cases what we heard is conflictive. "Do not do that", you are stupid", "We are poor", "you are beautiful", "we are black". etc.
By doing that, they are limiting our potential with little barriers that will stay there for ever.
Before the family stayed together, respect for the elders was a must. All the family were united at the diner table. Children did not suppose to listen to adult conversation. Etc.
The outcome was mixed, a big percentage came out to be good citizens, but we had the usual drunks, criminals, etc.
Nowadays, these newborns come to different scenarios, a family that but a miraculous way still together and manage to take care of their offspring and give them guidance, in most cases, they come into a broken family or a single parent family that lacks the time and energy to take care of them and give the the so much needed guidance.
I like to note that for us to become productive adults, we must have a prolonged childhood, what you learn in the first five or six years, is crucial. Then come school years, the purpose of those years is, not only to learn, but to interact with others. Those to actions prepare us to become productive adults.
Our youth is missing those childhood years, they are confronted with adult life to soon. In certain countries, six year old are already young adults, they have to work to provide for their families or themselves, here in America, the fast disappearing of the middle class is only leaving rich and poor, and in both extremes youth lacks guidance and family unit. The out come is mixed, some come out being productive, after struggling, some are lost, some will go with no direction.
In our race to make money to survive or to have more riches, the youth has lost the importance of them being the future of any society. We grown ups live just to keep with our necessities, once in a while we take a glance around us and are conscious of our offspring, but as soon as the phone rings, that vision and weak desire of given them more attention is gone.
That is the world we have helped to create, and until we do not find a solution to this fast paced society, there is no hope.

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