Youth Is A Phase In Life, Not Destination

As we celebrate the International Youth Week, we young people ought to remind ourselves what being young should mean to us and how being full of energy can be a worthwhile preface and benefit to other stages of life. Being young is not just momentary, it is a phase of life forever silhouetted by adulthood, and eventually old age. Youth is therefore just a part of the continuum of what we call life. Viewed that way, I guess, no one, not even young people themselves, would want to drain the attributes of youth into a dump. Indeed, every choice, whether we are aware of it or not, we make today...