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Building a Safe Planet for our Youths
Youths are always seen in the public eye as vivid dreamers, a vital portion of our community who seek an ambition and stick with it. Some of them attain the necessary knowledge and experience throughout their young life to finally grasp it; some of them turn those dreams into reality at an early age; and some are caught in the dismal plot twist known as reality, where they lock their dreams into the mental box of illusions that they always had been before throwing away the key.
The latter part is mostly influenced by the adults of today who had once carried that same youthful torch of dreams that had been extinguished similarly. Adults who toil with the daily hassles of spending their time and resources on employment, bills, rent, parenthood, as well as a myriad of challenges that emerge from the status of the society or community. In many unfortunate cases, the child would grow up only to pick up where the parent left off in trying to sustain the family, while everything around them fades into a blur.
The planet itself is among the aforementioned everything. The truth is, some people just don’t have time to worry about it; especially not when they are preoccupied with getting through the day to put food on the table or collect their earnings so that they wouldn’t get kicked out of their apartments. What they don’t realize is that the condition of the…