Future...Whose Hands Is It In?

            I Often hear people say, “Ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan” (The youth is the hope of the future).  I am part of that “kabataan” (youth).  For the longest time, I was made to believe that the future is in our hands...that we should work for the future...that we are the ones responsible for our future...that the future depends on who we are and what we do today.  Yes, I believed.  But, honestly, right now, I’m a little confused.  I went to an orphanage this morning...where I’m going to celebrate my birthday.  While I was there, I did not really think much.  I was just so stunned by the kids there.  Now, I’m thinking...thinking about a lot of things.  What if I was one of them?  What if, like them, I never knew my parents/family?  What if I was abandoned as a baby?  What if I was never told that the young is the hope of the future?  If the future is in the hands of the young, why aren’t they taken care of?  How do the parents of the abandoned manage to live their lives knowing they abandoned their child/ren?  How can the young work for the future when they don’t even know they have a future to build...when they don’t even know they are the hope of tomorrow?  How can the future depend on who they are and what they do today if they don’t even know who they really are?  And if no one lets them know what they are supposed to do?

            There are too many questions running in my mind right now.  Well, I guess my point is: How can we say that the young are the hope of the future when the young don’t even know they are?  The elders are supposed to mold the young into persons they ought to be.  They should be introduced to God at their very young age.  The young are supposed to be taken care of. 

            There are too many things I would want to do for them.  I want to take care of them...all of them, if possible.  I want them to know they have a future to build.  I want to let them know they are the future.  I want every parent to realize their responsibilities in teaching their child/ren.  I want them to realize that they have to let them (young) know they are the hope of tomorrow...that they have to mold them into persons they ought to be.  I want people to realize the importance of molding the hearts and minds of the young for a better future.  Not because of any other reason, but because that’s the right thing to do.  Ant that’s what God expects of us.

            I wish, hope, and pray that everyone be enlightened...that everyone may know the importance of teaching the young.  I wish all the young a better tomorrow.  And may there be no more children abandoned.  May love reign in the heart of every parent and of every human being.