It’s not always easy to know our vocation.  When are we supposed to think about this anyway?  Some seem to know from an early age but these days not everyone knows and despair sometimes sets in their heart.  I haven’t checked any statistics on suicide but I noticed how disturbed and aggressive some of our youth are.  Some commit suicide who knows why, and others kill even their own family or kids in school.  Where is all this violence coming from?  I truly believe is out of frustration and lack of communication skills.  If they can’t communicate with someone who has their best interest at heart how are they going to be rescued from themselves and the turmoil they are going through. 

The incertitude of not knowing our place here on earth and our vocation I believe is the reason for the turmoil.  It’s the wave that’s creating insecurity and a destructive generation.  If parents take time to talk to their kids and analyze for them what they might be good at, it will encourage them to think about it.  By looking at their qualities and interest we can guide them and help them on the difficult road of life.  In these time and age in which both parents have to work outside of the home for the most part is difficult to find time, that’s where creativity comes in.  When you are driving from place to place with them utilize that time to catch up with what’s going on in their lives and any counseling they might need.  Start them young, I would say 10-11 years old, and start them thinking of the things they would like to do in life, what talents they possess and how they can share it to do some good for society.  I’ve seen kids do some extraordinary things by helping people in crisis, creating ways to raise funds for different organizations and reaching out to other young people and old as well.  They just need a challenge and an open mind, instead of a constant critic behind them.  They might not think like us many times and they wouldn’t go about things our way but that doesn’t invalidate what they are trying to do.  When they start thinking about other people, their unfounded worries and preoccupations vanish.  They also find that by giving more of themselves they get so much more.             

I truly believe that we have taken some things out to the extreme.  This respect of privacy and individuality and not giving our young people certain responsibilities as members of our family is having a bad effect in general.  We can’t let kids make their own decisions at such and early age and let them get away with disrespect and disobedience towards adults without paying a consequence.  In our society every action has a consequence, good or bad, and that’s something that our young people ignore.  For them to be able to survive in society they need to respect authority first of all and the first place they learn that is in the home.  If they can’t deal with family they won’t be able to handle many things in life.  But on a positive note I believe that there are great things waiting to happen for adults as well as for our youth if we realize that each and every one of us is here for a reason and that we were created for something special.  Everyone has a mission and vocation and the world need it for the common good of all.  If we understand that there will be hope in everyone’s life and a new zest for life.  It doesn’t matter when you find out what you are supposed to do, do it as soon as know and that moment will be the one you’ll find out you are really living for the very first time.