ADVICE TO THE YOUNG

Be true to your eyes, ears, thoughts, and feelings

Listen to your heart but yield to your mind’s best Judgment

Be kind and wise in spoken words, for surely your Words will follow you

Be not afraid of risks but be cautious

of actions Driven by emotion, confusion, and false friends

Avoid jealousy of others’ achievements and possessions

Don’t live with an insatiable greed

for more than You can appreciate or use

Don’t eat more than your hunger’s call or Drink beyond your thirst’s needs

Listen to spirits that favor you and offend not Those that oppose you

Absorb yourself in an activity worthy of your unique Talent,

and develop as many common Potentialities as you desire and can

Whatever you do, do it as well as you can

Live comfortably with your conscience, And be at peace with your soul

Be courageous in life, while always respecting Death’s luring and lurking 

Rest when tired and think when you are uncertain

Be kind to the sacredness of life and respect the Natural order of the universe

Follow no one or no thing except your own judgment

And your own divine wish

Love and respect yourself and your family

Be all you can by developing yourself

Do all you can in helping worthy others

And live a quality and meaningful life.

When the time arrives where we must pay for what we’ve done to this world, all that we’ve contributed and haven’t contributed to the land on that which we place our feet, and the air for which we so selfishly take for granted. When it comes time for us to come face to face with our fate for all that we have done, will the argument at that time, be race?