“Youth
is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”
-Coco Chanel
Far too many people see
youth as some kind of disability. They look at someone in his or her
mid twenties and assume that this person is too inexperienced to
believe he or she is just as good) or even better) everyone else.
When I hear such things, I get distressed, angered and nauseated.
While there are a great number of young people all across the
country--and the world--which believe they are the greatest thing
since sliced bread, there are also tons of youths who are open to
the understanding that they do not in fact know it all.
It
is about time that we put aside the dangerous stereotype that youth
means inexperience and that inexperience is a mammoth negative. When
I see a young person, I don’t see inexperience; I see a blank canvas
waiting for a painter. When I see a young person, I see an empty
sketch book waiting for an artist. When I see a young person, with a
flurry of experience or just five days experience, I see a notebook
waiting for a writer. So, when you see a young person enthusiastic
to work and learn, think about what he CAN be taught rather than
what he doesn't know.
Let’s be optimistic rather than pessimistic.
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are
doomed if you don't try."
-Beverly Sills
