Pi Kielty’s Mandates for the Youth

 

Pi Kielty’s Mandates for the Youth

By Pi Kietly,

p.h., 2023

Dear Young People,

Please, take these mandates seriously, and consider using them in your journey in this existence. I learned them, too late, and I always learned them the hard, bitter way; sometimes even sadly, or in tragedy. I hope they help you to grow up and become a happier person, no matter what.

Mandate One: Take educating yourself seriously. Learn as much as you can, do it always, and in any way possible. Stay teachable. Absorb wisdom from the lessons of others. It make things easier, and it lessens the inevitable pain in life. Knowledge determines destiny.

Mandate Two: Stay physically fit. Take care of and respect your health. Build strength and your moral determination to persist. These actions also build better character and attitude. In your body, you own the only ship in your storms, and that vessel will keep your life afloat. Only your body and mind will take you where you want or need to go in life.

Mandate Three: Help your friends and family and neighbors, because where you live affects you the most, and you can help that place in positive ways—if you choose. Own the right and responsibility to care about, serve, and protect others, especially those in need. We must live here together, or we will all perish alone.

Mandate Four: Stay involved and participate in civic affairs. Exercise the ownership of your rights and privileges, your responsibilities and duties, or else those will all disappear if not maintained with vigilance. When lost they will vanish for everyone and forever. Become peaceful warriors for: justice, fairness, tolerance, and empathy. At the end of everything, leave the better world for those to come after you. Do not let hate and indifference destroy our homes. Forgive the past and the present, or no one will have a future.

Sincerely yours,

[Signed]

Pi Kielty