Look also at the good side of youths

We are always complaining about the youths of today. Sadly, in our eyes they never do anything right! To a lot of people, youth equals drugs, alcohol, too much sex on their mind or leaving their rooms in a state as if the Titanic rammed straight into it instead of an iceberg.

We actually sneer the clothes they wear, the way they do their hair, the language they use, even if they use it in the form of an endearment, and some even go as far as to look forward to reading or hearing on the news about some kind of crime some still wet-behind-the-ears kind of guy committed.

We always expect the very worst of them. Very, very rarely do we find the time to applaud the young ones of today for some heroic act they perform. Even as parents, more often than not we scream or yell at them and when one of our offspring happens to care enough about humanity to do something deemed "a good deed" all we do is wave them away in a sort of dismissive manner telling them directly that whatever they did is actually of no importance.

How mean we are! How utterly, utterly callous and heartless!

Those 11 youngsters setting off for a volunteering expedition in order to assist the sisters of Mother Teresa in Addis Ababa should be treated to standing ovations, and the LifeCycle volunteers in aid of the renal unit at Mater Dei Hospital should be called the silent heroes of today!

In all probability, all we did when we were young was pay a visit to our grandma after a long absence and even then we probably did it with an ulterior motive: some pocket money nanna would provide us with. The point of this letter is to give praise where praise is due, to remind readers that not all youths are irresponsible and selfish. Just as some adults are irresponsible while others are not, the same can be said of youths. Definitely, we should all take a leaf out of the books of some of them for the way they care for others.

The point of this letter is to highlight the fact that when youths participate in some fund-raising activity or set off on a volunteering expedition in Ethiopia or Syria, it should be truly noted by all the media. We tend to blow out of proportion the wickedness of some guys and gals but leave out the good some of them do.

God bless those young and tender hearts who try to make a better world for unfortunate people.