When you were still young child everything seemed easy as you had the world to support you Everything you wanted you got, such an innocent child they would say your parents made sure that you had all the love they could give you .You didn't care what the world thought of you but no that you have reached adulthood you feel like the world is hanging heavily on your shoulders nothing makes sense anymore. You have so many unanswered questions and when you feel like no one wants to give you straight answers you go on a quest to finding them yourself . You end up making wrong choices while trying to figure out your purpose in life some of us do find our purpose while others don't make it alive. They die while trying to find their own image. Just take a look around you what do you see, Youth are sitting at home doing nothing they cant find employment. While the world is labeling us the lost generation we drop out off schools in disparity because life is hard hen you are alone in a world that doesn't care. We end up doing drugs, young girls giving birth to intelligent gagsters. Youth are involved in gun shooting with the police while attempting to flee after they have  robbed a super market. we experiment with drags, unprotected sex and crime because we think that's the only way to gaining respect and recognition but we end up from sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/AIdS or getting locked up in the prison cells while the world is watching. We are young ambitious people trying to find our way in this world. I am one of the youth who have learned through life the hard way. I hung around with people who brought nothing but trouble in my life because I was still young and learning to fly with other birds. We are still learning to fly high; our feathers are not strong enough. Were juvenile therefore we need our parents but putting the blame on our parents  is not the way to go we first have to look at the man in the mirror and make that change because we are tommorows leaders we are the future of South Africa and if we want to see change then it has to start within us. by DINO INNOCENT MAGADA.