from the day you were born in this world, you were born into a contest,
from the moment a cry of a baby was heard on earth (you), the candle of life started burning.
but guess what?,
as everyday goes by the candle burns (life goes on, and times passes by),
the worst part of it is that we cant stop it from buring,
but the good thing is that we can make it burn slowly,
and how do we do that?, its simple.
whenever we go wrong or sin against God the candle of life burns so fast, bcos it wants to wipe you away from the surface of the earth, but when you do good things it burns slowly, bcos God wants you to keep up the good work, and also when u love ur neighbor as u love ur self it makes ur days last on earth,
so do u want to keep the candle burning slowly?
then do good things, and love ur neighbor as u love ur self.., and u will live long long on earth to the glory of GOd! candle of life

make sure your candle of life is burning slow, how is urs burning right now?.

A Youth should know all the below mentioned points to help him/her reach for a greater hight in life, a youth is not expected to be in an amble manner considering the fact that alot is to be done and put right in his life.A youth should also learn to be homely, ehich humblenes and humility comes in, this two words should really be put into consideration and practice by a youth, because it also applies in the general life today.
For one to rise in life you just have to be humble, and above all take away pride form anything he/her is engaged with in life, because once a youth puts pride before all his en devour in life, then there come his downfall. his ears will will be locked towards listening to advices and taking corrections, another factor of becoming a great youth in life is yielding to advice, taking to corrections, and also admitting his mistakes to move on.
A youth should also hunkerdown for the challenges to come his way, becasue lake of preparation leads to failure, quoting from a good staying, it says and i quote: "When you fail to plan, then your planning to fail", most youths today wants an already made life, none wants to work hard to be a better person in life.
For instance high population of fraudlent activites done majority are by youths who has refused to go into the lass room to learn, and become somebody great in life, but instead wants fast income of money, and the only way thoughtful to them is indulging them selves into fraudlent activities. a youth should also come to realise his/her dreams fast enough to enable build a strong and better foundation to live on, there is something else i would like to point out here, and that is: "Realising a Dream, and Achieving a Dream". these two words are different and should be put right, else might turn out to confuse alot of youths.
there is a difference one realising his/her dreams and achieving it, you can realise your dreams but yet not be achieved.
Realising your dreams in life is knowing your purpose in life and what you want to become, and achieving a dream is working towards your purpose in life, and what you want to become.Therefore: you cannot achieve your dreams in life without realising it at first.
please if you have any addition to what i have written, do feel free to contribute your opinion is welcomed.

Thanks.