There’s a song called “Dear Younger Me” by a popular Christian group, Mercy Me. In listening to it one day, I began to think that the younger me should have written “Dear Older Me” in order to envision what kind of person I would have aspired to be. So when I read The Epoch Times’ offer to write wisdom to the youth, I thought I would challenge the young people in our world to do just that, to write themselves a letter.
I would encourage you to actually write three letters and put each in a time capsule, to be opened in 10, 20, and 30 years. Write not so much what you desire to do in life, but rather who you desire to become. Because regardless of whether you are rich or poor, successful or not so much, what you do doesn’t really matter if you lack character and relationships. So who you become is much more important than what you become. Hopefully, one thing on your list is to be and to have a good friend.
