A look at a certain young world
A LOOK AT A CERTAIN YOUNG WORLD
Author of the text: Felipe Santos, Salesian
I thank Felipe for sending this text for publication on Javier’s Catholic Web.
For some time, I wanted to write a few pages that would synthesize the life of a certain youth. Along with a large sector of them and they coexist a large group that lives existence in a superficial way.
Thinking of them and them, these pages try to help them discover and live life in its three fundamental aspects. Of course – according to the first sector – they guarantee you a happy life, within the limits of all human life.
A theme that is palpable in our days is the large group of young people and adults who are discontent with their way of life.
Analyzing their state – without the need for statistics, but pure and simple intuition and thousands of hours of conversation with them – the conclusion is drawn – not scientifically certain – that they are not on the highways of happiness because one of the three columns that give consistency to life fail it.
Some will be the column that I title “The world of Affections”. They give themselves so unreasonably to it that they abandon “The Work Column”. Or, they work so hard that “The Column of the Religious World” is relegated to four engagement parties: First Communions, Weddings, Burials, and Baptisms.
The current of prayer, which vivifies the believing human being, does not flow through the channels of the soul, delivered to the pleasure of consumption and to everything that makes “having” grow to the detriment of “being”.
They are short pages, symbols of a certain malaise that is spreading from day to day in very specific sectors of youth and adults these days.
These pages intend for the young person to enter into a new dynamic in which his being is balanced and does not suffer so much from the blows of unaccepted loneliness, the continuous affective ruptures and the lack of insertion in the world in which he has had to live, in the one that the religious thing is quite “parked”.
They also look for these brief reflections – in their different sections – that the young man or woman can see and take their own X-ray.
These pages end with a triple invitation: To be young in spring, to live in continuous celebration and to take the risk of doing something for themselves and for others.
Felipe Santos, Salesian
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