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Impossibility is in the mind of the able

It is without doughty that We are living at a time that is both exciting and agonizing. The times are exciting because life today is generally characterized by greater opportunities, sharing of knowledge, the growing influence of science and technology, connectivity, networking, economic growth, development in living standards, spiritual quest, and much more. The present-day is also agonizingly marred by individualism, secularism, lopsided growth, communalism, materialism, biased news, superficiality, consumerism and waste, violence, growing stress of living, haste, injustice, etc.

However, we are called to find opportunities in such times let our disability to learning, travel, walk, talk, visiting our lovely ones, the low salaries, etc, because of the pandemic and after the pandemic not to be our inability to living a happy and joyful life. Zul from Indonesia is a clear manifestation that impossibility is in the mind of the able. Let us remind each other that we can create opportunities from our disabilities not to be defined by our inability to act.

I believe this is an invitation of the universal apostolic preference when dealing with the youth despite the push and the pull of conflicting ideas and notions, values, and options faced by them today. The paths before them are varied and can direct their destinies towards unimagined and unexpected outcomes. The youth need a credible vision for life and real role models who will shed light on their paths as they go through life.

Vincent Mpoza, S.J.