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Growing Up in Different Worlds

Joey Jones8 Comments

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

Every generation grows up in a different world, shaped by its own noise and illusions. Today’s young live through screens, influencers, and “reality” that isn’t real, and I worry they’re losing touch with the quiet truths of nature. But my generation had its own distortions too.

So the advice I’d give my younger self, and them, is simple: hold on to what’s real, stay curious, trust your own eyes more than the world’s noise, and pay attention to the quiet things because they’re the ones that last. In the end, the task never changes. Keep your focus on what’s real, not what’s loud.

‘ Your body is your temple’

Joey Jones3 Comments

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

I have given today’s prompt so much thought. Two dog walks later and I ‘m still unsure which way to go with this.

There is so much in my head that I’d like to get written down.

Guidance for myself would have been a wonderful thing, a mentor would have been a gift.

I can see I will need to think on and hopefully come back soon to this space and fill it out with thought.

In the meantime I will finish with this, a cliche you might want to say…Not really, I’d say.

Mostly attributed to Plato but in fact said by Ian McLaren – the pen name of a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, way back when.

Today we hear a long the lines of….

‘ Be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about’.

The minister who’s name was John Watson 1850-1907 said

‘ Be pitiful for every man is fighting a hard battle’.