There is a huge difference between growing up and being raised. Perfectly quoted “It takes a village to raise a child” it’s impact alone yield astronomical results in the adult years. Most people that are incarcerated are not bad people, they just made poor decisions. We make bad decisions, for the lack of not knowing. While we are busy with our personal lives careers and passions, television and social media are raising our children. We all know the negative affects of false prophets false narratives and the mental conditioning of a premature brain. Most of us grew in a repetitive cycle, of that of our family members before. This is the cycle and conditioning we must break, what worked years ago might not be relevant for today.

We grew up according to someone else beliefs and cultural dynamics, these mental conditions is why we have a generation of misunderstood bewildered individuals. Most people don’t know how to raise children or even make good decisions for themselves, how do we expect for these same people to groom the future generations? The unruly youth today is only the aftermath of their predecessors. They don’t make rational decisions because they literally don’t have a clue, you can’t expect someone to understand something when they have not mastered comprehension. In today’s society we have many illiterate children in adult bodies making adult decisions, that greatly affects the livelihood and well-being of everyone around them. If i gave a person with no financial literacy one million dollars, they would be broke within a year or two, because they lack financial literacy and discipline. Our demise is already cemented in what we don’t know, we are corpse to vital knowledge that’s essential for our ascension. What we have not learned, we can not teach the future generations. The difference between growing up and being raised are prominent an profound.

Growing up we just adapt to our surroundings and navigate life deprived. We are ignorant to what’s wrong or what’s right and live our lives according to a sheer degree of lunacy. To be raised is a collective effort, you have morals and characteristics instilled in you. You learn the difference between right and wrong, you learn what is vital and necessary for you to ascend in this life. When you are raised you understand that life is bigger than you and you are not selfish with the empowerment that’s gifted to you. We understand when we are raised that it is important, that we we empower the youth and build for generations to come. We must shampoo the brain and recondition what we have been taught over many years that hindered us greatly. The only way to change the world is to start with ourselves doing the self work, then we pass the knowledge on to our youth to promote mental elevation.

If we condition the mind the body will follow, the mind will be forever far more superior than the bicep. The youth today are only lost and make irrational decisions due to what was inserted into them mentally as a child. We must not point fingers but accept we all have work to do, the betterment of our world tomorrow starts with what we do today. Most people are not equipped with the necessities to procreate but it’s a God given privilege to do so, in result we have babies raising babies. That’s why we as people must do our part, to build a strong foundation to support the structure of our generations to come. The power to change the world is not in the hands of one man or woman but us the people as a collective whole. Capability and actuality is what separates thought from decision!

Gregory Standley