Brunei Princess and one of their interns showed this girl this video clip; its not new, really, its been blogged about, shared on facebook and received its fair amount of due press from the general online community.
This girl spent pretty much the last 15 years working with youths. First, while as a youth herself; then later in a more instructive role, then a more mentorship one. She’s worked with youths here in Singapore, in most parts of Southeast Asia, in Europe, in the States and has seen how similar- and yet dissimilar- they all are. There’s always the group that falls by the wayside, the group that remains a child always, the group that is forced to grow up a little faster than they should, the group that takes center-stage, the group that stands in the shadows… And each, tries to find their place in this world, their little corner of the sky.
And this girl is left to wonder if there’s enough of those that bother to truly make a difference. There’s a secondary movement- if one can even call it that- that was birth in the States in the lead up of the seminal 2008 elections. They are called Generation We. Generation We is more than the birth of a new generation, its a movement from the single most powerful voting bloc. And if the rest of the world just stops to think about it, it is the emergence of what could potentially be- politically, economically, socially- the most powerful force that needs to- but has yet to be- harnessed.
