The urgency of now!

Many young people have been hoodwinked by their leaders or mis-leaders for that matter, since time immemorial into believing that theirs is a promised future leadership and as such they have to wait for some "future day" for them to offer leadership. I take great exception to that and consider it an insult for several simple reasons:
First and foremost, we are living now and not in the future, and therefore our relevance and contribution in our societies are needed now more than ever and not tomorrow or some unknown future. Talk of globalization, climate change and terrorism among others. These are issues at the core of young people's lives and any wise government out there still in slumber better wake up and smell the coffee. We can only hope for a better future but in the interim, we should be building our present.

Secondly, there is a notion that has gained currency in our society and being peddled by our octogenarian folks who have refused to let go of the reigns of power that we are not ready just yet. They have brainwashed young folks into believing that they are wet behind their ears and incompetent to boot for them to take charge of their present life. There is no aorta of truth to that hogwash and any young man and woman out there should know that they are even more capable of driving the development agenda anywhere as long as they are educated, responsible and energetic considering that they form the greatest majority in any society. Furthermore, we are currently talking of issues ranging from globalization to one common market system which has been made possible thanks to the recent advanced developments in the internet technology. These are issues affecting young people directly and almost exclusively considering that they form a bulk of the consumers and key players in these technological developments and innovations. Many of these oldies are completely averse to the benefits of computer technology and would rather maintain the status-quo manifested through the paper work which has been known to breed graft due to its rigidity and red tape nature.

Thirdly, the many ills that have afflicted the cosmos in the 21st century have hit young people the hardest. From the impacts of HIV/AIDS, hunger and wars to the global economic crunch. All these have jeopardized the future of many young people by eating into their savings while rendering many unemployed. Indeed their futures look bleaker now than any other time in history!
With these and many more in mind, we cannot afford to loose our present successes now for a rosy future that has been promised. In Kenya, the government is talking about Vision 2030. As much as this sounds as a noble and loadable idea, its intentions look suspicious at face value. A critical evaluation of it would discover that, this is just one of those many delaying tactics employed by desperate governments to appear to be in control while in reality what they are doing is synonymous to lifting the dangled carrot a notch high to those who are desperately in dire need of it and sadly these are the youth. If they (Government(s)) were serious about the welfare of the young folks, they would have come up with pragmatic workable plans that don't exceed five years. That way we can evaluate them on time and take the necessary measures in areas where accountability is lacking.
We need short and measurable goals not grand plans which are projected into some unlikely future.
We need to be responsibly young people in order to take charge of our destiny.
We need to work on this with the urgency of now.