Thunder is loud, but it is lightning that harms...

Youth, listen! If you want to be called a “Youth Leader” in today’s world of oratory influence, not being afraid to be seen and heard is your surest road, even if what you think you have to share is nothing out of the ordinary. Today, it doesn’t matter how much you think you know, without the confidence to give of your best, you are as good as ordinary to the ordinary man. 

However, your inability to awaken attention should not be seen as a liability; people are different, and in these last days of yesterday, people are likely to like a thing only when it is done by the people they like. In high school, I had classmates who never raised a hand to answer a question, but today, those people are this country’s finest minds. 

Let me be allegorical lest I sound judgemental. Between thunder and lightning, there is a difference. Thunder is loud, it is rumbling and crashing, and because it comes with the bright flashes of lightning, it usually takes the limelight, and people panic about it more than the high voltage in lightning’s natural electrical discharge, but have you ever seen an object struck by lightning? Trust me, you’ll be scared stiff.