Wise Investments For The YouthSample

Invest in the Right Relationships

As a young person, you might have plenty of friends at this point in your life. You have your steady set of classmates you meet throughout the year whether you like them or not. But as you face that transition period from student-life to career-life later on, your inventory of friends will inevitably narrow down.

Most likely, your most intimate relationships from college and high school – the ones you’ve spent your significant moments with, are the ones you’ll make an effort keeping. So just a little piece of this advice won’t hurt: examine the friendships you keep now, are they the ones you’d rather keep in the long run? If yes, how are you working on strengthening your relationships with them now?

Another set of relationships which is far more important to take care of is that of the family. Many of us may have issues with our family especially during our adolescent stage. Perhaps, some of us may even harbor hatred or bitterness against a family member. However, in the long run, it will be our family who would stick with us and love us unconditionally regardless of how far we go in life or how much we mess up. They are the first ones to whom we will surely run to when we are left even by our friends. Therefore, we should treat our relationship with them with utmost care and importance. Let’s not wait until that point in the end of our lives when we cannot turn back time anymore to say, “How I wish I’ve spent more time with them,” or “How I wish I told them how much they mean to me!”