This generation has learnt a lot from history. These are shared below. 1.) The last institution you should ever trust is your government. Question it. Always! I repeat, Always! And question it again. And again! 2.) The second institution you should equally doubt is the one allegedly governing your "soul." Religion. Question it. Always! Don't take it on faith alone. It should be provable and operational. And then you could genuinely say, Amen. 3.) The third institution you have to continuously doubt until all sides of any given story is presented and all evidence rigorously validated is the Media. It is a purveyor of propaganda and can be used either knowingly or unwittingly to mislead everyone. Doubt it until proven as well. Ask for Proof! And subject the same to the most rigorous testing. 4.) Even science is doubtful until you could prove and validate it on your own, correlated with the past, rechecked for political bias and viewed from the largest perspective. This sphere can be used as well to manipulate people especially if the powers-that-be start noticing that we are beginning to place our trust completely in it. Trust nothing in this world. The more popular something is, the more seemingly persuasive it is, the more it tries to convince you on all fronts using every amount of effort and strategy to do so...Doubt it at the very last instance and countercheck the proffered evidence, because truth is self-evident. It doesn't need to insist itself. It simply is. 5.) Almost all wars are founded on deceit. Refuse to participate in it and do not allow yourself to become someone else's human cannon and meat fodder unless you enjoy being one. Let other people fight their own silly wars. The warmongering generation is already dying, spare the next of their legacy. Please! Any leader who brainwashes his own people to subject themselves to become grinded-meat in the killing fields and to blow other humans and cities to smithereens is a deluded animal. History will prove that. Refuse to respect a deluded animal who desires to use you as his human rifle to satiate his own bloodlust. 6.) No to censorship. Deceit, manipulation and lies thrive in secrecy. Exercise your freedom of speech extensively and responsibly and allow others to do the same. You deny yourself valuable information and comprehensive decision-making if you silence others and deny them to offer what they also know. 7.) Be good and moral for whatever it is worth. You're a human being. Live up to being one or you reduce yourself to being an animal. What hurts you, do not inflict on others. Harm no one. What you deem beneficial for yourself, desire for others as well. 8.) Doubt all information until personally validated and proven. Belief should be suspended only to test it out but leave enough room for scepticism and critical analysis and personal provenance. Side with truth or something that is closest to what may be considered as truth (since even "truth" is a human approximation that can neither be arrived at both accurately nor precisely and shifts through various episteme throughout history). 9.) Nothing is definitive, all are but assumptions. Be grateful if it worked. Allow enough room for forgiveness and acceptance if it didn't. We are still young in terms of rationality. A rationally valid statement means that the power of reason is applied to all the available data of observation without any of them being suppressed or falsified for the sake of a desired result, and alas, the history of our sciences is a history of inadequate and incomplete statements, and every new insight makes possible the recognition of the inadequacies of previous propositions which offered a springboard for creating a more adequate yet tentative formulation. Hence, there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that could lead you to an entirely false conclusion. 10.) The succeeding generation (as a whole) has always proven to be much learned than the last. Respect them and do not harm them. Children are the worst enemies you could ever muster for yourself. How you treat them is how you will be treated as well when you find yourself just as vulnerable. You don't want to find yourself in the garbage dump when you're already old and weak. 11.) Study history and learn from it. And when I say learn, avoid repeating the same idiotic ideologies they have all been following and pursuing. Retain what has proven to be effective and provable. Dismiss what has proven to be catastrophic, unacceptable, ineffective or simply stupid/insane. 12.) Upgrade what is already known. Systems evolve. It should be. That's how things are. Learn to adapt to it. 13.) Ask. Especially ask, why not?! And continue asking until you get to the very root of the matter. 14.) Keep on learning. There's never enough room for learning. Ask as many things as you can. And find all the answers for it. That alone should give you enough reasons to be alive and happy with this reality. 15.) There are many layers and sides to any given thing, subject matter or conflict. Refuse to take any position until all sides, angles, facts are heard and validated. The last thing you want yourself to be trapped in is a dogmatic position founded on flimsy evidence. Ask for epistemology. And try to consider the opposing idea, in most cases, you will be surprised that the other side is equally just as right as you are. 16.) It's very difficult to be right or to determine what is right since all the rights we know so far is merely based on assumptions, approximates and is also relative, situational or subjective. In most cases, it is easier to be kind, because we generally share the same pains and pleasures. 17.) Know thyself. It's worth it. While it's impossible to know yourself fully, since you're constantly changing anyway but making the effort would reveal many things and would allow you to control more of your biological vehicle and would render you immune to unwanted external manipulation. 18.) Just because it has already been customary, does not mean it is right. Just because it is generally accepted does not mean it is appropriate. Just because it has always been, does not mean it should be so. Everything we enjoy now is in fact a by-product of several generations of changing and evolving. Re-evaluate everything. To assume that the status quo and institutionalized power structures are largely legitimate is far from historical evidence and the patterns that may be derived in it. 19.) Follow your bliss. Be happy. When you're happy, you're loving. When you're loving, you are ethical. 20.) Love. You're missing a lot when you don't. Start with yourself. You cannot fully love others until you are overflowing with it. Your hatred for others betray so much of what you hate in yourself. Love and respect yourself. In doing so, you will learn to love and respect other humans as well. 21.) The only thing that matters is what you focus on. Be selective with what you focus-on then. Life is valuable. It's a waste of life to focus on things that don't bring you the highest amount of happiness, meaning and appreciation. 22.) Both happiness and positive change starts within you. Stop waiting for the world or your environment to change or be happier for you. It never works that way. Be that change or be that happiness. 23.) Life is beautiful. It's whatever you define it to be. See it through the lens of beauty and love and your subjective experience of the same, changes. It can't be any better until you appreciate it and dance with its flow. 24.) Smile. I mean, Laugh. Things are cuter that way. 25.) Say, Thank You. A million things could have gone wrong but it turned-out right just for you.