In today's episode, we're going to walk through Freedom & The Young.

Freedom is a state of being in a country where the citizens have power over the government. From a political point of view, that's what freedom is. In any situation where the government has the ultimate authority over the people, there's no freedom.

The United States has been, perhaps, the only truly free country because of our Constitution that guarantees the government works for us. Of course, it hasn't been working for us for a very long time and a key reason for that is this. We've taken our eyes off the health, well-being, and education of the young.

Being young is supposed to be, in many ways, the best years of a person's life: physically, mentally, intellectually. These are supposed to be the years of growth, branching out from your family, maturing, and finding your place in society.

Healthy young people are full of hope and promise and vibrant health, and even though every day isn't peachy, net-net they see the world as their oyster, as it ought to be, because when young people are given this space and this protection to develop they grow to be healthy links in the network of our society; they grow to be the torchbearers of freedom for the next generation and the next generation and for all of posterity to come.

But today – and for quite some time, young people are suffering – badly. And so I ask you to ponder with me these questions: What is our role in midlife to the young and how does that role help protect our freedom…