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everyone knows there is only one successful influential young person
ever in the history of everything
thanks to facebook
Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire at the age of twenty three
but is he's really the only one No
so many crucial people in today's society have made their mark while they were still young
Bill Gates
wrote his first computer program when he was thirteen
and Steve Jobs founded Apple when he was in his twenties
and google
who needs to use there brain anymore when we got google - google
Larry page and Sergey Brin
set up google when they were both twenty five in a garage and now the company
has become so popular we use it's name as a verb
But it's not just technology
the great author Jane Austen wrote her first play age eighteen
and Louis Braille
worked on his alphabet for the deaf
at age fifty
yet everyday young people are having their ideas turned down and their job applications
rejected just because of their age it's easy to lose your motivation to try and
change the world when you constantly being told that you don't have enough
experience to be well anything
so what about Ireland we had our fair share of early bluemers too
James Joyce wrote his first poem age nine
though nothing special about that
I was writing poems when I was nine
but none of my characters movements have been immortalized in bronze footprints
unfortunately politics is one of those areas that you still seem very much
out of reach
we presume the people involved think that a blackberry is very practical for
texting
and that a tablet
should be taken three times a day with a meal
just because we only see images of politicians when there older doesn't mean
that the likes of collins mandela
churchill lincoln weren't active in their mid twenties even our enda was
Malala Yousafzai
when she was twelve years old she wrote to the BBC detailing the Talibans
suppression of girls right to education in pakistan
and last year the talibans shot her
she was fourteen years old
and they shot her
after being brought to the UK and undergoing extensive surgery she survived
and continues to speak out because she believes that she can make a difference
if all you did today was decide between which photos to un-tag and which ones to leave
or which hash tag perfects your tweet im not judging you were young
and you should never been photographed from that angle
but you should also know were all capable of so much
so the next time you don't feel experienced enough or
old enough to throw yourself in the deep end think of the young people who fought
back against the stereotype to achieve incredible things and ask yourself
what's your real excuse