This one is for my fellow college students and young adults out there. Last Wednesday, July 27, I attended the Endless Summer Tour, which was headlined by G-Eazy. The tour also featured Logic, Yo Gotti and YG, all of whom are popular rappers. Thousands of you were there with me in Ohio, watching these guys put on, overall, a pretty sweet show. However, the show isn't what I want to focus on.

I want to talk to you all about what I saw in the crowd. A vast majority of those who attended this concert were either visibly intoxicated, or quite obviously high and/or in the act of smoking marijuana. What I'm not here to do is discuss the morality of these acts. That's something that everyone has their own opinion on. Therefore, it's not my place to tell you that it's wrong, whether I think it is or not. However, I want to encourage you to think about how you are living your lives, and consider the potential you have.

I understand we are not all the same, and we all have extremely different lives. We all enjoy different things. We all have our own passions. And we can all choose to do with that whatever we would like. We can choose to spend our time and money striving to make this world a better place. Or we can choose to spend it to satisfy our own need for some immediate sense of happiness.

I understand, I only saw all of you at a concert, where I'm sure you came in order to have a good time. For most of you, it's obvious that your idea of a good time consists of consuming copious amounts of alcohol and smoking plenty of reefer. In that moment, at that concert, you may have enjoyed the high or the feeling of carelessness. For the time being, you were satisfied. However, when you woke up the next day, remembering only half of what happened -- if anything at all -- with a headache, regretting those last two or three beers, where was your joy? Stuck in the day before? Did you wish you could be back in that moment, feeling that physical sensation you call happiness? Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe you do remember it all and have no regrets. But I can guarantee that you aren't feeling the same joy, now, that you were on that night.

Simply, I'd like to ask, where is your joy found? If you are bent on spending as much time and money as you can on alcohol and weed or your drug of choice, then I ask you, why is that? What is it that brings you back to these substances? Why would you rather do this than anything else?

You see, the satisfaction brought about by all of the above is only temporary. None of it lasts after you're tipping the can for one last drop or when your grass turns yellow. I know for a fact that you have a passion. There is something out there that you absolutely love. And if you think I'm wrong, you just need to get out there and find out what it is. I can promise you, if you find something, anything at all, that you are passionate for, then you can be satisfied in that. Whatever it is that you love to do, you should absolutely do it. Pursue it with the hardest work ethic you can imagine.

No matter how different you think your passion may be, there are others out there who will love what you are doing. You don't need to find them, either. If you do what you love, the others who love it with you will come out of their hiding spots, and make themselves known to you. Sometimes, you won't even know that those people are affected by whatever you're doing. But be confident, because if only one solitary person sees what you are doing and finds joy in it, then you've accomplished exactly what you've set forth to do. Anything else is a bonus.

If you spend your time and money pursuing this passion of yours, you will find joy in every single day, for you know you're doing something that not only you love, but that others can find joy in as well. That joy goes on in those lives forever and, therefore, your joy can continue forever. As long as you continually pursue what it is you love to do, you will find that you don't need the temporary joy of these substances. Whether you continue to do all that is entirely up to you.

Some of you may be pursuing your passion, yet you were also at the concert with me, smoking and drinking to have a good time. And that is your choice. Just remember that the time and money you are spending on that could be invested in a more eternal joy, not only for you but for anyone else you reach. Imagine if our generation was full of people who were investing in their passions. The joy spread throughout the world would be so great, that I don't think we can imagine how great our world would be.

For me -- no, for us -- please consider what I've presented to you. For the sake of our generation, take the time to find out where your passions lie. If we all delve into immediate self-satisfaction, and live our lives in order to achieve such temporary sources of enjoyment, our society will be found full of emptiness, void of joy, and longing for someone to pump life into it. Instead, let's fill it with life and joy now, so we can all go on living lives that we'll cherish and value from now until we pass it on to the next generation.