Mary Oliver: Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
This is the question I wish someone has posed to me in my 20s...so I'm posing it to you.
It seems like young people today are more and more burning the candle at both ends. They're not having fun unless they're drunk or faded. They waste so much time playing relationship games instead of just being happy. Or they're only out for the thrill of hooking up.
What a waste of so much energy...if only they knew how much satisfaction they would receive from being productive and helping to make this place a better world.
I guess I would have to study history to get a better perspective on social trends. I only have this generation to consider. I hear there has always been vice, caprice, and wantonness rampant within the young of every generation...but it seems so bad these days.
At the park I hear 6-12 year olds with filthy mouths, language people used to be ashamed to speak in public. Where are they learning it from, their parents and the media, of course.
There is a general lack of common courtesy in society now. Anywhere you go, the post office, the grocery store, the mall, the movies, anywhere in public, you hear foul language, rude comments to strangers, no respect for authority. It's scary.
Youth are drinking at an alarming rate....driving while intoxicated as well, thinking they are excellent drivers. Famous last words.
So my thoughts today center around action, not words. I can expound all I want here in my blog of what's wrong in the world today, but it won't do any good without action. Just what to do is the mystery that I have to uncover.
This is the question I wish someone has posed to me in my 20s...so I'm posing it to you.
It seems like young people today are more and more burning the candle at both ends. They're not having fun unless they're drunk or faded. They waste so much time playing relationship games instead of just being happy. Or they're only out for the thrill of hooking up.
What a waste of so much energy...if only they knew how much satisfaction they would receive from being productive and helping to make this place a better world.
I guess I would have to study history to get a better perspective on social trends. I only have this generation to consider. I hear there has always been vice, caprice, and wantonness rampant within the young of every generation...but it seems so bad these days.
At the park I hear 6-12 year olds with filthy mouths, language people used to be ashamed to speak in public. Where are they learning it from, their parents and the media, of course.
There is a general lack of common courtesy in society now. Anywhere you go, the post office, the grocery store, the mall, the movies, anywhere in public, you hear foul language, rude comments to strangers, no respect for authority. It's scary.
Youth are drinking at an alarming rate....driving while intoxicated as well, thinking they are excellent drivers. Famous last words.
So my thoughts today center around action, not words. I can expound all I want here in my blog of what's wrong in the world today, but it won't do any good without action. Just what to do is the mystery that I have to uncover.
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