| "Spacing Out" |
| My generation is having major issues within itself, such as suicide and procrastination, which have been present in other generations but both are more major in this rising generation than any other. Mainly those who commit suicide are those who feel secluded, unloved, and uncared for. How many times have you walked up to someone you barely know, and asked how they were? And then how many times after that did you listen to them as they complained and then consoled them and gave them some advice, even if you were in a worse problem? Have you ever done that in your life? Not many people have, and truthfully, not many people care to because they either don�t know the person or they don�t want to know the person because they are labeled as �weirdoes� simply because they decide to be unique. Where is the line drawn between fitting in with the crowd and still being an individual? Is there a line? Can one person go back and forth on the line, can you stay on the line, or are you stuck on one side for your entire life? Many people say that when they have a particularly fun time (that is when they are adults) that they feel like kids again, that they felt �carefree�. Well being a kid isn�t being care free: we worry about a lot of things too, just not what adults might think as important anymore. We worry about fitting in, about getting work done, and about the legal battles going on over copyrighting issues on music labels and internet music sharing. We aren�t completely deaf, but sometimes we do turn a blind eye. One thing that has been particularly hard for myself to identify is why my generation has no motivation to work, as well as why we tend to end our lives �prematurely� as people would say (even though we are getting more mature by the day). I came to this conclusion watching a very enjoyable and always enlightening movie: Office Space. Some of you are probably nodding your head in agreement that it was an enjoyable movie, but are laughing that it is enlightening. Have you ever taken a moment and thought to yourself about some of the questions asked in the movie? For instance: have you asked yourself �what gets me to work better?� Have you asked yourself what you work for? Have you asked yourself whether or not your job satisfies your desires to live a happy and productive life? Are you happy with your life? If you are, you probably aren�t showing it. The majority of views of adults that kids see today are adults that are, to put it bluntly, miserable in their lives. There is always something wrong, always something to stress over, always someone else in the world doing worse and being ignored, or worse being shot. When adults everywhere are saying �I feel like a kid again�, what is it that is supposed to motivate us kids to work? Is it that chance that we might end up miserable like everyone else? Maybe if we partially work, enough to get through, then we can still have fun and still be miserable later? After all, if you�re going to be miserable after choosing between two choices (say A and B), then wouldn�t you choose the most fun (or at least less stressful) of the two choices? Just some food for thought for all you �adults� out there, as well as some �pre-adults�, from my inner workings of my brain. You may all go back to being miserable in peace. And coming from someone that recently has found happyness, I hope the rest of you can too. (Found happyness, still working on finding a motivating factor, besides failing or my parents beating me with some blunt object. Which they don't... but you never know. Well okay they won't... but still. That would be bad. O-o) -*Ends this prose*- |