It’s a shame, really.
There was a time in history when people genuinely cared for each other; they mutually cared more about the person standing next to them than themselves.
Unfortunately, those times are, well, history
As our cultural way of thinking gradually degenerates, the norms of a civil and mutually respectful society fade to a cesspool of selfish desires and appalling arrogance.
It is unfortunate that I am near-extolled for being such a “great kid” for doing something that ought to be what everybody should do as second nature. Although the compliment is much appreciated, it saddens me that telling my parents that I love them in public is such an unusual act these days that it merits special notice and praise.
The truth is most people of our generation need to grow up.
I’m tired of watching students give up their chance at a bright future just because they don’t take the two seconds in class to turn in the homework they already did, just because it is too daunting a task to look through their inexcusably messy backpack (which they never take the initiative or care to organize, having their Constitution test notes from eighth grade bent and folded in among all the other detritus and useless junk hidden inside).
Why don’t we exercise a scrap of self-motivation and pull it together?
I’m tired of having every other word that comes out of mouths of a prevalent preponderance of the GBHS student body be a swear word.
People swear at their friends.
They swear at themselves.
They swear at their parents.
They also swear at their dirty shoes, their slow computer, their broken pencil, their cold lunch, their bad grade, and any other number of inanimate objects. All of them are cussed out.
Swearing is no longer looked upon as the depraved and barbaric habit it truly is – it is normal.
In fact, if you don’t swear, you’re considered a one-in-a-million freak of nature who is so uptight and austere that they must have no fun or excitement in their life.
We need to grow up; learn another way to express your feelings, expand your vocabulary, and start respecting yourself, those who take care of you and everybody around you. The first step toward reforming our self-centered society is to develop an air of mutual respect and dignity.
I’m tired of a large majority of us being so narcissistic and selfish. Right now, we live in nothing less than a dog-eat-dog world. People are so obsessed with their own “pursuit of happiness” that they won’t give the light of day to anybody but themselves.
And, if they have to step on a few toes to attain their own “happiness,” so be it. Kids will cheat on a test, get caught, then end up not only punishing themselves but also the person they cheated off of. People want so much to advance their own position that any thing or person that gets in their way is merely an obstacle that must be crushed.
Society does not have to be this way.
Think about it – if everybody in the world cared about others more than themselves, couldn’t everybody still succeed and attain full happiness? We need full participation to make this work; but is this unrealistic? Am I nothing but a wisher, hoping that society might change one day?
In the immortal words of John Lennon, “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one.”
GBHS, it is time to grow up.
Not next year; not in ten years.
Now.
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