Saturday, 06 December 2008
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Because The World Needs Us
A friend asked me why we (high school students) should go to college.
My first thought and answer to that question was that without a degree, it's pretty hard to get a well paying job unless you were genius. (Of course this is only my opinion.) But he pointed out that it wasn't a good enough reason to go. If we all had a choice, would we really go to college? So I replied, well college is a bridge into adulthood where we will have to work and find our own way in life, no matter how pathetic our life may seem to be. My ultimate thought on college is that it's a waste of time before the real world, or a way to take in the world a bit at a time...
which is a lie. Us "younger people" take in as much as the world as the adults do. We just don't have a say.
Which leads into another conversation with a group of friends. As we were in class, not doing our work as usual, we got into a heated debate of our generation, or rather; the one we're born in.
Research it: Generation Y. Wikipedia is pretty good. Haha.
We have established that we are the most balanced group of people politically wise (more moderates) and ideawise (learned to accept). We were born to be old enough to witness the improvements in technology and embrace that, as well as live through the september eleventh attack, increase in interracial coupling, increase of tuition for colleges, the rise and fall of oil prices, economic crisis, the election of the first black male president, etc etc.
As we were talking, we then realize that it won't be long until we'll have to help change the world. We've been taught since young to think outside the box, to think of new ideas to help save the world, to solve problems in the community, the idea-makers. What pisses me off is that it always gets worse before it gets better. I'm not saying I have the greatest ideas at all, but a lot of my friends do. Listening to them gives me a slim chance of hope for the future. That being said, I'm almost hoping to grow up faster so that our voices can be heard.
Who would listen to a sixteen to seventeen year old high school student? Really. Who would? We're teenagers, the people who are not responsible, not in-tune with the news, unable to take care of ourselves, etc etc. Yet we care for our future.
For now, I know many who get away from everything. Run away and live in the country forever, to live in peace. Who want to run away from the troubles and stresses of just wondering what kind of world we will live in the future. But we can't run away, because that's just telling the world that people who was made to help has given up. What has the world come down to?
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