People (2)

There are too many people in this world who are doing jobs that they are not made out to do. Too many have given up their dreams out of convenience and their seemingly hopeless situations. While on one hand certain situations call on us to sacrifice ourselves for the betterment of the greater good, while other situations require us to look upon ourselves as a priority before anything else. No matter what you do, there will be people who will judge you based on your actions, some will call you selfish for not sacrificing, and some will call you stupid for sacrificing. What guidance do we look to when we are in such situations? I suppose all the guidance we need is within ourselves. What are my priorities? What do I care about the most? What are the pros and cons of both choices? In the end you will find that the answer has always been obvious, you just have to know what's most important to you.

On another note, I really think parents now a days are raising the next generation of pussies. Kids don't have to do anything now a days. I use to see kids pushing lawnmowers and making lemonade stands all the time, doing some honest work for some honest money. It was fun to have water gun fights outside with the neighborhood kids. Now I see none of that, everyone is inside playing their xbox. and parents have probably sued people in water gun fights for their child's feeling getting hurt by getting squirted in the face or something... It's amazing how much the world has changed in the past few decades. 70 years ago in NanJing, China. countless toddlers were bayoneted and tossed into a pile. Kids watched as their mothers and sister get raped and their fathers and brothers dragged away and murdered in unimaginable ways. At the same time, Germany was on a rampage of trying to extinct entire populations in the most inhumane ways. 40 years ago, in Vietnam, kids are put in war to murder in cold blood. They watched as napalm drops on them like rain from the sky. Scorching the forest and their fellow companions. Even now, in Iraq, in Uganda, kids are put into armies to kill, as they watch their friends slowly die out in combat, they wake up every morning wondering if they will ever wake up again the next day. I wonder if they know that there are kids who are the same age as them are in their comfortable homes half way around the world who're fussing over why the xbox live isn't working.

I'm not saying we should put our kids in a war or force them to punch each other in the face (but that would be hilarious). But they do need to be shown just how lucky they are and why they should appreciate everything they have. Stop bitching about how much your life sucks, get educated and do something with your life that you can be proud of.