I'm a pretty passive person. So I have a hard problem with the idea of pride.
But I’ve realized that pride is a collective experience, and to be truly proud of yourself is hard.
We are living in a pretty scary world right now, everything natural is being destroyed, or manipulated or contaminated... but we only see the facility of our lifestyle. Choose to look at any of the items you "own", ask yourself "where is this from, who made it? what is it even made of? and how can this cost so little if it took so many people to create?" If you can find one item in your room that you know the answers to all these questions, I am impressed.
Now before you decide stop reading this blog because it sounds like another extremist point of view on how we should be saving the world... stay with me. I'm not saying that we should all get together, hold hands and sing "O siem".
I know that we all need money. We all need a job. We need to be successful. We need to payoff student loan debt. We need live quickly in the world right now. We need to provide for our family. But we also need to be proud to be alive.
This is my personal opinion I might be wrong. But if you can't prove me wrong, can you help me by doing something we can be proud of? Can we show the rest of the word that the youth care about our future and the future after that?
Just look around you Adie. Things are beautiful and wonderful. Consumerism can be crass and we all buy things we don't need from time to time, but it doesn't make it wrong, unjust, or irresponsible. It is easy to find the things we all don't like in society but harder to see the things that we like and take for granted. Capitalism is not going away. The burden of youth sometimes is the desire to make change without the life experience to guide us.
ReplyDelete