What’s happening to the world? The world we live in is falling apart. I wonder what it will be like when I’m no longer around.
What will our children have to endure? What kind of horror will show up at their doorstep? Or will it die with us? Will they see that it doesn’t have to be like this? Or will we just pass the torch to the next generation and the next, until there’s nothing left to burn? What’s happening around us? What happened to the love we had for one another? When I was a kid, it was ok to play outside and we knew if something would happen, there would always be someone there to try and stop it. The kids these days will grab their phone to record a fight, leading up to somebodies death, instead of stopping the fight and saving a life! What’s wrong with these children? Is it their parents who should teach them better? I think it is. We need to wake up now and do something about this because our children don’t teach themselves, they learn from us. SO IT IS UP TO US to teach them better! It’s the previous generation of parents who raised children with zero tolerance for people who don’t live or think like them. We’re still living in a racist world. We’re still living in a world where people can’t just walk the street without fearing for their lives. When is it time for us to start thinking for ourselves? When will we finally GROW UP and figure out why we are so bitter towards our neighbor? Why don’t we care about the things that happen in the so called third-world-countries but cry and pray when the same thing happens in a city we all would love to visit? Why do we still call them third-world-countries but refuse to give them what they need to become… better? People are dying because they don’t have enough to eat but we refuse to give up that extra scoop of rice so one of them can have it. I’m so sick of logging on to Facebook or Instagram or turning on my TV, only to see so many more have been killed; so many more have been raped; so many more families broken up and crushed because of the cruel actions of another human being. Why can’t we just stand up and change? Each and every one of us? We’re lazy! It doesn’t affect ME or MY family so why would I go out of my way to help somebody I don’t even know?
But we don’t want to be that good Samaritan. You know what I think? We’re selfish and the only way for us to care is if we would have to live in the horrible situations we refuse to acknowledge! The only way we will ever stand up for a race that’s being discriminated is if it were to happen to us and our family. The only way we will ever stand up for the women who get harassed and raped is if it were to happen to us or our mothers; sisters; daughters. The only way we will do anything for someone else is if we can relate to their pain. But how big is the chance that we will ever have to wake up in a war zone? How big is the chance that we will ever wake up in a dark alley with our drawers on our ankles without a clue of how we ended up there or what happened? How big is the chance that you will ever feel scared to walk on the sidewalk in broad daylight? We do this! We ruin people’s lives by not doing anything about it when we know we can. I’m just sick of this and I wish I would pack up and move somewhere to the middle of nowhere. But then I’d run away from it too and I’d refuse to help the ones who need help too. Share your thoughts in the comments or talk to me on social media. Use the #StraightThinking. Or email me by filling in the form on the contact page.
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stan
6/13/2016 10:13:48 am
I think it's fair to say we messed up along time ago
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