You know what they say, old habits die hard.
Our bad habits have got to go. We are digging a hole deeper and deeper for ourselves. It is time we made a change, not only for ourselves but for the generations to come. Would you be happy if your children and grandchildren were living in a generation like ours? The "soft" generation? The generation that expects everything to be handed to them? A generation that is frowned upon by society?
I think the main problem is the way we see the world. We expect so much out of it, but what you and I have failed to realize is that the world owes us nothing. I think that is one of the biggest problems we are facing, the world. This society we are living in is only bringing us down. It's funny how everyone asks us to be ourselves, but when we do that we are judged.
Another major issue for our generation is our parents. They want nothing more than to see us happy and give us a better lifestyle than what they might have had, but some are taking it too far. We're all spoiled and we have all become used to being spoon fed. I'm very guilty of this myself but I truly believe it is something we all need to work on.
Our parents are not the only ones at fault, society is also the culprit. Most people our age have never stepped foot into the workforce, and that is a major issue as well. We don't know how to work for what we want because we are so used to it being handed to us. The real world is a rough place and if we do not take a step back and try to better prepare ourselves, we are all going to have a hard time adjusting when we leave the confines of our parent's homes.
Another problem we have is social media and cell phones. We are so technology obsessed that we are losing the ability to actually sit down and talk face-to-face with someone. I'd be willing to bet you're on your phone now as your reading this, and I'd be even more willing to bet that you saw this article through Facebook or some other form of social media. We don't even watch the news anymore. The cell phone applications and the internet come in handy but we are getting too used to it. When something happens in our world, we all learn it though the grapevine of social media. We literally have the world at or fingertips, and I believe that is a blessing and a curse. Although I do think social media is helpful for families and friends in means of keeping up with each other, it is doing more harm than good. What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? Do you go out, get the paper, sit down and read it? Nope. Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, repeat. Am I right? Just being 100% honest here, I have never once, in my 20 years of living, woke up and not checked my cell phone. Our generation is going to be in a world of hurt if something ever happens to our electronics.
I hope that this will reach out to my friends and everyone else in my age group. If we do not make a change, we will one day hit rock bottom. We could lose everything in the blink of an eye, what are you going to do to prepare yourself?
