I was listening to my youth pastor's sermon Wednesday night and one of his main points was "Society has lowered it's standards for you. It's almost like you are in training to one day be something great." Someday. Right now we can't be though. We are still teenagers.
But wait.. For centuries haven't teenagers played important roles in society? People my age would have families, jobs, lives. I'm not saying I'm capable of any of that. Years and years of teenagers being dubbed as irresponsible, trouble makers. Then us dutifully living up to those expectations.
It is ridiculous. This generation needs to get up off of it's fat lazy butt and do something. Where will America go if none of us are willing to excel. It's like we all want the fame without the work. Not saying I'm innocent, but now that I have stepped back a taken a look at it, I think we can do it. Get involved in a community project, or even just push yourselves during class. Prove that we are not the generation that will have it all handed to us.
Beauty.
14 years ago
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This is pretty true, us American teenagers are really doing not much to go out and CHANGE the the world. I mean, for goodness sake, Joan of Arc was 19 when she was killed. So that means she did all this crazy stuff like lead the French army when she was pretty much our age! But, of course I'm not saying we should ALL go out and do stuff like that, or even any of us, but I do think there is a lot of amazing things our generation can do if we just stand up and go do.
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