Kids These Days

When I say kids I mean a good portion of people between the age of 15 and 25. Over the course of the last few weeks I have been noticing a shocking trend with people around my age, they are all extremely boring. Whether I am at school, Disneyland, or just out shopping all I hear people talk about is partying, drinking, smoking, or having sex. While this is just quick spurts of conversations I have been hearing it is so common that I don't see how it could not be common all around. While those things are great and exciting there is more to life then those things. To me when I hear these things all I can think of is how no one has character. No one is talking about a great book they have read, the new hiking trail they went on, how they traveled overseas, current events, politics, social ideas, films, and so on. I have been analysing this trend and been wondering what is it's cause, where is the root of this problem. I am sure many people would take this as me just trying to act like I am better then them. I don't know maybe I am acting that way, but I surely hope not because that was not my intention. My intention is to show people that there is more then just those things and that difference is the excitement of life. Some possible answers to the cause that I have come up with are people want to be "cool" and fit in, they want to be young forever, they want to these things now before they have to settle down and be responsible, or the media.

Being "cool" is always a factor in popular trends. A lot of what people do whatever will make them "cool" and in turn popular. People just want to be loved and adored, but the understanding of these concepts are lost to these newer generations. Having a lot of drinking buddies and sex partners is not real love and adoration, it's instant gratification. It then turns to a cycle of new drinking buddies, new friends to smoke pot with, and new sex partners. A new one to replace the old one that left. A cycle that continues until you hit a realization that you will probably be lonely forever. To clarify when I say lonely I do not mean alone I mean that you have a constant emptiness that can never be filled with the current situation you are in. People will soon realize, hopefully, when they get older that people love you and adore you for whoever you are. So I would consider this a pretty big factor in the cause.

While wanting to be young has been a common trend since the beginning of time, it currently has been growing to an almost psychotic level. Cougars, milfs, gilfs, and many other names have become common terminology nowadays. These people are supposed to be the role models for these newer generations, but they are acting just like their children or grandchildren. Mothers and grandmothers going out partying with there children is just irresponsible. It is becoming more of a commonplace for these parents to be the ones who introduce sex, booze, and drugs to their children. This is a big problem, they should be teaching them both the positive and negative effects of these things instead of teaching them to just have fun and not worry about the consequences. These people just cause me to go into an insane madness. So I would consider this another big factor.

Another factor is one that is more understandable but is still just an excuse to be irresponsible and that is wanting to have all the fun now before they have to settle down and be responsible. Who says you can have no fun when you get older? Thinking that way is a little naive and also quite sad. I believe there is two ways to live you life, have all the fun now and none later or have fun throughout your whole life. It is impossible to have both because the consequences of one directly affect the other. This is just my belief. I would say this is a factor but less than the other reasons.

The last factor I believe may be the biggest is the media. The media is a big thing in everybody's life whether it be through T.V., radio, books, internet, music, movie, or anything like that. Because of this onslaught of influence constantly hitting us from all of it's various forms, media plays a big part in how we act. While it might not all be noticeable it definitely is taken all in. It decides what is right and wrong in our current society. For example throughout all media it shows that killing people is bad, while there are certain exceptions there is more that says it is bad that it is good. Unfortunately there are a few areas where it tells us bad things are good. For example drinking alcohol. Alcohol has almost no benefits and is constantly destroying lives but none of those aspects are shown in the media, especially t.v. and film. Instead it shows how cool and fun it is. In this case there is more places where it says it is good then it is bad. It then becomes a good thing in the eyes of most people.

After overhearing all of these people I have found a common theme:
A teenage boys funniest story is how how he had sex with this drunk girl.
A teenage girls funniest story is how she got wasted and can't remember anything that happened.


This is our future.