But on a different note, I realized that my entire generation is the epitome of lazy. There are a select few outliers that fight that assumption, but mostly lazy is what we are. We don't aim to create. We like to feast on and relish in the creations of the generation that preceded us, and, while writing this, I'm realizing that it truly is appealing; to never have to work for anything.
But that's so empty. I don't want to just live and die leaving nothing behind but my mistakes; because, inevitably, because we are human, we can rest assured that we will have mistakes to leave behind even if we do accomplish nothing but successfully making it to a timely death 60-80% unharmed, assuming that heart disease and/or some form of cancer will take hold of the body's ability to function as it should but not altogether stop it from moving towards that ultimate and inescapable end: death.
I don't mean to depress, I promise. This is more of a positive post, however hard it is to believe that. I mean to encourage myself, primarily, to get away from all the distractions and other things that disconnect us from human interaction and the creativity that our environment has the potential to inspire. I'm exhausted of sitting idly by and watching as others do things that I know I can, act on ideas that I've had, too.
If me and my generation are going to claim something for ourselves beside debt and the latest Apple product, I think we've got to be well-rounded. Not in the college application sense, but in the sense of being naturally well-rounded; the kind of established emotional awareness and sensibility technology robs us of.
The world today tells us that we are to be logical and sensible and without emotional bias. Or it tells us that our heart and our hormones know best. But there is a happy medium that is natural if we'd eliminate unnecessary forces.
I realize I'm babbling at this point so I'll end on this: stop reading my blog posts or anyone's blog post turn your computer off and read a book or start a journal or walk down the street and look at things. Real things
At the expense of irony:
Thanks for reading.
