THIS BOTHERS ME (aka the lacidasical non-sense of post college lives)

ok, so i'm on facebook as well as myspace. i hardly EVER check my facebook, as that college crowd bullshit isn't my scene, and i don't really have any good friends on that site. most of my limited "friends" on my facebook are people that went to high school with me and who are curious to know that a) i'm still alive and b) what i'm up to.



so whenever i check that godforsaken site, i always have a million friend requests from these highschool people. and, thus, of course, i check out their facebooks and read about them, and look at their pics, ect, cuz i'm curious too as to what all of those people have done with their lives, and how their lives compare in relation to mine.



mostly, i've felt LET DOWN by my peers. NONE of them, save a few, have done ANYTHING with their lives beyond graduate from college and get a serious bf/gf and perhaps pop out a kid. very few of them have travelled, less have involved themselves with any meaningful life activities, and NONE of them are noteworthy young adults.



and here's the weirdest deal: 99% of them are typical midamerican, conservative hardcore christian people. now, i am not going to be THAT PERSON that hates you because you are religious, because that is the equivlent of being racsict and sexist and, in general, i try not to hate, and especially not to hate for no reason. HOWEVER, the thing that bothers me here is that these kids aren't trying to change the status quo. they are not progessing forward in their lives, with their thoughts, or with mankind's search of the ultimate truth. they are BECOMING CLONES OF THEIR PARENTS. they are accepting the fate of "growing up" and getting a job, going to church, hating everything their religion preaches is wrong, getting married, popping out a kid, and then growing old and dying.



it's bothering me a lot that NONE of these kids, who some of which are SUPER INTELLIGENT and SUPER BRILLIANT, can see the cliche that they are becoming. none of them are fighting to change the world or to look outside the pastures in which they were raised. they are CONTENT to just do what they are told, and to buy into the system, take without question a religion that their family TOLD them to believe, and to play the ultimate game of suburban LIFE.



i thought my generation was cooler and smarter and shrewder and more driven than that. i thought we were questioners, truth seekers, and breakers of the status quo. all that i see, from reading my peers profiles, is an escapist, sheepish mentality.



NO BALLS. NO COURAGE. intelligence that isn't used to be innovative or groud breaking, but rather, to perpetuate the lies in which we were all born into.



our reality is peppered with untruths, or half truths, or blantant lies. the brightest minds of my generation should be tearing down the black curtains of our fathers pasts and uncovering the mysteries of today. they shouldn't be stuck in cubicles, writing stupid computer programs, or working at meryill linch selling insurance, or whatever meryill linch does.



you all dissappoint me. have we gone so far, and progessed so little? what is the point of brilliance if all we do is throw it into projects and businesses that only appreciate it in the way that it helps their "customer realtions".



THIS IS BULLSHIT. i want all of you to stand up and QUESTION why in the fuck you are doing what you are doing? why are you following the belief system of your parents, when, all throughout your childhood, your parents were the most miserable creatures you knew? why do you think that in an age of technology and abstract spirituality, that you MUST conform to tradtiontional and oppressive organized religions? are you THAT COMPLACENT that you're willing to sarcafice your entire life in a pursuit of.....what? mediocracy? a legacy involving an IRA, retirement, social security, and perhaps, maybe, and employee of the month plaque? is social conformity THAT important to you that you'd risk living your entire life as an automon simply to.....? i don't understand WHY.



but maybe i'm the stupid one. i always get in trouble for THINKING. for asking too many questions. for never being content to settle for some information until i prove it to myself to be true. i'm the one never content in things because i always feel there is more to be learned and different views of things to be uncovered.



i guess there are drawbacks either way you go. all that i'm saying is that having ideals and having goals and breaking the status quo and redefining it in ways more condusive to an intelligent, educated, and open society is worth, to me, risking common society's rejection of myself.



in essance, HAVE A CAUSE. that's more important than having a job. more important than having an education.



more important than success. because beliving in something, whether it be to stop animal abuse, to challenge the government, or to promote mental health awareness, will CHALLENGE YOU to be a better person, to continually learn and provide a conduit for your creative engeries and forces.



keep them all honed. a revolution is in our future. gas prices are spirialling upward while our economy is in a downhill slide. revolt is in the air. our people aren't going to be able to continue their way of life in the US if things keep going the way they are. things are going to change, and to change DRASITCALLY.



do you want to be on the forfront of this tidal wave, or be one of the one's it washes away?

it's time to start building a new world for ourselves. the old one is failing. being young, we need to join together and to build this new world.

but with so many stuck in the old one, how are we to do that?

anyways, my thoughts RIGHT NOW.



suz