First, I want to start this with a question. Have you ever tried stopping living in your bubble of happiness to take a look around you? So many things happening out there, but no one is there to notice, no one is there to listen, and no one is there to see. It’s crazy to think that in this very second right now, someone’s dying, someone’s cheating on their wife, someone’s writing a suicide note, someone just lost their daughter, someone just got diagnosed with cancer, someone just got in a car accident, someone’s pregnant, someone did cocaine for the first time, someone just got raped, someone took another person’s life, someone hasn’t talked to their dad in years, someone’s signing divorce papers and someone killed themselves. Right there, in that very second, all of that happened somewhere out there in the world.
Things are changing for the worst and what I think is really a shame is people who want to grow up too fast. That said, let me amend my original statement to this: humanity is changing for the worst.
When I was twelve years old, I liked to read, watch T.V., and play in the street with the other kids of the neighborhood. Nowadays children that age spend the day playing video games, becoming little vandals and some of them even drink and have sex. And whenever we hear about something like that, we should think: why hurry? Why don’t kids understand they must enjoy the moment, because they won’t be twelve again?
Things like this are making me start to hate people, and it gets to a point where I don't expect anything else from anyone. It’s disappointing. Do nice, kind people with some proper brains still even exist? People who don't constantly criticize others for their actions or thoughts?
This seems to be a free society, but it really is not. Society is teaching us that no matter what size we are, we'll never be good enough. We'll always be too skinny, too fat, too short, too tall, too this, too that. Saying “How can you be sad when people have it so much worse than you?” is as ridiculous as “How can you be happy when people have it so much better than you?”
When we criticize another person, we might be leading them to doing things they might regret later. Above all, we should have in mind that we just don’t know what another person has gone through, so I personally think criticizing is a very low thing to do. Depression is not an act, eating disorders aren't phases, suicide isn’t a coward’s escape, homosexuality isn’t a disease, and self-harming is not a cry for attention.
It personally makes me happy when I see teenage girls who clearly don't fit in, and are proud of it. It gives me some hope that the future might still have some personality.
The thing is, we all blame society, but we are society, and it's our actions that matter. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. You were born an original. Don’t die a copy and help the case, spread the word, and help future generations not to fall for what it’s called “bad habits”.
