Random Rant
so its been a while.
I find myself contemplating my morals and values more and more the past year. I am becoming more self-aware which in turn is making me more aware of the things and people around me. I find it harder now to take stands on issues because often times the things that I believe have to happen do not coincide with the things that I believe should happen. Nor do I feel that I or anyone else can make the types of decisions that are based on morals and values because of lack of wisdom. Our whole lives people have been saying I'm right and you're wrong because I'm old and you're young, yet experience has led me to believe that no one, especially my parents, know what is ultimately right. Thus I find myself in need of moral flexibility to be able to handle the things that life has thrown my way.
I feel like our society is no longer meeting the needs of its people, and that a radical change is on its way. Yet I find myself unable to figure out what I want to do about it. I feel neither qualified nor prepared to make the decisions that I am facing, yet I find it hard to believe that anyone is qualified and prepared to make any decision. People are constantly down on our generation saying that we are narcissistic and shallow, yet we are only what their vast knowledge and experience has yielded. People want to be told what to do and what to believe and it is easier to accept the things that people tell you are right and wrong, rather than to examine your own moral fiber but we are at a dangerous crossroads and the necessary steps need to be taken.
The values that are upheld in America are not the values that I have, yet I have no real course of action to change the things that are valued. So I am stuck feeling bad about disobeying laws that make no sense to me in the first place. America was founded by a group of people that believed that they had it figured out better than the people before them. Rather than promoting the same type of thought that made our country in the first place, it seems that we are holding on to the ideas of the dead. When our forefathers made this country they made it because they wanted somewhere where they were free to think and govern themselves. Thus the biggest act of patriotism that we can perform for our country is to encourage free thinkers and strive to become one. People are pleading for us to stand up for our country and our rights, yet we take no real advantage of our rights or the freedom that our country affords us.
I find myself contemplating my morals and values more and more the past year. I am becoming more self-aware which in turn is making me more aware of the things and people around me. I find it harder now to take stands on issues because often times the things that I believe have to happen do not coincide with the things that I believe should happen. Nor do I feel that I or anyone else can make the types of decisions that are based on morals and values because of lack of wisdom. Our whole lives people have been saying I'm right and you're wrong because I'm old and you're young, yet experience has led me to believe that no one, especially my parents, know what is ultimately right. Thus I find myself in need of moral flexibility to be able to handle the things that life has thrown my way.
I feel like our society is no longer meeting the needs of its people, and that a radical change is on its way. Yet I find myself unable to figure out what I want to do about it. I feel neither qualified nor prepared to make the decisions that I am facing, yet I find it hard to believe that anyone is qualified and prepared to make any decision. People are constantly down on our generation saying that we are narcissistic and shallow, yet we are only what their vast knowledge and experience has yielded. People want to be told what to do and what to believe and it is easier to accept the things that people tell you are right and wrong, rather than to examine your own moral fiber but we are at a dangerous crossroads and the necessary steps need to be taken.
The values that are upheld in America are not the values that I have, yet I have no real course of action to change the things that are valued. So I am stuck feeling bad about disobeying laws that make no sense to me in the first place. America was founded by a group of people that believed that they had it figured out better than the people before them. Rather than promoting the same type of thought that made our country in the first place, it seems that we are holding on to the ideas of the dead. When our forefathers made this country they made it because they wanted somewhere where they were free to think and govern themselves. Thus the biggest act of patriotism that we can perform for our country is to encourage free thinkers and strive to become one. People are pleading for us to stand up for our country and our rights, yet we take no real advantage of our rights or the freedom that our country affords us.