Free Entry 1 (Week 1)

I feel like there are so many things people nowadays do not pay attention to. Including myself. I hardly ever read the news...much less watch it. If there is something better on, like Criminal Minds, or CSI or even Modern Family, you bet your bippy (as my grandmother loves to say) I am watching that before I watch Amanda Davis on Fox Five or Jovita Moore on WSB-TV...I didn't even know these people. I had to Google them. How sad is that? What is our society coming to? Or at least our generation...who would rather play a video game or watch a funny comedy show...wait! scratch funny...that is the whole adjective thing that Professor Davidson talked about...funny comedy show...as opposed to a depressing comedy show? Let me try again: a whimsical comedy show? an Emmy winning comedy show? whatever...the point is: our generation is slowly killing our brain cells and we all are offenders. I go back to the phrase that Davidson wrote on the board after the quiz on tuesday "You are writers. WRITE!" He even underlined "write" twice!! I laughed to myself because even though I call myself a writer, I have trained myself to not write in situations where is isn't "appropriate." Society, I feel, is flawed in their sense of what is appropriate and what is not. I feel kids think it isn't appropriate for them to be worried about what is happening in society, because they are just kids! It isn't their responsibility to worry about the Occupy Wallstreet, or the SOPA thing that is going on...again I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT IS! That is actually what prompted me to write this entry. The whole "Wikipedia goes black for a day" and all my friends on Facebook posting articles and statuses about "you need to worry about these bills because it will censor your words!" I feel so out of the loop because I don't pay attention to what is going on in the world these days.
The point of this entry, after all the tangents and all the ranting, was basically to show that, to me, society has always tried to keep kids from worrying about adult things until they have to...but for me, I feel like when we HAVE to start worrying about adult things is when it has become too late and we will never get caught up with all the stuff that is occurring and we will never fully understand. This could be just me. But I worry about society and all the future generations who may just be getting lazier and lazier...we need to start focusing on what is really going on in the world, because, as I have recently come to understand, it is our generation who will have to deal with it all and end up making a change. So that is another one of my goals for myself- FOCUS ON WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD SO I CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON...because I am not a kid anymore. I have to start becoming more of an adult...just add it to my list of things to do...