Age of Indifference
There is an age of indifference.
When you're young, there is an invincibility, and a hope that resources will come along to help you change the world. There is a frustration with those older than you, an anger at their inability to change things for the better. They should tax those people, leave those people alone. Why haven't you done more to find solutions to diseases and lack of drinking water? How on earth is there racism after what happened in WWII? Why is there hate against homosexuals? Who on earth gave you a stone to throw? I thought love the sinner hate the sin was supposed to be our motto.
And we see a infrastructure that has crumbled from lack of care. A social security that won't be there. A world that is increasingly eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, which does not/will never work. There is moral decay, and so many single parent families it scares me. Young people have heard stories about God, but have few reasons of their own to follow a God that is much more their parent's than their own.
Yeah, maybe that's depressing. But in many places, real.
As much as I want to write about giving up hope about changing things, I can't allow myself to give up hope, to enter into this age of indifference that so many freely roam in. From that age on, so many just try to make themselves comfortable. Look forward to retirement. If I ever get there...
We cannot look forward to our retirement from this struggle. We can't. We mustn't.
When you're young, there is an invincibility, and a hope that resources will come along to help you change the world. There is a frustration with those older than you, an anger at their inability to change things for the better. They should tax those people, leave those people alone. Why haven't you done more to find solutions to diseases and lack of drinking water? How on earth is there racism after what happened in WWII? Why is there hate against homosexuals? Who on earth gave you a stone to throw? I thought love the sinner hate the sin was supposed to be our motto.
And we see a infrastructure that has crumbled from lack of care. A social security that won't be there. A world that is increasingly eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, which does not/will never work. There is moral decay, and so many single parent families it scares me. Young people have heard stories about God, but have few reasons of their own to follow a God that is much more their parent's than their own.
Yeah, maybe that's depressing. But in many places, real.
As much as I want to write about giving up hope about changing things, I can't allow myself to give up hope, to enter into this age of indifference that so many freely roam in. From that age on, so many just try to make themselves comfortable. Look forward to retirement. If I ever get there...
We cannot look forward to our retirement from this struggle. We can't. We mustn't.
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