Our Fast Paced Lives

The culture we teenagers live in today is basically based on two things, getting a lot of things done, and getting them done fast.
Everybody I know runs a schedule that wears them out, and I am no exception to this rule, two days a week I play volleyball, two more I work, another I volunteer at a non-profit called Yo! The Movement, and the other two, I try to either see my friends, pick up extra hours at work, or have to play in six-twelve hour volleyball tournaments.
Our bodies have way of telling us to stop, we need sleep, water, and food, or we will get sick. We all know the food aspect is no problem, however sleep is. I know that I have to fight to stay awake in all of my morning classes, and I know that is because I stay up until midnight or later, doing homework, knitting, talking to my friends, or looking for scholarships on fastweb so I can pay for college.
Our generation needs a slow down and it needs one now. We live in this world where everything is faster. Our food comes faster, and it comes more processed, the pages of facebook and myspace load faster than we are able to click, and nobody knows how to wait anymore. Our generation has no patience, and where will that take us? eventually nowhere. We have to hit a wall at some point, we have to slow down at some point.

But who can really blame us? If we don't get these things done who will? If I don't go to work two or three days a week, I won't be able to save up enough money to pay for college, or for that trip to Brazil I want to take this summer. If I don't play volleyball, how will I stay in shape, and when the season ends you know I will be at the YWCA every monday and thursday night, replacing my volleyball workout with my own personal one, so that I don't become another obese American.

Those are where my priorities lie, and we all have our own. College is one that most of us share however, especially on this blog.
It has been said that if we don't go to college, we will amount to nothing, our generation must go through college and must get a degree in something practical, not philosophy, or Native American studies. That will take us nowhere, no matter how interesting these majors will be.
But how are we supposed to get to college? Tuition prices are literally through the roof, my parents told me the other night that they would be unable to pay for me to go to college at all, and I actually started crying, yes, crying, in the car on the way to our friday night dinner. The thought of forking over 20-30,000 dollars for four years of an education that I may not even use, but that I want to use.
We all are facing this incredible mountain, and we all are going to need to climb it in a year or four. Trust me though, even if you are a freshman, this reality is going to rush up on your faster than you can imagine. Life does go by fast, and being on this website, trying to win scholarship money is proof to me, that I am growing up faster than I can grasp it.

My dream in life is honestly, is to travel the whole world, see everything our world has to offer, and to experience every culture our world has as well.
Hopefully our fast paced world will get me there, but hopefully, our fast paced world won't stop me from completely enjoying every moment of life, and realize that yes, it is going by fast, but yes, I can, no we can make the most of it, every second of it.

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