Well I could change the world today. I could help an innocent. I could help the homeless, help the unfortunate, help someone who just needs a friend. I could save the rainforest, save an endangered species, but....
We all have the ability to each day make a difference even if it is small, but most teens, don't deny it, have more days than not that they feel the game system calling or the t.v. No-one lives in a perfect world. Even if you live in a million dollar home there is someone near that could use your help, but then why do we all choose not to. Is it the teenager instinct? Aren't we the generation that can make a difference? Or do they just say that to each generation? Isn't it true though can't each generation make a difference? Who's stopping us?
Ask yourself why aren't we acting???
I have many friends who when I come up with ideas of things we could do to help out they all seem gun-ho for it. Yet, when the day comes there always seems to be something else going on. Even when it's something simple like taking a bag of stuffed animals to this crisis nursery near our house. About a 10 minute drive there 30 minute time with the kids and 10 minute drive back seems to not fit into the schedule.
Part of our human nature is to want to help others or at least make a difference. How many of us grew up wanting to become a couch potato or a prison inmate? Very few i hope. We wanted to become the fire-fighters, the doctors, the vets, the astronaughts, the writers, and the next president sometimes wanting to do them all. At what point in our life did all of those hopes and dreams go away? Did we truley loose those ideas that we , personally, could change lives? Or did technology and other things seem to become more imediate and conveinent?
Save the world?!?... Maybe tommorow. right now i have gaming to catch up on.
By tigernight2002 - Posted on February 23rd, 2008
As much as I think the world is everyone's responsibility, I don't think people should be too preoccupied with the idea to enjoy their own lives. Life shouldn't always be so serious, and for the most part, I agree with you, yet I think there needs to be a balance.
Yeah. I do believe we all need to have fun. That is just a part of life. Im just saying taking an ocassional time out and go help out. Plus who says helping out can't be fun. It is easy to go help out with friends, adn still have fun. Or help out by doing something you enjoy. Like I personally love photography so i could go out and shoot photos of the impact our trash has on society and life or the difference between urban lifestyles and other lifestyles and make a difference through my photos.
I love to make things using the knitting looms. Every Saturday a group of friends and I meet and make hats. scarfs and even purses for different local agencies. This month we are working on hats for newborns.
It is finding what you like to do and using THAT to help others. Don't wait for your friends, I gave up on that idea many years ago. If you wait for others, in any aspect, you may never do what you want to!
"A library is a hospital for the mind." Anonymous
This is true as well. We each have our own talents.
That is amazing that you found a group of friends who enjoy the same thing and enjoy helping. I know my friends want to help. They ALL have big heart that is why i love them. I think it's the matter of fining the motivation for most of them. I have found mine. I love kids and animals, and that is where i am meant to help. It's like finding your niche in life.
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"What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!"
H. P. Lovecraft
Volunteering can change someone's life whether big or small. Last year, I volunteered in teen court and helped kids with misdeamenors get their acts together and clear their record as a minor. Last year, I also volunteered in a law summit where the law was discussed and taught. I am only a junior in high school, but I am still making a difference. Just today, I was volunteering at my community college that I attend on Saturdays. At the college, I was a group leader of a team for activities and after the activity was done, I helped clean up.
Currently in high school, I am being trained to be a mediator to de-escalate conflict amongst the students who are brought to mediation. However, I need more training before I can actual mediate two parties.
In the past year, I helped serve guests at a charity dinner. Also, in the past years I helped pack boxes of food for people, clean parks, and watch over kids at a summer camp.
What I am trying to prove here is that teens can make a difference no matter how big or small? We all have different skills that we do not utilize and we should use it to help the less fortunate or just lend a helping hand.
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lol..nice job colin
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It's really sad to see that whereas we, the younger generation, can truely make a difference in our country and defend all the rights we claim we agree and disagree with, laziness plays an even bigger role in today's time. After all, the normal response to being unable to make a difference or defend a stance is "I don't have time." Well, you WOULD have time if you weren't WASTING so much time! Thanks for the encouraging post! Have an incredible day!
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