I'd Love To Change the World.

Lately I've just been thinking about this world that we all live on and how we are treating our home. Instead of enjoying what's real in this world, we are obsessed with what is not real; which is everything we have essentially created. And by this I mean that the way we live our lives today has been reconstructed from influences such as the media and by generations and generations that have altered what is our normality. We obsess over ourselves and what we want in life, and show blatant disregard to the problems at hand happening around the world, because it's inevitable. We live by the golden rule: if it's not happening to ourselves or someone we know, then it might as well not be happening because we generally don't care. Sure, we'll hear about poverty and war and killings and feel sad, but thats it. We get over it and move on to the next fad. I can't blame this generation for how they are, however. We have become unlinked to the real world because of the society telling us what is acceptable. Everyone gets caught up in this routine way of thinking, because lets face it, it's all we're surrounded by. I know I sure as hell catch my self often times in life caring about the imprudent things I shouldn't, like the possession of pointless items and comparing myself to others... but am I the only one who comes to the realization that this society has lost the main idea of what living in this world is really about? I mean, no one really knows why we're here, and that's a fact. But the unknowing makes it easier to go through life to strive to help others and think selflessly. In the grand scheme of things, we were all put on this earth for whatever reason, whether we were merely organisms that evolved over time or something more, in the end we all share this home. So how can we not see that as a good enough reason to be kind to one and other, care about each other, and show concern for the things that are occurring on the same ground that we walk on everyday? I know it's hard. Like I said, I get caught up in it too. But it feels like now a days I am surrounded by people who obsess over how they are viewed over social media and their own problems... which is fine, but highschool drama is miniscule to the real issues that we need to educate ourselves on and concern ourselves with. The bottom line is we need to look out for each other and for this beautiful earth. It sucks, too, because I look at how passionate I am about changing things and cleaning up this world both literally and figuratively, and then I think about my future. I think about how many opportunities I would have to go out in the real world and actually make a difference, that is if I had the grades and the ability to earn a college degree. Let's face it- if you're not attending an Ivy league school and you have dreams that would highly benefit this world as a whole, then you might as well give those dreams up because in this messed up generation, no one will listen to what you have to say unless you prove yourself as better than everyone else.