by prakup » Thu Dec 21, 2000 12:30 am
I wannabe a millionaire. I wannabe a hot-shot. I wannabe content with my life. I wannabe the one who is looked up to by one and all. I wannabe…
Is no one content with what they are? Is there any end to the number of things we all want to be? Is there a single individual who is happy with his lot in life?
These questions, and the answers that crop up as a result, are important as they relate to us the problems facing the youth. Choices are many, options many more, yet discontentment is rife. Gone are the days when parental pressures were the cause of the dejection of the youth. Today, the youth are their own enemies. Maybe it’s the society that we live in. Behind all the glitz and glamour, behind the sophisticated veneer and the sheen, behind all the affluence and disposable incomes, there’s been a drastic change in the way we have begun to think. We’ve begun to think like the machines that we have become so dependent on. It’s a perform or perish world, and in the process, in the quest for better performance, we have pushed finer sentiments and feelings into the recycle bin. We have all become products in a capitalist economy that seemingly promotes the latent capabilities of an individual, but has only made us mass produced, incapable of free thinking, machines.