Relate

A very close friend of mine h as a mother. Surprise. Her mom and I have known each other for I don't know 4 months? Yeah sounds about right. Well she said that she couldn't understand why the youth of today(meaning me) don't know how to open up to older generations(meaning her). I assured her that I knew how to carry out conversations with people older than myself.


Today while I was at that crazy thing called school(I actually went today and sat in the auditorium for HOURS) I saw my good friend...lets call him Mister Sub. Well Mister Sub and I always have great conversations when we see each other, and today was no different. We argued about why we should be in the middle east and why we shouldn't. Basically the main argument was is a good deed done for the wrong reasons still a good deed? I mean we are over there (in my opinion) with our own agenda, but does that matter? It was a question we never concluded and still I'm wondering about it. I mean sure we have our own reasons but aren't we still doing good? The everyday life example we came up with was this one; Mister Substitute(an older gentleman has already retired) is over encumbered and needs some help walking through a door. There is a pretty little lady by me and she sees the poor man struggling. I see that she sees so for that reason and that reason alone(to impress the girl with how kind I am) I go help him with his stuff. So to sum it up, I helped an older gentleman but I did it with selfish reasons. Have I done a good thing or committed a selfish act and not gotten caught?


Then we went on to talk about the role of children in a society. A mutual friend and holocaust survivor recently spoke at my school at I was touched by her words. Not by her experience in the concentration camp as much (though by no means am I belittling that experience) but I was much more impressed with her involvement in the French Underground many years ago. She was 16 years old...thats how old I am. I was talking to Mister Substitute about how guilty I felt since she was making such a positive impact on the world and all I do is mess around on the computer and hang out with my friends. He said that my day would come when I would make a difference in the world but I was not reassured. He himself was in the army at age 17 and fighting for freedoms. I feel as though I do to little to make a positive influence. So no that I feel guilty I will be trying to make a positive influence in some small way.


Anyways the point is that I can relate to parents and older people. Not only can I but I strive for it because while its sad to think about some of these people are living history and soon we will only be able to learn from textbooks and not from actual people which makes it so much more relevant. Truly the adults that I have trouble opening up to and relating wit hare adults that I fear will somehow contact my parents and tell them all the things I would prefer to keep secret. Thats understandable right? Well thats my random rant...later days