Kay, so i'm going to rant.
WHY do people throw their lives away? I'm not talking about people in their 20s, and so on. I'm talking about people MY AGE. TEENAGERS. For instance...My class at school has, for the most part, worked very hard to become NATIONALLY recognized by one of the most respected high-school organizations in the country...after we leave, will the school fall to pieces? Some of next year's (08-09) seniors will work hard, i know they will, and I am so proud of every single one who does...but for the most part the classes below this year's (07-08) seniors just DON'T CARE.
Apathy is taking over the country!! Seriously, I know i am extrememly apathetic, perhaps a better word is lazy, compared to when i was younger. These little girls I baby-sit for do nothing all day...when I was their ages (7,8,9, and 11), my parents made me work...now they don't as much, but they still make me do clean my room/bathroom, do dishes, laundry, etc....these girls do absolutely nothing...Why? My dad is all the time talking about how my grandparents never let him do ANYTHING, but I get to do EVERYTHING...well, I pay for my activities, goshdangit!! He didn't have a job. Neither do I, I just win contests.
But, i digress.
WLC (Washinton Leadership Conference) taught me so many things...namely, that, to be a leader, you have to serve as well...It taught me that the best examples can be kids no older than myself, and even younger...I don't have to be an adult to unlock my potential...
I just dont want to sit around here anymore and watch the grass grow. I want to get out and do something to make my community, my country, my WORLD a better place...I want to give back a portion of everything that has been GIVEN to me...I don't pay for the people who love me, I don't pay for the BEST times I've ever had...I want other people, mainly small children who enjoy giving themselves swirlies (inside joke) to learn to love everyone like i TRY to...to want to give back...Is this dream too big?
I hope not.
Katie :) :) :)
- Katie
- I am Katie. -I am amazing to the people who matter. -Don't care what you think, go ahead and tell me, I will just laugh at your childishness. :) -I love my God more than anything [[church of Christ all the way :)]] -I love my family and friends and boyfriend second. -I have a few addictions [[no one is perfect]] -Anything else? Ask! :)
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Don't worry so much about everyone else. If YOU want to change the world, YOU WILL. It only takes 1 person to make a HUGE difference. And not all parents are the same. Some parents feel they are doing their children a favor by doing everything for them (boy, are they mistaken). Everyone will see the error of their ways in a few years, when there is no work ethic in america. But there is nothing to be done about it now, so DON'T WORRY.
Matthew 6:25-34
Do Not Worry
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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