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To My Generation MAG
We are powerful.
Our generation is powerful, right now. We have the ability to change the world even though we are only teenagers. Let me tell you why.
Eventually our generation will inherit the world of our parents. Then we are faced with some serious problems. Our world is suffering serious environmental consequences, we are plagued with wars and violence – we will inherit chaos. So what can we do about it now? Some people tell me that because we are teenagers we don't have a voice. Actually they are dead wrong. We do have a voice!
With that voice we can change the world. We can fix the environment by suggesting and creating new energy sources. We can stop terrorist organizations in their tracks by uniting our generation, our nation, our world against them. We can communicate with people our age in the Middle East and the rest of the world. We can say, stop this! We can talk to people our age, young people who the terrorists are trying to recruit. We, better than any other government or army in the world, can stop global terrorism.
With that voice, we can take command of our nation's broken government, a system of constant arguments, and turn it around. We are all residents and most of us are citizens, correct? Well then we have power to change things!
I for one am sick and tired of looking at the news and seeing disaster after disaster, and when I try to talk to friends about it, all they seem to care about are video games. I am not going to sit back and let our world die. I won't! Call me crazy. But if we won't change the world, who will? Who are we going to allow to change our planet? Some terrorist? Or us?
In the end, it's our choice. And in the end, no one but us will be to blame unless we act. Just remember, we are not powerless. We can change the world. Who is with me?
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I have been thinking the same thing, and I am sure thousands of other teenagers around the world have been too. It is our chance to change the world, to correct the mistakes that have been made in the past. Life should be filled with love and light, not hate and darkness. I have heard many things about what is coming to our generation... talk of world war 3.. & who knows what other secrets lay within the goverments hands. I am an 18 year old Canadian Citizen, and I want change.
We all need to come together and make a plan for what we can do. You mention writing to people our age in foriegn countries, proposing peace and unity. How can we accomplish this? I am sure thousands of people wish to do something.. but dont know where to start.
I am with you on this, and I know there are kind, good hearted kids out there just like us. That want change for the world.
The last thing I want is to have no voice, I read this today on a blog ...
"what they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world."
I believe we have an oppertunity to unite the world !
Thanks so much for your comment! It is helpful to see that others share my opinion
Spot on.
Our generation is so selfish, we don't give a crap what is happening in the world (When I say 'we', I mean them - not me, because I care).
You ask the general Generation Y kid what is happening on the other side of the world - and they don't have a clue! Nor do they really show any interest!
Makes me sad and mad.
I completely agree.
I loved how you said all your friends seem to only care about video games - so true.
I really don't like our generation - but what can you do? One day the rest of them will wake up.
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