Eyes Wide Shut!

"Ever since we've been in this country, you've been going downhill."
"Just because a lot of people are doing it, does not make it right!!!"
"Turn to God, pray harder!"
"You are angry and you don't even realize it."
"I'm older, I know a lot more than you."
"You should be ashamed of yourself. I'm ashamed of you."
"Get out of my house. You've deceived me!"


A quick question for those of you who still read this site and its contents haven't offended any of you yet, what is your perception on what is offensive or not? Do issues and certain words become less offensive with age? Or is it the way we employ those words? Or is it because of their overdose in our society? Fact of the matter is, whenever one would see the word "fuck" in a blog or in anyone's personal diary, we would immediately associate it with them being angry or exercising an extreme feeling of hate towards their environment. After all the crimes that have been happening around our country with the school shootings and such, you can't blame people for worrying. But does the fact that we worry so much hinder our capabilities of properly analyzing the presented piece or the "evidence"? And if so, how do you tell the difference between what to disregard and the next Timothy McVeigh? These are questions that are hard to answer since human beings are very different from one another and we cannot be based on simple statistics. It just cannot happen like that. Just because the numbers show that someone exhibiting this sort of behavior will ultimately react this way is, in my opinion, completely absurd.

An important issue that comes in this matter is parents. Older, traditional, conservative parents tend to view anything introduced against their beliefs as a sign of the devil, the antichrist, depression or any other kind of psychological problems they may have read in some book by some other conservative close-minded "professional" like themselves. They believe that since they are older, they understand matters better due to some sort of experience that may relate to the issue directly or indirectly. I kid you not, most of them are right. But for some and a lot of them, that kind of delusional thinking is why that group should be in some form of modern therapy, showing them that times have changed, that matters are just not the same and not as simple as they used to be back then. Then they get a shrink for their children and that child ends up drifting even further apart from them than they had envisioned. That's when more problems come in and then, truly hell does break loose. But honestly, do we expect them to change and accept the new ways in just a snap? It takes time. Sometimes, it doesn't. Sometimes, they completely reject the whole idea the child has adopted as his own and can't even trust that child, even in the family. This happens to more people than many of us may think. Some of us don't even think this happens to our own friends, as they always smile at us all day, every day and then the sorrows plunge at home. That's when their condition truly worsen.

Now what does this mean for future generations to come? How will those children come out? How will our future be drawn? Will it be a world where our parents will feel like complete strangers and outcasts? It shouldn't be. It shouldn't be at all. As much as talking to them may seem impossible, as much as it may hurt to try, there is a way to bring them in and reason with us. Like I said before, you can't trust statistics to evaluate people. Every parent is different. Find out how to deal with yours and good luck.

(This entry is armed with one f- word. Parental guidance is suggested.)