🖊️ Love Life

To: (123) 456-7890 -- From: Asteri

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Song: [Ocean of Tears - Anson Seabra]

Book: [Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend]

Keywords: [life]

Just going to write a bunch here and see what comes out.

It's so infuriating to me how so few teenagers I know these days actually care about living life. Cause everyone has phones now, so they don't need to care about living; they can just be mindlessly, endlessly entertained for the rest of their lives. And my parents say, "they'll grow out of it", but will they? We're now in a generation where AI is doing jobs for people and people are becoming influencers instead of finishing college and more and more jobs are becoming automated...

I go to school and no one tries anymore. I mean, a majority of the upperclassmen have their lives together more and try, but even they are so tired all the time that they don't care as much. But my class especially... I sit in my classes and teachers ask questions and everyone just stares back blankly like there are no thoughts in their brains. Like there's just... nothing up there, because they have mindless media and friends to talk about nothing with. Or they're so full of themselves in their own worlds that they think they won't deign to respond to the teacher. Or they're too tired too.

And I know I'm judging an incredible amount about kids I don't fully understand, and maybe they all have very good reasons and are very smart, but they act like they're stupid which is what I don't get. If they prove to me that they're intelligent than more power to them, you go change the world. But they sit there and act like they're dimwits. And when we're at sports they sit on their phones or don't play the games right...

I just don't get it, really. For me, I do so much simply for the ecstasy of living. Breathing in the sunlit air... working my body in sports... answering questions in class because I know the answers... connecting with other people without technology... taking a walk in nature... I do things simply to live them. Yes, I like my phone because I can search things up and text people and go on Pinterest and take photos, and I need it, but it's not my whole life. It's a tool to further my life, but there's so many experiences I can have without it that are infinitely more powerful.

I guess the big confusing thing is how that drive is somehow an anomaly now. My innate desire to live and experience life is now an anomaly because everyone is so more focused on technology or they're depressed, or both. How did we get here? All it took was one generation of people growing up with access to the infinite world of globalized technology and connection to the world to lose our will to live for more than screens and mass media. All it took was Gen Z being raised on phones and computers for us and future generations to not care about the most core parts of living anymore. 

Anyway, I'm going to go listen to music and color or write another blog post... Enjoy life, my loves. I know at least three of you are reading this— fall in love with life again, whatever it takes. It's not easy for me either always, but we have to preserve the will to love life.

--Asteri