2012

I don't know about anyone else, but for me as a person, I sure never expected that our society would become like this today.  Today all you see are headlines about celebrities dying, yet they are celebrities that we have stopped caring about, and then all of a sudden once you hear that they have passed away it seems to be the end of the world for everyone and it's all you see on news headlines for weeks and weeks.  We start to loose the sense of what's really important, like having American soldiers being sent day after day to the middle east to fight in wars that shouldn't have started in the first place, or children and families dying in Africa from hunger, or the fact that Global Warming is getting worse and worse and all we tend to care about is when the new iphone will come out or what next hollywood scandal is going to happen.  I won't lie, I'm one of those people who have become obsessed with the gossip and the Hollywood news rather than what is going on everywhere in the world, and it breaks my heart that I could be so careless and find things out today that have been really going on for months and months.  People are starting to loose jobs, and more crime is rising, but yet all we care about is who has the most friends on Facebook or who has the nicest stuff in town.  Technology has taken over more than we know. To the extent that I have to go online to make notecards on a website rather than just write a notecard by hand and the notecards are so unnecessary because they are suppose to be for a Junior English research paper.  What ever happened to just writing a simple research paper? No notecards, no online bibliography and etc.  There is not much we really can do now because it is too late, our expectations have been risen so high and so much more pressure is being put on people and due to that, you start to see more laziness, suicide, and people just taking the easy way out by taking pills or drugs to calm their nerves down.  But hey, this is 2012, all we can do is "live it up" and "hope for the best" because as long as we forget the rest, we'll make is somehow, even if it's not what we had expected as little kids.