I started something months ago, I'm still not sure if it works or not but meh! That's the great thing about writing :)
It’s like my heart has paused. It’s there, functioning to keep my body going, but it’s not beating. At least, not like it used to. I feel as if I’m trapped underwater, with my lungs aching for air. Yet here I am, standing in a lush place full of oxygen. It’s the best place to breathe, yet I can’t. My motivation is gone. It has disappeared. Vanished. Not only do I lack the desire to move, I lack feeling. I’ve become numb. Apathy is sweeping through my veins. I don’t want to move. I don’t want to feel. And in all reality, I really don’t care.
How many of us have felt this way before? Full on, I sit here with both hands raised. In fact that has been me for the past couple of months. The more places I look and the more people I talk to, the more I am convinced that I am not alone. Apathy is something that is common, too common. Motivation is lacking in our society. We lack the will to do, to work, even to move. We expect everything to come to us at the snap of our fingers and when it doesn’t? Well, what the heck?! we may as well just sit on our butts and mope. Hard work has practically vanished. There’s a calculator to solve our math problems when we don’t feel like using our brain. A click of the right button and the computer fixes our spelling mistakes. Pop a dish into the microwave and there’s our gourmet dinner. It’s coming to the point where we don’t actually have to think. Technology does that for us. All we have to do is push a button. This seriously is concerning. If hard work is a character builder, what is sitting for hours on the internet and spending countless minutes playing video games? When the majourity of our time is spent mindlessly sitting in front of a box, how does this truly benefit us? In our society we bring laziness on ourselves. We take the easy way in and out, ignoring how mindless we are becoming. It starts out as a convenience but laziness has no motivation. And no motivation leads to an apathetic view on life.
Starting out with “I really don’t give a crap,” this feeling slowly courses its way through the rest of our brain making us numb to what is going on in the world. We look at the problems around us and automatically lack the drive to help, because its not our problem. We’ve become insensible, impassive and indifferent. When it comes to this point forget about it being just a problem, it’s an epidemic. I fear that if an antidote isn’t found, we’ll have a lost generation.
