Communications Breakdown

While words can be hurtful, a lack of words can be just as bad or even worse, sometimes. Such is the case of my family, who never seems to say anything about what they feel. It’s kept bottled up inside, waiting to explode for who knows what occasion. I’m not saying I’m exempt from this, since I am my parents son and they’ve passed on their ways quite well, I suppose. Still, though, I crave communication. Maybe if people said what’s wrong, they’d actually FEEL better.

Augh.

That’s all I have the patience to write for now, since I’m currently frustrated with my situation.

Hopefully your morning has been better than mine.

Cheers,

-Louis

You worry too much.

http://www.acdsa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=337&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Visit this site. Be amazed, be enthralled, be grossed out, it’s your choice to make. If you don’t feel like browsing the site, well I’ll give you a summary. Someone who called themselves ‘worried’ brought up the “problem” of internet blogs, myspaces, and vampire freaks pages and has called them dangerous and disturbing. They have said that it has contributed to alcohol and drug abuse and maybe even a murder or beating. No one stood up (Except for one person, who actually presented a very good argument that the adults almost completely ignored) for the kids and what they’re doing. They also laid blame in entirely the wrong spot. Allow me to explain:

It is not the internet’s fault for your kids’ alcohol and drug abuse. Do you remember the sixties? No? Well, to be honest, me neither (me being sixteen.) From more honest sources, though, it sounds like kids were doing pretty much the same thing as they are doing now. Smoking up, listening to “hard” music to spite their parents, and generally making a slew of crazy mistakes. You know what, though? Such is life. When you’re young, you’re crazy and cool, and the LAST thing you want is to be like your parents. Then you grow out of it at some point, but by that time you don’t care.

“Don’t let school get in the way of your education,” said the famous author, Mark Twain. The reason being is that life is a learning experience. You don’t have to be perfect, you just have to learn.

Let the kids live their lives, please. Being a teenager is difficult enough without some stranger trying to interfere (if that’s the right word for making remarks behind a computer screen) with the social standing of some individuals.

The last thing I’d like to say is that the original ‘worried’ is laying blame and concern in exactly the wrong spot. It is not his or her place to voice concerns about other people’s kids. That’s the parents’ job. A note to parents: Kids are confused. Perhaps instead of hanging about on the internet, trying to audit their kids’ online activities you could tell your kids that they’ve done something well, or something. It might be appreciated.

I don’t know if I’ve got my point across or not, but hopefully I’ve given you something to think about.

Cheers,

-Louis