An Introduction To Our Journey
By Joan Benson 10/17
It seems like these past few years we have been becoming more and more oblivious to the things happening around us. Our parents tell us all the time that we are on our phones too much and to an extent, that is true. I am in no way anti phones, because I too use mine a bit more than I should. As teens, we are social beings. It’s not unusual that we always want to talk to our friends. Our parents socialized with their friends all of the time. The only difference between us and our parents is that we have the capability to message our friends at the touch of a finger at any given time.
The downside of all of this technology is that we tend to distract ourselves with everything other than our friends. We distract ourselves with celebrities and games that aren’t as important as the big issues that are going on in the world. There are hurricanes destroying cities, people we know living in poverty, and new laws being passed in our state that a lot of us don’t know about. We have to learn to not just take in whatever we hear and believe it. We need to investigate and look for the truth. We need to ask questions and look for answers. We have to stay curious or else people who have the power in this world will try to take advantage of us and blind us from their own agendas. Not everything can be sugarcoated. Sometimes the best advice or information is the raw and uncut stuff that not everyone wants to tell you and not everyone wants to hear. Like my AP Government teacher, Mr. Laub, always says, “we don’t live in Disney World and not everything is fun and happy.”
As your new freelance reporter, my hope is that we go on this new journey together and find as much truth as we can. I’m also guilty of avoiding the things happening around me and distracting myself, though most of the time I do try to stay aware of what is going on. My job is to investigate these bigger issues and inform you about how they directly affect our generation. Even if you don’t think things like politics and the environment matter now, they will in the future and we want to preserve what is good in the world and prevent any further damage or corruption.
By Joan Benson 10/17
It seems like these past few years we have been becoming more and more oblivious to the things happening around us. Our parents tell us all the time that we are on our phones too much and to an extent, that is true. I am in no way anti phones, because I too use mine a bit more than I should. As teens, we are social beings. It’s not unusual that we always want to talk to our friends. Our parents socialized with their friends all of the time. The only difference between us and our parents is that we have the capability to message our friends at the touch of a finger at any given time.
The downside of all of this technology is that we tend to distract ourselves with everything other than our friends. We distract ourselves with celebrities and games that aren’t as important as the big issues that are going on in the world. There are hurricanes destroying cities, people we know living in poverty, and new laws being passed in our state that a lot of us don’t know about. We have to learn to not just take in whatever we hear and believe it. We need to investigate and look for the truth. We need to ask questions and look for answers. We have to stay curious or else people who have the power in this world will try to take advantage of us and blind us from their own agendas. Not everything can be sugarcoated. Sometimes the best advice or information is the raw and uncut stuff that not everyone wants to tell you and not everyone wants to hear. Like my AP Government teacher, Mr. Laub, always says, “we don’t live in Disney World and not everything is fun and happy.”
As your new freelance reporter, my hope is that we go on this new journey together and find as much truth as we can. I’m also guilty of avoiding the things happening around me and distracting myself, though most of the time I do try to stay aware of what is going on. My job is to investigate these bigger issues and inform you about how they directly affect our generation. Even if you don’t think things like politics and the environment matter now, they will in the future and we want to preserve what is good in the world and prevent any further damage or corruption.
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Thanks to Mr. Esposito for the pictures.