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Youth

Youth. Written 05-10-06 By M. Aaron Hein.

Youth is inexperience, bravado, indecision and material love. Essentially, it is of the choices we make as the young in society. It is a known fact that the saving rate here in America is unacceptably low. Why do we complicate things when they should be straightforward and simple? We only have *one* childhood and we’re wasting it trying to act ‘our age’.

It is with grief that I sit here typing,
thinking about the pointless gestures of culture
that appeared with a flash of lightining

you know, things strike you,
spontaneous acts of rebellion against ‘the system’,
against the greater society,

irony at its sweetest, or most sour,
striking one at their ‘finest’ hour

youth is invincibility, flight without worry, a tunnel with
no light at its end,

maturity is experience, knowledge of past mistakes, resent
of the past and pride of a current state

age is the measure of greatness in some cultures, reviled in
some, honored in others.

and kids nowadays, those crazy kids, dress different, act different,
talk different, yet all sound the same
listen to the culture,

the vapid,
the absorbed
the indulgent

telling them how to think, how to purchase,
what to believe while believing that what they stand for is
independence

from the corporate
from their parents
from their teachers, their principles
from the old school people who are ‘boring’ old stodgers

A false image, a shoddy facade, so transparent yet so obvious
and at the same time it means so little,

talk of character and experience by youth is heralded, but talk is cheap

two cents a minute with a monthly contract and a calling plan
there’s a few minutes of rollover and the bill’s due

but nobody wants to pay

for payment is responsibility, and that’s society’s deal
they can deal with all of that grown up stuff

I just want my mp3 player
and my favorite playlist
and my studded belt and my fiftyish gigabyte hard drive with
four million rpm pleeeeease
and I want it now.

sheesh

wait!

yeah, wait.

and prioritize
and care
and truly think out of the box - no matter how attractive the ribbon seems

and learn...appreciate the wonder of the world, that which does not come shrouded in
shrink wrap and plastic,
but of natural origin.

fin...

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