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"I’m Ashamed to be Apart of Today’s Society”
By Kristen S. media type="youtube" key="iYhCn0jf46U" height="344" width="425" align="center"

What ever happened to talking on the phone? It seems like everywhere you go today there are people texting on their cell phones at the speed of lightening; and a lot of the time to people they have meet online and never even spoken with in real life. Why do so many people waste their time associating themselves with complete strangers? Before texting was invented, people could talk on their phones; hearing one another’s voices and feeling a more sentimental connection. The majority of text talk is bad news anyways; it has lead to the habit of text language in academic essays, miscommunications that lead to arguments, cyber bulling, and pleanty more.

Exercise and working out used to be the way to stay fit and healthy. Sadly, it seems as though it has been replaced with multiple diet pills, weight loss programs, liposuction, and eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Society and the media tells us that at 5’8” and 120lbs that you are “too fat”, and that you too can be thinner with the latest and greatest diet pill. (p.s. if it causes a breast reduction then there’s plastic surgery to cure that!) We are forced to take these procedures if we want to be “beautiful” and accepted by our society. Today it is considered unattractive and fat if you have a womanly figure rather than being grossly thin. Rarely when flipping through the pages of a magazine do I come across an obese, or even healthy looking woman. This image we aim to become has lead and will continue to lead many woman to their death unless something is done to change it.

It also seems that more and more families are falling apart today than ever before. There are always cases of married couples having multiple partners, divorces being made, and children running away. The American dream of raising a happy and healthy family is even more unrealistic than it was forty years ago. It is believed that the chance of divorce in married couples is 50%, or one out of every two married couples. People just don’t seem to think before making big decisions anymore and it leads to broken hearts, promises, and families.

I can name very few people off the top of my head that learn for the purpose of learning. It seems as though we all take rigorous courses because it’s part of the game to get into college. We stay up till three in the morning the night before an exam, cramming loads of information while drinking coffee religiously and struggling to keep our eyes open, and the purpose of all of this is only to memorize the information for the day of the test and then completely forget it all within a week of time. This is not learning, yet it is memorizing for short periods of times. Of course there are many other changes in our society today that are quite disappointing, and some that are improved, however I won’t continue to bore you. It will be interesting and a struggle to raise our children in a society similar to todays, or even worse; tomorrows.