path_of_one
Embracing the Mystery
LOL- it's OK to highjack, flow. We did it above for a while about accents. It seems to be how this thread runs, since the original poster, Nevermore, has not returned to our conversation.
And fear has always been there, of course, but it seems like a few things are getting worse in the US. More and more I see the older adults (i.e., 30s-50s) taking advantage of teenagers sexually, many of it older male-younger female but a growing number of older female-younger male as well. There are also a lot of teenaged boys taking advantage of teenaged girls. I also see a lot of parents who don't seem to have a clue about what their kids are experiencing or going through, and sadly, sometimes seem to care more about the appearance of a happy family than really having one. I don't think it was the norm 40-50 years ago in the US to have kids betrayed so much by the time they graduated high school. Yes, perhaps they went off to war at 18 and found a lot of fear and death and violence there. But it is not the same thing as finding it among your own community where you are supposed to be protected and safe. Of course, the kids aren't innocent bystanders- they're bringing guns to school and getting into fights, many experimenting with drugs (an amazing number of honors students are into drugs big-time, and more often have the money to buy them), etc. But my point is that first, there is a societal reason for that. And second, that it affects even the kids who are trying to be good and responsible- no one really escapes it, because you're surrounded by it.
And fear has always been there, of course, but it seems like a few things are getting worse in the US. More and more I see the older adults (i.e., 30s-50s) taking advantage of teenagers sexually, many of it older male-younger female but a growing number of older female-younger male as well. There are also a lot of teenaged boys taking advantage of teenaged girls. I also see a lot of parents who don't seem to have a clue about what their kids are experiencing or going through, and sadly, sometimes seem to care more about the appearance of a happy family than really having one. I don't think it was the norm 40-50 years ago in the US to have kids betrayed so much by the time they graduated high school. Yes, perhaps they went off to war at 18 and found a lot of fear and death and violence there. But it is not the same thing as finding it among your own community where you are supposed to be protected and safe. Of course, the kids aren't innocent bystanders- they're bringing guns to school and getting into fights, many experimenting with drugs (an amazing number of honors students are into drugs big-time, and more often have the money to buy them), etc. But my point is that first, there is a societal reason for that. And second, that it affects even the kids who are trying to be good and responsible- no one really escapes it, because you're surrounded by it.
