Old age is not a curse

Why is everyone these days scared of getting old? As far as I can tell the only time we are excited to age is when we are kids. When you get to the teenage stage you are happy right where you are and do not want to leave it, and then when you turn eighteen you start doing things that only teenagers should be doing, like wearing miniskirts. It is like we are groping for the days when we all had not a care in the world except which party we were going to go to next, or so it seems. Who would not love to be carefree their whole lives? We all love to party, it is plain to see why we want to stay young forever. But the fact is, we will not. Instead of dressing like we are all sixteen and going to parties every night, how about we dress our age? I know this is easy for me to say, since I am still in my sweet fourteens, and having an easy life aside from the mountains of homework we get from school (I guess it is not that bad), but I think that those fifty year old ladies who dress in sun dresses even though they do not have the bodies for them and should have retired them years ago are just putting on a show for the world. Not many women or men can truthfully say that they can still fit into their college jeans. It is the sad truth, and we are all going to have to accept it eventually, whether we like it or not, we will age. And I do not think that that is such a bad thing really, once you are twenty or so you can get married and go on newlywed trips, which sounds like a ton of fun if you ask me. You could also have a family, which sounds like quite an adventure to me, even if it is not a senior trip. And once all those kids are grown you can go back to taking trips with your spouse and you can join those health clubs and go to parties with adults just like in high school. Life has so many different stages that it does not really matter which one you are in, you can still have fun and live the way you would want to. Of course there is the fact that as you age you get that aching back and those weak knees, everyone has those. In this I would say count yourself lucky, at least you are alive. If it you had been born five hundred years ago then you would be dead by the age thirty five. I hope that eventually I will be able to make the switch from youth to adult without too much trauma and pouting. Hardly anyone pouts, but I have seen a few. I also hope that I will not have one of those mid life crisis’s and go berserk like some people do. I think that old age is a golden age, by the time your eighty you have gained so much wisdom you could be a great scholar or something. I think what this all comes down to is that old age is not a curse, it may be the best time of your life, so don’t dread it, look forward to it with as much enthusiasm as you can muster.

Rich Americans vs. Rest of the World

So recently I was thinking about the state of our earth. Pollution, overfishing, animals going extinct, the list can go on and on. But then I thought, why is the earth like this? I recently read a graph in my Geography class at school that showed that The United States of America uses 40% of the oil the world mines each year, while the rest of the world put together uses the rest. We alone, one country in a big earth, is using 40% of the oil on our earth. It's not a wonder that we are getting global warming, and the people to blame first is ourselves. As for overfishing and extiction, we as Americans are not the only cause, but we are as much to blame or more for paying large amounts of money to eat exotic fish and animals. What could be done to help this situation? Animals are going extinct because poor villagers in faraway parts of the world are hunting them to extinction. "Stop hunting those animals you greedy villagers!" We say, bundled up in warm clothes eating at a Red Lobster restaurant. What we do not realize, is that if it were us in that situation, with our own children crying with aching stomachs because they have not eaten more than one meal a day for their entire lives, them freezing to death at night because they have no blankets in winter, we too would say "hmph, I think I will eat whatever I want." I mean what do you expect those villagers to say? "Oh ok, we will stop hunting those animals for food and blankets like you rich Americans tell us to, it does not really matter if we starve to death in a month or two or freeze to death tonight, we will just think of the happy endagered turkey that is wandering free getting plump and ready for some animal to chomp on, rather than on my table with its' feathers in a down pillow and my children fed." I think we can all see the point. How about we try this, we will all trade places with the villagers from Africa and Central America. They will come live in our million dollar air conditioned homes and eat Mcdonalds Supersize burgers and watch NFL football games on big screen televisions with surround sound and send their kids to amazing universitys and take vacation cruises to the south pacific ocean. Meanwhile, we can go live in one hundred and nine degree muggy heat near the equator in a dense rainforest fighting to survive against the elements and hunger. We will live in straw shacks or three foot tall packing crates and if it rains, it pours, and that packing crate, I am afraid, does not have much sealing in the roof, and we will get wet. So I think that I have made my point which is that it is pathetic how America can live in huge amounts of wealth while many other parts of the world are living, if you can call it living, in poverty. Now, we are aware of a problem, what can be done to solve it? Well for one thing, I am sure that every person who reads this will say: "This is awful! She is right! We need to do something, the next time i'm at a press conference, I will tell president Bush that he needs to end world hunger." THAT is NOT ENOUGH. Anybody can do that, and I am 100% certain that president Bush aready knows that world hunger must end. He is only one man, even if he has lots of power, he can not provide entire countrys with food and shelter. How about we help him? What an idea! How about we go through our storage rooms and pick out a few things that we do not really need and put them in a box and ship it to a needy country? Lets do the same with blankets, good timber for houses, and medicine. If you have time and money go over there yourself! Maybe, just maybe, if we do things like this, everything that is mentioned here will not be a reality in ten or twenty years. We have some pretty cool things around us, we have the biggest houses, and the tiniest cell phones which hve every gadget you can think of rolled into one, but how about we try helping everyone else around first?

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