archived entries for January 2006

Friday, January 20, 2006
the circle of life
After reading the following article I couldn’t help to think about the many times I've heard my sister complain when I switched the channel to catch the Nightly News. Often accompanied with whining about how the news is boring, full of old people stuff and not as entertaining as say reruns of Friends or The Simpsons. Yet, I’ve no doubt such an aversion to the news and politics runs rampant among many, if not the majority of people in their late teens, twenties and early thirties.

The tail end of the article is what I found most obvious, yet it seems many of my counterparts couldn’t care less. I mean just look at the major policies the current administration is focused on. Outside the farce of the war on terror, everything seems to be geared toward the aging baby boomers. Social Security, prescription drug benefits, retirement and pension reforms. Couple that with this article and the continued dwindling of funds and concerns regarding secondary, post secondary and post graduate education and pretty evident that the younger generation of America is having their piece of the pie devoured by their parents and grandparents.

Then again, as the saying goes, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. And right now the retiring generation is screaming loudest to get theirs and sacrificing the future well being of the very children they’re so worried will have access to porn. Maybe it’s just a part of the circle of life. I guess really by the time we young people resolve to care less about the next American Idol, where the party’s at or the next cool gadget to get and more about things happening in the real world (no, not that retarded MTV show) we’ll be of age to be concerned about retirement and medical drug plans. But for us, our elders will have already squandered our years of paying into generational welfare. And so then we’ll just take it away from the next generation of clueless youngins.

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Thursday, January 19, 2006
holy schnikes, this is going to suck.
Jeez does time fly by or what. So the New Year has come and yet it still feels like nothing has changed. I don’t know if that’s just a personal outlook or if somehow this year seems lacking in optimism and hope in what the fresh annum would bring.

I’ve realized that I’m nearly two year’s into a job, nay career, that I see no future in. I’m just as confused as ever about what I want to do with my life, with no inkling of how to go about finding an answer. I’m still no closer to finding a wife than I was a year ago, if ever. And I think I have to have my tonsils removed. At this age am I still supposed to have this teenage-ish angst?

I hate this self pity stuff, but then again why else would I have a blog? To vent angst and wallow in existential crises? You’re damn right. And well to bitch about the continued running America into the ground that our “leaders” and very own populace seems to be hell bent on doing. If that isn’t depressing enough.

Yeah, Happy New Year to you too.

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