Defining Who We Are

   If you look up "generation" in the dictionary, the definition tells us we are, "a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, and attitudes." Every generation grows up a different way: with different traditions and standards, but the world, as a whole, has always been on a downward trend. Every new generation that comes along seems to be growing up in a more toxic environment. We are always running in circles, trying to improve everything, but we never get anywhere because we continue to wade into bad habits.

  So what do our choices have to do with the world as a whole? I like to think of it in comparison to the penny effect. One penny seems so small and worthless...but when you join all the pennies together, it begins to add up to dollars, and that is definately worth something to people. Same goes for us. In comparison to this big world, our one life seems so small, but if we can put our differences aside to MAKE a difference together? Our ideas and attitude will be powerful and unstoppable. Never forget that who we are as a whole is determined by our individual choices. We are all called to be leaders in our right; to be set apart from the rest of those people who continue to go down the wrong path. We have such an amazing gift of being young, being intelligent, and being productive, and all we have to do is put it into motion...until we change the world.