I am in my late 20s and I believe I belong to the complacent generation, whose only drive is to earn money and live a comfortable lifestyle. While I know some colleagues who do volunteer work, work for a lot less than they’re worth for a cause that they fully believe in, and spend weekends in an orphanage, a great number of people in my age bracket seem to be happy that they’re getting what they want and doing what they want to do. Maybe it’s the lack of cause—we’re not challenged enough because life is so comfortable, why get up, question things and events and do something about it. Every now and then we get a jolt, like the Hello Garci and the ZTE scandal, news of wars and genocides and poverty driving people to suicide. We watch Live Aids and Bono and believe we’ve done something significant. Maybe we need more than a kick in the teeth.
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I've had similar thoughts before. Then I looked in my backyard and was faced with relatives needing money. I gave up.
Well said. Complacency will be the death of our generation.
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