Reflections of a True Millennial

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! -- For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.                     -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow      Life is.... Well I don't really know what life is, but I know it seems pretty long. And throughout life there are a lot of places to go and a lot of people to see. Everyday contains something to do, a task to accomplish. It's easy to be caught up in the tiny mundane tasks we do each day and not pursue any real goals. Life without goals is boring. Imagine a soccer game without goals, it would be so boring. But the score would still be 0-0. Ha. Ha. But seriously, goals are the things that drive us! We wouldn't be laboring in our school classes if they didn't serve an ultimate purpose- to g...

     In 1979, President Jimmy Carter sai d, " For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years." Since then, a sea of statistics have rushed out citing the downward fall of youth groups in America, and the increasing crisis of their future. Graduation rates have plummeted, the national debt has sky-rocketed, and many other detrimental  statistics  have been released. The slew of negative studies makes one long for the days of childhood, where life was carefree and tasks were menial. The future has been painted as a destitute time of despair. But forget all of that, the future is still a blank canvas. It is unique in the fact that it is the only time where we do not know what will occur. The projections show life becoming worse and worse, but that's not the way it needs to be.      In these early years of our life, it's important to define who we are...

     Your morning probably starts with a loud beeping penetrating your left ear, or maybe the radio suddenly clicking on and blaring the latest song. Either way, you feel around on the clock to find where to turn that annoying noise off. Then you grudgingly pull off the covers, plop your feet down on the floor, and take a step. Then another, and another, and another. Throughout the day, you take your steps across your home and school, across the practice field for your team, across the store, and just about everywhere else. Then your day culminates as you pull on your pajamas and take one last step into bed.      Steps are the little ways of progression to get where we need to go. One step won't get you far, but a series of steps will lead you to wherever you need to go. At times you don't want to step anyway, it may seem to laborious of a task to get from point A to point B. At other times, the desire to get somewhere new puts a certain spring in your ste...