In My Own Little Corner...

There is something very...disconcerting to me about adults who do not take care of their business. Something...annoying, yet alarming about people who dismiss their responsibilities and run from their problems.

I dont get it.

As a single mother/college student/software developer, I tend to have a different set of responsibilites of most people my age, yet and still, almost everyone has some sort of responsibilty, and throughout it all...I am still surrounded by those suffering from what I like to call:

"THE SLACKER SYNDROME"

• People who know finals are coming up, but wait til the last minute to bum the review off someone else


• People who claim they are seeking independence yet refuse to save money because they live in the mall
• People who constantly get STD's, refuse to use condoms, and then use their bodies as lethal weapons
• People who sit home and watch TV all day yet complain about being broke and uneducated
• People who know they only have enough gas to get to work but drive around downtown club hoppin and then depend on others for monetary assistance
• Peoplewho register and attend classses just long enough to receive refund checks

Sorry. That just got personal. But I dont understand. What train of thought does a person have to truly have to be so...SLACKERISH, for lack of a better term of course? And to make matters worse, I see this the most in MY people.

BLACK PEOPLE.

And no, its not because I'm only surrounded by black people, but its the truth. Its almost like, some people consider running from a problem the same thing as dealing with it. Or relying on someone else to handle it, is the same thing as solving it. *sigh* Its just saddening. Because there is no way I could no I have things to take care of, yet, choose to concern myself with other, unimportant, trivial matters.

And it seems to me, that these slackers make up a multitude of people suffering from another ailment I have noticed lately:

"The Complainer Curse"

(I'm sorry. This is getting more personal that I initially intended, but I'm just frustrated. People like this are endowed with toxicity and for the life of me, I dont understand how my people went from being the hands, feet, blood, and backs of this country to the ones now sitting, waiting, and wandering around...for a handout. I just want me people to...WAKE UP!!!!!!!)

Although the issues I stated are miniscule amongst the larger scheme of things, they are the formulation of a horrid habit!!!!

What is to become of my generation if not enough of us have the drive and initiative to actually do enough with our lives to contribute to society? Have we not yet grasped the concept that has been engrained into our heads since elementary days...WE ARE THE FUTURE! Yet if the present is indicative of the days to come, the future is undoubtedly grim. How long are some of us going to sit around and watch while everyone else does all the work? While everyone else becomes intelligent, independent, and steadfast in their ventures...what is to become of the multitude of those of us who do not?

Swine Flu is not the pandemic dear friends: SLACKERS ARE.