Who Are We Now?

We have reached a time in our lives, where, being naked means we are in touch with our sexuality and covering up means we are prudes and archaic.

We are a people who find staying sober on a weekend as being an amateur and downing a keg of alcohol means you are having the best time of your life. Where #YOLO and #FOMO are the norm.

We have become a people who hide behind the screens of phones and computers. Communicating face to face is becoming obsolete. We do not know how to communicate without Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Snapchat and Viber. The screen has become the bane of our communication.

We are at a place where racial discrimination is still pertinent. Something that should have died along with the 20^th century, still managed to creep its way into 21th century.

Gun control still plaguing us. Poverty still killing our children. We are at a place where, we think that issues that do not involve women, drinking, and living life, are not what we should worry about. The state of mind of a child, who picks up a gun he found in his father, or mother’s drawer, or even bought from a pawn shop, and goes on a rampage at his school, killing his friends as well as his teachers, is not as important as worrying about the dress we want to wear to that party next Saturday.

We have gotten to a point in our existence where we are slow to address those problems that need immediate attention. Over 5000 people have died as a result of Ebola; in Africa, America and Europe but what do you see our leaders do? What do we see our own people do? Where are the medications? Where is the cure that is rumored to be in the West?

This is who we are now; a people who glaze over the issues we feel would embarrass us. We have failed the next generation, and the generation after that, but most importantly, we have failed ourselves.

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