Ground

There is irony in current social norms; every media outlet pushes rebellion as cool - fooling a majority of parents into turning their backs on teaching core values in a mistaken attempt to maintain relevance. This compels me to pose this question: If it's mainstream and one wants to rebel, how then is conformity rebellion? How is accepting the culture of the masses individual or unique? At some point when the lows become too low to maintain the want of the highs - regardless of what they are (drugs, illicit sex, and disrespect for values being the more obvious but not exclusive examples) - when will such synthetic counterfeit thrills finally be exposed? Empty. Soulless. Depressing. Lonely. If we don't live our individual lives to the full capacity and within our own intrinsic value - what else is there? Character is the most valuable attribute and currency we have. Without character, we are nothing more than meal worms living off of someone else's day old bread.

- Living Joy - This Carman Girl