Opportunity

As I sit here on the charter bus thundering towards Washington D.C. I think I will document my first positive generational difference.  Opportunity.  Due to technology and communication there are avenues and experiences open to my generation that my father could never have even dreamed about.  For example, in Washington D.C. today I will visit with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, former attorney general Edwin Meese, two different senators, and then finish up with a dinner at the Russian Embassy commemorating the 50^th anniversary of the Russian Cosmonaut.  That is awesome!  The opportunity to meet all those people and have dinner at the Russian embassy is something my father could only have dreamed of when he was in college.  Not to mention, there are study abroad programs available for us as well.  I will be hopefully be attending Oxford University in the following spring pending my current application.  There may have been study abroad programs back in the 1970’s, but I highly doubt that they were as prominent as the ones that exist today.  It is these opportunities that will hopefully jumpstart the future leaders of our generation and save what I have already deemed a failing hopeless generation.  That is, assuming my generation takes advantage of these opportunities.  (you didn’t really think I was going to be 100% positive about my generation now did ya haha?)

Importance

As I sit here and watch ESPN I am shocked at what has become important in the country today.  As the NFL is in labor talks over their collective bargaining agreement, but the ridiculous thing is that the federal government is feeling the need to intervene with it.  This reminds me of when the government felt the need to help baseball with steroids.  In my mind there are so many more important things for the government to be focusing on than professional sports, especially when the economy is in the shape that is in.  As big a sports fan as I am I think it is a farce that the government is helping with these sports as the situations within the sports are not only laughable but it has to extremely humiliating that the sports cannot figure there problems out themselves.  It really shows that the focus of the future of this nation is on entertainment and not anything of any importance.  As funny as it can be it is actually really sad, and needs to be changed before something drastic does happen.