Death of cynicism...
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I recognized that I’ve been very cynical lately – even more than normal and I’m starting to question the validity of cynicism. See I was one who looked at our youth as the lost generation…. I covered their sporting activities, personal events, listen to their music and shook my head, watch the young men walk down the street showing their fruit o’ looms, and just shook my head as I went in the other direction. Allowed this sample of generation Y to become the standard – the norm and didn’t look at the bigger picture.
| I found myself
to quickly become the cynic, the critic; the guy
who can only see what’s wrong and points it out
to everybody. And everybody loves that guy. I
just thought for a long time, “I’m just one of
the perceptive ones. I’m just one of the smart
ones, standing at the back of the room throwing
stones at everything.” It just seems to me now
that I was afraid. I think I was scared. It is
so easy to be the cynic. It is so easy to find
and point out what’s wrong with things. I mean,
anybody can do that. Cynicism is often the first step out of naiveté… |
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Yeah, and my motto is simply “life is a bitch, and then you die.”
That being said, I just sat through a wonderful ceremony at Urban Preparatory Academy (www.urbanprep.org). Urban Prep Academies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates a network of all-boys public schools including the country’s first charter high school for boys. Urban Prep’s mission is to provide a high-quality and comprehensive college-preparatory educational experience to young men that results in our graduates succeeding in college.
Well, they just celebrated a 100% success percentage of ALL of their seniors – 211young men, to be accepted and enrolled into a four-year college or university. This ceremony was like nothing I’ve ever seen… once you are college bound, you participate in a tie-exchange ritual, in which a student exchanges their red uniform ties for red-and-gold ones. This week, the last three (3) students exchanged their ties just like how you see student on national signing day.
I’m working hard to become freed of my cynicism. Sitting through this ceremony has opened my eyes to the fact that kids are able to rise above anything if they are shown how to fly. It’s time for me to roll up my sleeves and become an air traffic controller and inform this generation of the turbulences ahead, or they will be off-course FOREVER!
It’s time to give back to this generation or it would be lost forever!
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