Let's Have a Drink: My Internet Therapy

Dystopia

After reading authors like Suzanne Collins and Ray Bradbury, have you ever wondered if our modern society is as (nearly) flawless as we pretend it is? The answer is: no, it is far from perfect, but I'm sure that you already knew that, but are you aware of just how far human culture has strayed?

Whenever you read a dystopian novel or watch a movie like The Hunger Games, there is one obvious thing to us, the readers, outside of the fourth wall, in our cozy little couches. That thing is that there is something missing. Oh, but we have nothing to worry about in our super advanced economy. Wait, but we really do.

If you have ever driven anywhere in your entire life, you see homeless people on the street, with there Sharpied cardboard posters asking, pleading, begging to be not ignored by society, to be a part of it. But you know what your parents always tell you, "look away, son, it doesn't do any good to stare at them." We're like those horses you see at fancy country clubs with the masks over their eyes, always looking forward, programmed to dismiss the world. What if you did do something, though, gave that poor woman freezing to death a few dollars, handed your Panda Express takeout to that anorexic looking old man. True heroism is not the huge projects for the community, but the little things. No, I'm not telling you to hand out your life savings in chunks to the poor, but if you saved someone, another human being, just like you, from fear, to light their darkened souls for just one second, one flicker of fire in their heart could become a blaze, and that blaze might just catch in others, until a wildfire of hope appears in the world just because you decided to act.

Hey guys, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who led me to becoming the person I am today, who are aiding me to morph into who I'll be tomorrow. My challenge of the week is to help out someone in need.