to whom it may concern,

does anyone care about the future really? 

(originally written 1/22/24)

(honestly this is more of a blog topic, but i feel it fitting to share with anyone who sees or cares to read this)

  there has a been a vast drop in friendship and actual sense of community. along with this, i've come to notice the lack of empathy, real empathy at that. not the performative politeness and decentness people tend to have or act out for display of it and nothing more. although it may seem irrelevant, there's more tweens and teens out and about looking like full grown 20 and 30 year olds. all this is connected, at least in some way, right? the fall of caring. maybe there was a change in the time that was so grand it could make any of this possible. well, obviously. you know this change since you're on it right now. the internet has grown so much that with this fountain of growth and opportunity, we have pushed down actual living. we work for higher ups benefits and leave no time for living. the younger children of today have no time for actual learning, actual living. they don't have the same opportunities of being raised and living as actual children. instead they are left to devices and the semblance of a parent who either doesn't care, doesn't know how, or quite literally cannot be there due to work or any other circumstances.

to continue on this topic of the inability to truly live due to work, i'd like to say that for as much as people pride themselves on having some semblance of who they are and how nice and empathetic they are, they truly cannot be deemed empathetic. well, maybe they can. i'll admit that's something that could make a hole in this (supposed) "argument". i'll elaborate on this. today and on days prior, i asked a couple of people i knew if they would consider themselves feminists. or at least if they cared for the ideas and beliefs of feminism. this was without even mentioning trans women. they all answered no. they were all friends of mine or at least acquainted. one particular friend said something that really stood out to me. she said, "how could i care about the rights of some other bitch when i don't even like myself?" this is the fall of caring. she's the type of person who deems themselves not bad but not a nice person. which feels wrong. that is an entirely different topic for a different day. how can it be that someone who is aware and actively tries to be nicer than most people by being accepting and more, i suppose the best way to say it is, politically correct be so.. hateful? uncaring? unempathetic? i'm not sure what the word to describe this would be but it's probably something like one of those options. i do not believe the people of today can deem themselves caring for the future of themselves, their children, the people, and overall just the future of the world we live and all of its beauty, just everything in general if they do not have proper empathy. to care is to care for all, isn't it? 

either way, this is probably just some biased view from me and my moral grounds. sorry for the rant. please feel free to add to it or leave any genuine questions or criticisms. i might not be able to fully answer, but i'll surely try my best to do so.