I'm a teen, and most of you who read my blog are pretty young. And being young has a good and bad side, the good is that we have the energy, spirit and passion to do anything. Anything we put our mind to, we can accomplish. The bad, we always mess it up because we're not committed,we give up too easily, we don't stick and finish the task. Because of that our most of parents, teachers and elders have very low expectations of us. They have given up expecting great things from us. Can we change that? Do you want to? I know I do, I want to make them proud of us. I don't want to be called 'just another teenager with nothing better to do than hang out at malls'. I'm sure i'm supposed to do great things NOW, not when i'm an old stuffy grandma.
The Rebelution encourages this, us youth to stand up and do something about our predictable teen culture. I'm not going to talk about the Rebelution today, but rather an article they posted up. It's a story of two girls who raised 2,500 by served a spaghetti fundraising dinner. All the proceeds went to World Vision who then will fund wells for villages so they have clean water.
How inspiring is that?!? Oh did i mention that the two girls were only 17?! I feel so ashamed that I am going shopping spending my money on useless things when there are people who don't even have clean water. And I know, I have seen people living without clean water in Thailand.
I hope today you will think twice about where you put your money. And if you are a teen, show low expectations you can do so much better.
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good entry. encouraging =)
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