Hashtag Society

Let me apologize in advance if this post becomes unorganized...I'm trying to put my thoughts on paper so ill type as the words come...

spring and romance have become relatively synonymous with one another, you think flowers and birds and couples holding hands walking through the park and all that crap, yet every song on the radio is about falling in love, out of love, in lust...heartache, happiness, drugs, money, sex and murder...welcome to 2012...

I'm going to speak about generation y, the echo boomers, my generation...the 1981-1989 kids... Our parents were the last generation to not be raised by tv but by family instead, they were the last to see the marriage rate stay higher than the divorce rate, so what fucked them up? Crack... And when crack started fucking up the youth of generation x, we came along...we're the last set of kids to know what its like to play outside til the street lights came on... We watched shows that were actually appropriate for children, but we fucked up to...how? Well think about it, we grew up watching the Disney classics, Aladdin, Lion King, Mulan, Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid...all mostly love stories, but all stories of kids growing up too fast... Ariel n Jasmine were freakin married at like 16.. Little shit like that went unnoticed but we wonder why we're so obssesed with being in relationships, Think about the shows we used to watch... helga had a shrine for arnold in her closet, they were 10yrs old n she had a SHRINE... We're conditioned to look for the rich and handsome prince charming or the beautiful princess...  Then there was happily ever after...n what did it consist of? A handsome king and a beautiful queen who are now rich n powerful...

We were taught to believe we can't be happy without money and a partner, n if we can't have both than it's ok to settle for less as long as we're together...

So what happens to generation y after years of being brain washed by the Titanic and the Notebook... We're the generation of single parent households, we have more black men in jail than in college, public hs graduation rates under 50% nationwide, we have babies b4 diplomas, the divorce rate is higher than the marriage rate...n our little brothers and sisters are on 16 and pregnant and Teen Mom...our younger siblings are growing up on facebook and twitter arguing about Amber Cole and Kim Kardashian... This is the example that we set... We complain about the 90s babies but we're more responsible for them being a hot mess than anyone else... We made Jordan so hot they changed the release dates to Saturdays cause we cut school to stand in line...now kids are stabbing each other over kicks we had back in 8th grade... We put our time and energy towards how we look so such and such will notice us instead of taking our time to establish good credit and buying a house... We have day cares in high schools, 30 partners by age 25, condom and vibrator commercials at 2pm...

Im not judging anybody, live ur life how u want to, just understand ur not acting on ur own volition...we're acting the way we've been taught to act...but we reprimand the 90s babies? They're just doing what we did...but 10x bigger...