So my birthday is in a few days, and I’ll be 44 years old. I don’t feel much different than I did when I was 21. I’m wiser and have a lot more responsibility, but I’m still myself. I’ve learned a lot of things about life, how to deal with certain things, how to treat women, etc. Things I wasn’t necessarily taught when I was growing up for the most part. I feel like I have a decent grasp on how to behave when moving through the world.
There’s a programming that takes place for young men as they are growing up. From the music they listen to, the movies they watch. Your parents are forced to go to work because they are wage slaves and the TV and media program the children, and mostly for the worse. From viewing women as bitches and hoes, to having a me first mentality, the programming from mass media is all wrong. For most parents, especially single ones, it can be hard to teach your child wisdom when you’re working 40+ hours a week and tired all the time. You don’t have the energy to really go hard in the paint when it comes to training the child.
That’s why I feel like we need to go back to the way it was in the 50s, 60s and some of the 70s, where we understood it takes a village to raise a child. We have to get a reign on the kids where an adult can tell them what’s right and what’s wrong. Back in the day, if you were caught messing up as a young person, a neighborhood person could reprimand you. You’d get in trouble with that person, then they would tell your mom or dad and you’d be in trouble with them!
To be honest though, the things we see going on with the kids today is Biblical. The Bible talks about child turning against parent and parent turning against child in the “last days”. I definitely feel like we are approaching Revelations, and that a lot of things are coming to pass. Time will tell how it all unfolds, but I’m interested to see the part everyone plays in it. Hopefully one day, we can have a time of enlightenment, and go back to an age where we raised children properly. We all want peace and some good company, and hopefully one day, everyone will be able to achieve that in their own way. L8r!