and here we go

for my peers or my generation or whatever you call it, the "wired" generation, the "plugged in" generation, with everything whizzing and whirring about it, it is not a question of no opportunity but too much. the world is here, there and everywhere, it is not just what we can touch with our own fingertips or reach with our feet or even by automotive; it's what we can glean from an always-changing screen; it is a process of deciding where we want to go today, and sifting through an infinite numbers of outlets to get there, and absorbing what we can in a world that never stops but with a body that still needs sleep and a brain that still uses just 10 percent. how does it all fit? it can't. we are a society where traditional values have been swept under the rug, where community and selflessness has been tossed out in favor of be all YOU can be (but not, heavens no, in the Army), do everything you can and be on top, top, top of the ever-growing mountain, no matter which way it pulls you. ironically, when values and sense of self have been overcome by immediacy and struggle, they have never been more important. they are the hand that pulls us out of the quicksand.