From Eye Junkie
Friday, September 11, 2009
[excerpt] waking up on 9-11: is generation x disillusionment warranted?
"...When I read about the pervasive apathy or disillusionment associated with 'generation X,' I wonder. What do we have to be disillusioned about? We’ve lived our whole lives in the lap of freedom’s luxury. Entrenched in freedom, I can so easily default to laziness, restlessness, and ingratitude–to being asleep to the things that really matter, to the responsibilities inherent in this place of freedom. George Sefaris’ observation of 70 years ago is telling. Have I become lulled by my excess, my good fortune to have been born free and my privelege to have been granted freedom for all my life? Have I settled again into slumber, into contentedly closing my eyes to the world and the stories I encounter each day? Am I sleepwalking through this life of freedom?"
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3 comments:
I think the fact you are even thinking about it indicates you are not sleepwalking through this life of freedom...
I think we are SO spoiled now...everything at our fingertips...it can so easily become a sense of entitlement. I strive to recognize this and am so grateful for my life.
Wow. Just last night, I was reading something that resonates with your current post:
"...what have you in these houses? And what is it you guard with fastened doors?
"Have you peace...?
"Have you remembrances...?
"Have you beauty...?
"...or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master?
"...the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral."
From "The Prophet," by Kahlil Gibran.
@JENNYMAC - Thanks for stopping by! I try to keep a watch out for entitlement, too.
@BARRY - Thank you so much for taking the time to share that. I'm a fan of The Prophet. I first read it around 1993, I think. This really spoke to me.
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