Society

Recently, I have found something wrong with society. There have always been inner problems in society, but a blatant problem has been tearing at my mind recently. This problem is the prominence and acceptance of immorality. With teenagers especially, conversation almost always contains some sexual reference or some type of drugs. Marijuana was most fortunately not legalized, although that doesn't hinder a good portion of the population. Abortion is still found to be overly necessary unwanted mothers. There is even a show called "Sixteen and Pregnant." Even within my church, many of the people I have heard of or know outside of church are involved in sexual activity or drugs or some other immoral activity. I like to think I am a fairly religious person, but I seem to be a nun compared to the rest of the population. I don't understand how especially people so young can involve themselves in such...horrifying activities. It amazes me what people can do now. Most people can't say a few phrases in a conversation without a "That's what she said," or some inside laughter over some perverted reference. I suppose it is my own, not even what I consider high morality that prevents me from understanding this..even majority it seems..of society. It honestly intimidates me and causes me to worry excessively.. I can't even do anything to prevent my fellow friends/classmates/peers/society/PEOPLE..from acting absurdly. I'm afraid I won't have any friends left, as I don't want to associate myself with such people. However, I am willing to live alone rather than become involved in this new, frightening society.

Sardines

Okay, so everyone knows about the childhood game of hide and seek. Sardines is like an opposite version: one person hides and everyone else must split up to find them. Once you find the hiding person, you have to hide with them, hence the name "sardines," as everyone can end up pretty squished. Anyway, this continues until the last person finds the group, who now becomes the new hiding person. Last night a group of my friends and I all played this game and had a blast. However, once we got into it, no one trusted anyone else. People would begin to mislead others then sneak back to the spot where they actually found the hider. Everyone had to check everywhere for themselves, even if someone else just said that the hider wasn't there. This all made me think about possibly a higher connection to society. While we were all just having fun, what if something really did happen in the world? People may become frightened and just fend for themselves, letting everyone else suffer. I suppose it's like Darwin's theory of natural selection. It just made me wonder how all order could fall as chaos prevails in a selfish society such as ours may seem.