That is the problem with the
young and educated of today. They talk a lot and they claim to know a lot but
really they know nothing at all.
We can talk all day about the
bright futures we have ahead of us, the futures generously donated to us by our
parents, who have loved us and provided for us since we were babies.
Yet inside
we are the same feeble, irrational creatures as we were in the womb.
We think
we can get away with anything by choking up a little tear in the eye, by
refusing to pick up our toys and toils after we’re done with them, by saving
money for an Irish cream coffee instead of putting it aside to pay back for the
debt of our selfishness.
We are babies, wrapped in the disguise of immaculate
men and women.
We are babies, with translucent skin and a hunger for the
primitive needs, of leisure and pleasure and enough vodka to fill an aquarium.
We are more childish than we were at thirteen, for we were straddling
between innocence and pubescence then, and now we’re adult-like goblins with
damaged minds.
That is the problem with the young and educated of today. We are
lost in a sea of desires and we drown with every hand that pulls us into the
abyss.
We are the cause of our own misery but we continue with our childish
ways.
We abuse the fact that we have a supposed bright future ahead of us, and
everyday we beat it down by turning our backs to the non-fictional, frightening
reality that is our world.
In our world, we are nothing but school kids and over
privileged rascals, but in our minds we are dukes and duchesses of the future.
It
is the future that will never come, for we are doomed to be babies.
Even
when we’re too old to bite pears we will be babies still, cared for and looked
after by hospital personnel, just like we were looked after on the cots where
we first laid our heads.
That is the problem with the young and educated of
today. We claim to know everything when in fact our lives would discombobulate
if we stopped being babies.
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