When we turn on the news what do we see? I see a world filled of hate, tragedy, and disruption that is barren of values, love, and understanding. Today’s world consists of turning on the TV and finding out that seventeen people were murdered and someone’s parent is about to be deported. We live in a world that focuses its attention on what is wrong, rather than what is right. People live in fear, as they do not know what tomorrow will bring because of instilled hatred of one another. I often wonder if there was a time in my life where I perceived the world for what it should be and not what it was––a world without trash, smog, violence, and hatred. (THESIS) Reasons why things are so messed up? (need 1,2,3) (egocentric, careless, and judgemental) …show more content…
A generation that is so caught up in themselves with the mentality that the world revolves around one person––themselves. John Donne writes, “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” In this egocentric generation, each person is an island all on their own with no need or want for outside assistance. What people do not understand is that our lives are linked together in more ways than one. We are linked in how we live, in how we go about our day, and in how we preserve the earth. In today’s society, we are willing to trade our souls for material goods. (NOT