The following is an excerpt from 14-year-old Brandy's MySpace blog.
July 1, 2006
Empathy
Current mood: frustrated
I think that empathy has been lost on our generation. Maybe it's just me...I'm only 14 so I guess I shouldn't know much. I do know that people walk around thinking that everybody is always happy and they're the one that's sad, angry, etc. I've seen this quote hundreds of times: "Friends are the ones that can see the biggest smile on your face, yet still know something's wrong." Well if that's true then about 90f my friends are wrong. I understand that the popular thing with teenagers are being all "I hate the world. The world hates me." Well that's okay, but sometimes you just have to laugh and have a good time. If you don't, then I think that you have some kind of mental problem. See a doctor. I think that almost all of todays teenagers have no room for any kind of empathetic feeling in their moody, hectic lives. I have been around people who I've broken down in front of and they just walk away and leave me be. That's not compassion. And those people were my friends. Nobody has compassion. Nobody can show feeling for fear of being hurt or because the person that is hurting is just not their "type" of person. Don't you think that if a person refuses to say anything but "ok" that it's a sign that someone or something has hurt this person or made him or her feel this way? If I were to find one of my friends hurt; physically, emotionally, whatever; I would want to help them. What's sad is that I feel (and have witnessed) that almost none of my friends would do this for me. We humans live for compassion. It is written in Darwin. In every known clinical research done, humans strive on that one hug from their mother or that one comforting word from a friend. From birth, we are constantly comforted. What happened to society?
11:00 PM
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