#29. Charissa Newkirk Article

I loved this article! I think it's such a brave and incredibly mature thing for a 16 year old to say. Everything she says in the article is absolutely true to our current societal ways. We think extremely short-term, and define happiness in very materialistic ways. Like her friend proves, today we live in a very "get rich - quick" society. We have lost sight of what is truly important, and become desensitized to the things in life that slowly suck the life from our souls. Facebook, social media, cell phones, the internet, all make it so much EASIER for us to communicate with the world...in the least emotional way possible. We are losing our ability to show compassion with other human beings. In reality, we are just becoming even lazier.