the angst-ridden life


have been reading the blogs of my students recently. the wonders [and the dangers] of blogging:) i just do a search and everything is in front of me.


the amount of angst they splatter on their blogs is simply AMAZING. i cannot help but cringe and roll my eyes at the self pity some of them display. nothing against them but i cannot help but need to make an opinion about it.


many of them write about the same things - daily stuff that happen in school, problems they face everyday and endless b****ing about people. im sorry that i just had to use that word. it is a little tiring to plough through everything but i do..wanting to see what is life like for each of them, through their eyes.


i see complaints, whiny entries, childish anger/hatred and self pity. life sounds sooo miserable for each of them. i take everything with a tablespoonful of salt but still these things bother me. i know that most times, things are definitely not as bad as they put it but the language they use and the things they want to do...


perhaps the question now is "why is this so?" not just regarding my students but most teenagers in general. why is there the necessity to fill that webpage with endless swearing, trashy words and the "i hate________"? and the best thing..they want others to read what they write! after all the sometimes nasty things that are plastered right in the face of the reader. i still cannot reconcile that. much as you have the 'right' to write watever you want and however young you are, blogging is not that.


the things which 'disturbs' me the most. the fact that many of them talk about being a child of God too. thats nice and good. but if within the same sentence you spew your angst out and yet somehow include the name of God.. what are you trying to say? what kind of a testimony are you trying to represent of yourself and of the One you proclaim to believe in? [im sorry if i sound judgemental and angsty here] i have to admit that i am indignant, angry even.


it is possible to be fuming and yet not lose your head. you could be angry but still civil with the things you write. there is a way to tell others that you disagree strongly without having to insert vulgar words into your arguement. go figure a way out. ranting and raving is definitely not the way to do it.


*o well..had to get this out of my system. and all of you who read this is the accidental audience:)