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It's interesting to me that the world continues to produce the same news over and over again. At first it seems that we are so completely removed from these happenings around the globe. News events to a child's eyes is like a distant story being told, unless of course, the event is happening directly to you and you are actively involved or a part of the story. Then we grow up and slowly start to feel like we are a part of some connected society. We get all wrapped around the axle of these still distant stories. Some can't get enough of their celebrity updates. Some dig their heels into domestic policy. Others take a global look at the environment. Some view the world through their religion's filter. We become adults, strong in character, able to effect change, we raise our voices in the name of our opinion. We take sides...miles from the front lines. We wage war on straw men in office buildings, in Internet news responses, we rein supreme in our ideals. Still the world puts out the same and we remain ineffective. Change comes slow, where the idealistic beliefs of the last generation slowly fade away and are replaced with pragmatic response to survival with the overtones of the high and mighty hopes and dreams for future generations. Only now in this global community we might hope to align those dreams, we might hope to come to our understanding of each other. Would we spend a lifetime in a futile attempt to drive the world to see our point of view? Would this be a life worth living? Would our effort be justified or rewarded? It's that slow change we must support. So odd that the rubber meets the road in social change only in ideas, in attitude, in thought over a very long period of time. So how do we teach the next generation? How should they view the world, the same old news of the day? What opinions need to be extinguished? What new ones need to be adopted? Then the action comes naturally and without resistance. Certainly I was raised to be polite to everyone, to not litter, to exercise...just ideas about living better in the world, ideas that didn't always exist but now are considered the norm in modern society...or almost. Sidebar: I'm really shocked at the fact that I still witness people littering, it's such a basic idea to put trash in a trash can. How hard is that? I'm not even talking about recycling, but simply getting that non-biodegradable Cheese-it wrapper into a proper receptacle. I've seen people drop these things right in plain sight over and again where I live. If we teach the children anything, let's keep teaching them to not do that. Anyway, I'm wondering how long it will be until we don't get so worked up over the news, when we learn to react with patience, wisdom and appropriate action instead of momentary passionate spouting of opinion. When will stop churning up more of the same things. I'm curious about our new ideas, our new directions and lessons.