This came from a chain email (so many good nuggets do)

SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up - what with walking 25 miles to school every morning… Uphill… barefoot… BOTH ways.

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids. But now that I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

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From my mom:)

This year in the Dallas Independant School District, one of the students was chosen to give the keynote address for opening ceremony for Charles Rice Elementary School. He does so in front of over 20,000 people on the subject “Do YOU belive in me?”

http://www.dallasisd.org/keynote.htm

And I don’t think he used one of those little public speaking tricks, either.

My hometown newspaper is interested in what the younger generation is up to. And apparently, they’re up to all sorts of good things! One travels for justice, another does anything to avoid the 40 hour work week. Sounds like an inspiration! Are you doing good things, too? Email your stories or check out the others.

Standard Times.com