Keeping it real!

I have lived my entire life as a person who always tries to do the right thing, tries to be a good Husband, son, Brother and friend to all. Hopefully i have succeeded more than failed in this dept. ,but the one thing that i can truly say is that I am the extreme realist, always have been always will be and have at times been deemed"negative". that in itself usually gets me going and I point towards the world today, the topics that drive us and keep our attention. Things like Michael Jacksons death and the fact that we still sensationalize this pedophiles life and death as real news, it's not, Jobs and mortgage payments are real life trajedies but we as americans live in that social unrealistic bubble and want to stay there! Move the hell on with it, the we have the damn Reality shows which are anything but heavily scripted bullshit, American Idol, survivor, americas got talent is just a dose of the dumbing down of our American culture as a whole. Oh shit,Paula Abdul doesn't want to come back because she won't make 20 million to sit there in here drugged out state and make slurred ridiculous comments, Fuck! like this bitch had any talent back in the day and has even less now, woo hoo she could dance a little, so could michael and look where his dunmbass ended up..... Worm fucking Food! she is on that overdose path as well...I hope. But aside from the ridiculous programming on the tube which I can't watch anything but Documentaries , the food channel ,or sports anymore, I am really saddened for the youth off our present and their futures. what do they have to draw upon for real guidance, all they know is cell phone, myspace ,facebook and the inability to be able to construct a real sentence because they text their way thru life. Then they expect the world to be handed to them lacking any real work ethic or true understanding of the word "work" I guess watching Cribs, or the" real world" or Kardashians doesn't show that in its' episodes so they won't learn reality there, or from their parents whom they rarely speak to anyway nor listen do when they do. We as Parents need to step it up and make sure that we let our kids fall and preach to them the trial of their paths of inactivity and unrealistic views, and for goddamn sake, quit trying to be your kids' best friends and say NO on occasion , it Will serve you better and them better in the end. but we owe them 18 years of our best so that the following 60-70 of their lives they can blame us for anyway. So as i look out to the world, i see a huge cartoon and burlesque show of ridiculous unabashed lack of awareness and understanding for what is real and what it worthy of our time and efforts! Sometimes i try to establish a rationale that times are different and times are harder for kids, but as i see it the choices are more the lack of imagination is higher and technology has made our young lazy and inept at acting on their own and making rational decisions based cause and affect and taking ownership of their lives and becoming accountable for their own successes! But if, "ifs and buts were candy and nuts ,we'd all own our own candy store. Time for us to stop the dream ,and start making it a reality, a reality which requires a sense of grounding that most of us do not have the potential to adhere to. Every problem has a solution, every problem is a lesson waiting to be learned. Some problems may be a tasks we don't want to deal with , differentiating this is the magic key!!!! Keeping it all real takes some of the managable variables out of the equation! Good Luck and Good Mental health