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‘Rap’ Fans: Did You Forget that You Packed Your Own Lunch?

Disaffected youth continue to pack their own lunch in the form of horrible rap music, with lyrics that crush aspirations

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Have you heard the old joke about the construction worker who arrives at the job site everyday, and has the same lunch? He complains to his fellow workers that he’s tired of eating the same old stuff.

I Did it Myself

The workers look at him and invariably one of them says, “Can’t you ask your wife to pack something else?” He looks back at them, kind of puzzled, and says, “What do you mean? I pack my own lunch.”

So it is with much of today’s youth, particularly minority youth, some of whom drive around town blasting their hip-hop and rap music, replete with lyrics about ‘ho’s’ and derogatory labels about themselves.

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They’re completely immersed in negativity: negative lyrics, negative thoughts, and negative actions. They wonder why they can’t get a job, why people look upon them with disdain, and why they feel as if they’re outcasts.

They feel as if society at large doesn’t want them and that they’ll never become part of the economic mainstream. They feel as if they’re experiencing discrimination, and that the deck is stacked against them.

What they don’t realize is they’re ‘packing their own lunch,’ every morning, with subversive and debilitating thoughts. They’re dwelling in the gutter, perhaps being angry to all, and perpetuating low self-esteem, as if somebody is making them listen to this drivel.

The Blame Game

They’re becoming so much less than what they could be, blaming the ‘man’ or the ‘system’ or whatever. Meanwhile they are steeped evermore so in their own victimhood. Eventually, some are inextricably enmeshed in life-long patterns of self-destruction.

They are blocking their ability to discern possibilities. They are not taking advantage of countless opportunities in a country where abundance reigns supreme: Where laws are stacked in their favor in respect to getting a good education and a good job, and unmistakenly becoming a part of the economic mainstream.

How long will this mass self-charade continue? How long will disaffected youth continue to pack their own lunch in the form of horrible rap music, with lyrics that degrade everyone and anyone?

A Path with No Promise

How many more months, years, or decades will they succumb to ‘music’ that actually depletes one’s energies, lulls one into a false stupor, and sends the message that there’s no use in even trying?

Ten years from now, in 2031, will anything be different for people steeped in this negativity? What about in 2041? Or, 2051? Sadly, nothing is likely to change unless, one by one, such participants recognize that the path they’re on vanquishes each and every individual and convinces them that there is no way out.

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Jeff Davidson is the world's only holder of the title "The Work-Life Balance Expert®" as awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is the premier thought leader on work-life balance, integration, and harmony. Jeff speaks to organizations that seek to enhance their overall productivity by improving the effectiveness of their people. He is the author of Breathing Space, Simpler Living, Dial it Down, and Everyday Project Management. Visit www.BreathingSpace.com for more information on Jeff's keynote speeches and seminars, including: Managing the Pace with Grace® * Achieving Work-Life Balance™ * Managing Information and Communication Overload®



 
 
 

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Student Drinking and Drug Abuse on Campus is Over the Top

What kind of society, de facto, condones such reckless behavior?

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The senseless loss of five university students in a house fire has stung my community. These were top students, accomplished individuals, and potential leaders.

Someone has got to ask the tough questions right now, while the pain of their loss is intense. In what kind of society do presumably the best and brightest engage in highly questionable activities? An all-night party? Started at what hour? Preceded by what? To end when?

How much alcohol flows? How many drugs are dispensed? Obtained from and by whom? Ingested by whom? How many cigarettes are lit? How many butts wantonly burn down to nothing? What else is lit and smoked?

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Foolish Behavior Condoned

The largest and toughest question of all behind these is what kind of society, de facto, condones such foolish and, in too many tragic instances, reckless behavior? Drunk students falling out of windows to their death, engaged in chugging contests until they vomit, on weeknights no less, walking the campus in a state of high lethargy? Being rushed to emergency wards?

Sure, install the proper sprinkler and alarm systems, but acknowledge the ruthless reality that confronts us. Colleges today are the stomping grounds for legions of students who drink and take drugs with abandon. They sit like zombies in morning classes if they can make it out of bed at all. Professors pretend that it is not happening. University administrators accept such behavior as ‘part of the times.’

Such phenomena are more wide sweeping than anyone cares to admit. They are testament to the abandonment of standards, the ‘everything is allowed’ overly permissive culture in which no student is safe.

Break the Silence

If the students who died were among the finest people that communities engender, what does their loss portend for others? And when will responsible adults break the silence about the utter absurdity with which too many students live their lives?

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