what we are living for...

So I have this friend, Low, who has a gift...a gift to communicate things I feel but never quite find the words to describe. He writes about his topics twice-first in melodies, then in words. 

One of things that has been consuming my mind lately is the idea of young adults of the 21st century and the new phenomena known as the Quarter Life Crisis. We've been told all our lives that we were special, unique, that our efforts were worthy of gold stars. Our parents, teachers, the world told us that we could be anything we wanted. 

Then after our college degrees are earned or trades are learned we're pushed into the money-making machine known as the job force. Little did we know that our gold stars would turn into worthless pieces of sparkling tin. The accolades we received as kids don't really amount to anything substantial  in the "real world." We were given such a broad scope of possibilities, many of us drowned in the ocean of uncertainties. 

"What do you want to do with your life?" "What do you want to be when you grow up?" "How are you going to support yourself on that dream of a profession?"

Twenty-five years of life has typically been a time when, in previous generations, you settle down into the family life, you've found the perfect job, and you conform to the American Dream. However, it has become more and more clear that young adults of the present culture are not running down the aisle anymore. Perhaps they've seen the pain and destruction of divorce in their own families and are perfectly content to just build relationships with the opposite sex but never commit to marriage. The job market seems pretty bleak and following your dream becomes a distant memory.

To return to the days when all you needed was a Capri Sun to suck back and the dream of becoming whatever you wanted when you grew up. 

I feel like my generation has been lost for sometime. No one stepped up to lead us through reality. We just felt like we could experience it through reality TV shows and that'd be enough. The line between fake and real life was blurred and we remain blinded by the uncertainty of it all.

Back to my friend and his gift of music. He's doing it...he's following HIS dream and in the mean time, learning what it means to understand what we are living for.

Check him out:

The Song Wade