We live in age where being jaded in the standard norm, boredom is the dominate state of mind, and being vain becomes as normal as brushing your teeth in the morning.

So, according to a few recent studies, college students are vain, and high school students are bored enough to drop out all together. The studies aren’t what are surprising, but it is surprising that no one noticed this before. There is no doubt everyone suffers from small amount of attention deficit disorder. While being exposed to everything at once we run the risk being over stimulated or bored to death. It really isn’t our fault either. Living in an era where everything is accessible by point-click technology through cell-phones, laptops, television and anything Internet related we expect everything to be new, fresh, flashy, and interesting. Anything that doesn’t hold your attention for more than a few minutes… well… that goes without saying. Because the educational system isn’t set up to be flashy and entertaining teens just tune out. And since a majority of the education taught is to be used later in life, it really doesn’t apply to other people. You could have one person who’s really in art but absolutely hates math. Or a science whiz that cringes whenever you make him read Shakespeare. The education landscape is even for no one, unless you’re one of those super well-rounded people, who must have been chemically engineered at birth.

Besides being under and overly stimulated, we are a self-obsessed society. Now, probably more than ever, its almost become a qualification for living: If you don’t push yourself out center stage before everyone else, you never will.” Everyone has had at least one friend who whenever they open their mouth you get monologues with every sentence beginning with the words ‘Me’ or ‘I’. It is as if the moon suddenly broke orbit from the Earth and started rotating happily around their head. It may be a good trait to have, being over-confident and such, which I’m sure gets its own rewards in the long run. But really, these are the kind of people that whenever I hear them spouting off at the lip as if they have some kind of divine birthright all I fantasize of doing is throwing them into the nearest wall, or sticking a giant glob of paste on their mouth so they’ll just shut up.
—Eming Piansay