Coffee versus Tea

If you haven't already noticed, I love my cup of Joe. I have encountered various well meaning people who have attempted to make my a tea lover. Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate an occasional cup of chai tea. But my true love is, and will always be, a nice cup of coffee in the nearest small town cafe. Coffee forever!

After a few sorry attempts at writing an especially profound thought, I have come up short.

So, I have decided to show you a video I created about a year ago.

I hope you are impacted by it.

 

The pictures where taken by me, acquaintances, and friends.  They are depicting people from Costa Rica, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Panama, and Brazil.

Oh how I love coffee! (cold,hot,milky,strong, ex.)

I am started to come to the conclusion that every blog I write will begin with a random phrase. I can't help it! My randomness is essential in the preparation of beginning a profound thought.

This week has been full of new knowledge. Or should I say, old knowledge revisited. I have a bad habit of gaining wisdom only to drop it a mile down the road. If we made it a point to retain even a small percentage of the wisdom we acquire, imagine who we could be. If we didn't have to relearn every lesson life presents us time and time again...Who could we become?

Can humanity rise above its own immaturity?  Is it possible for us to end our childish tantrums and become adults? As I look around I can not help but come to a pessimistic realization. Even our government full of supposedly mature adults have had  their own tantrums. The reality is, we live in a world of selfish people.
And I am the worst...

Oh how easy it is to point fingers. We blame our government, yet we don't even vote. We blame our entertainment, yet we bankroll their corruption every time we turn the television on. We blame our bosses, yet we do nothing to encourage change.Complainers (haters) are useless and the world would and will go on without their so-called valuable input.

"Being wise isn't promoting everything wrong with the world, it is facilitating the change necessary to bring about positive change."

The wisest people in history were only written into history because they did somthing with the wisdom they had recieved. Instead of dropping it by the wayside they carried it like a banner and ran to the masses. Being an adult is moving beyond our personal comfort and realizing the great need America has for grownups. If we looked outside our windows we would realize the wisdom we take for granted is hidden from a generation that truly needs it. Where are the fathers, where are the mothers to teach the children of this era?
They are too busy being children.

To any father or mother reading this, please don't reject the lessons life presents you. Teach them to your children.Maybe my generation wouldn't have to learn wisdom from terrible experiences.

jenny (a twenty-something girl)