Our hunger for televised images from presidents to plane crashes means plugging into the fragmented reality defining our modern world. This dallying in details goes beyond television. Our reality is laced with hype. I've been conditioned to think responsibility means keeping informed. But this cycle of fractured recession updates, unemployment stats and crime rates leaves me feeling paralyzed.
Action seems inappropriate, even if the concern is genuine.
I've been taught in this glorious information age the power in personal choice results from awareness. To remove apathy, apply belief to action. Like other twenty-somethings, researching the job market, rehashing my resume and reinforcing my outlook on life brings me constantly to the edge of possibility. This period of transition tires me, and succumbing to apathy, like one long glorious nap, seems attractive. I'll admit I slack between my various stages of future-readiness.