The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-09-13

cause glohtime takes away every
bit OF responsibility from you.
If anyone suggests that this is
not right you are supposed to be
very indignant and suggest that
you have rights and that your
opinions r not being respected.
It's hard to get out of globtime
too since you look ahead and see
so many others who have never
succeeded in getting out of it.
Indeed they have gotten married,
they are on their own, but you
have a very vivid realization that
most of them have never stopped
slishing and that they are still
very bored so you hate to think
of leaving globtime too.
So this is for those people
who r i'm their teen years
but who are not interested Ia
being in the glob. There are q
good number Of them too, the
only trouble is they are vic
fins of circumstances.
They read all about the process
of slishing in the newspapers and
mags of the day-they follow the
crowd which is always under the
sway of the glob and as a result,
they just sort of give up and say
what's the use. Everybody's that
way-you can't do anything about
it so why try.
The trouble is, you can do
something about it If you try.
Now this doesn't near you IAN
get out of your crowd-in fact
you don't want TO. That's part
of your life, you want to belong,
you want to be like the others,
you like to be in the know, you
don't want to be a square.
There's a lot of fun in being an
adolescent, in growing up during
the teen years. But it does mean
that you can get out from under
the influence of the glob, that
you can be with the crowd but
that you don't have to follow it.
1t means that you can avoid be-
ing a square, that you can have
fun, that you can laugh, that you
can live.
You can do all This If you
fry-because you are a child Of
Christ, you have a soul which
make you, you.
You are an individual posses
sing a spiritual, supernatural or
%ganization equipped to assist you
in being you. You will find out
that you are a square when you
are not yourselt-squares have
only one shape and if you are
round or rectangular and act like
it you can't be one. You will find
that it is not necessary to be like
everybody else when you 60 on
a date or are in company with
others if you are you.
You will find that there are a
lot of other people who like to
talk, and laugh, and be real if
somebody suggests such a thing.
You'll find that there are a lot of
other beings bored of being bored
if you just make the effort.
You think this will make you
different, make you out of the
crowd. It won'tv-it will simply
make you refreshing, like a cool
drink on a hot day.
1t will make you outstanding
like Debbie Reynolds recording
of "Tammy' when it is played in
the middle of one whole boring
hour of the Cadillacs, Ricky Mel
son, Elvis Presley and the like
who are so much the same that
they probably couldn't be dis
tinguished one from the other
without a record label.
And of course, you will find
out that there are a lot of other
refreshing people who are also
outstanding so there you are,
still in the crowd, still belonging.
But this is a different crowd
for it is a group of individuals
all aware of the fact that they are
people with souls, made to the
Image of Christ.
You will discover that Catech-
ism fact can become alive, that
it can hop off the page of the
Baltimore and put zest into liv-
ing. For it identifies you all of a
sudden with somebody you'd like
to know.
When you think about the fu-
ture in this light you don't get
so worried, in fact you get a real
thrill out of it. You all at once
begin to wonder about the real
possibilities in you-you wonder
just exactly who that real you is
and what you can do. You see
things and life animated by the
real Christ who, being your
Brother, has a tremendous inter-
est in you. You begin to wonder
if there might not be a lot of fun
that you've missed before.
You begin to look at people
and school and things in a differ
ent way as maybe things that are