screwed up kids
"What turns good kids bad?" I asked my class this question today. They came up with a variety of answers. Almost all of them listed friends as one of their reasons. Some said stress from school caused it.
Last week I was online chatting with my younger brother. He told told me to check out a myspace homepage. It was a homepage for a guy we grew up with in Redding, California. The guy had really transformed. We all went to the same church and our parents were friends. I remember how I thought this guy was really cool. Everyone seemed to like him.
He has a picture on his page with him flipping off the camera. He writes these crappy, dark poems that have to do with hating the way he grew up. He hates Redding, his parents, the lies that the pastor told him, etc. His younger brothers have followed his lead. I saw one of his brothers’ home pages. He seems even more bitter than the older brother.
It kind of made me wonder how they got screwed up and why, if they hate everything they grew up with, they still live in the same damn little town they grew up in!
It’s a mystery, and that’s why I don’t think I want to raise any kids. I think, after I get married, we’ll probably adopt a twenty five year old with a good job.
