Distractions

This article is very important, especially to students our age. We being expected to finish all our assigned work, study for SATs/ACTs (or any other test you can think of), do community service, sports and art, look at colleges, and on top of all that have time to relax. I think that at this point we have just become so overwhelmed with the amount of stuff we have to do all these distractions are what keep us going. Like in the article it says that “we’re waiting for our next ‘hit’,” this is very true, we are searching for a break that is not cause directly by ourselves.
However, I also believe that in some ways that this might be beneficial to our generation. If we are always looking for a distraction then that means that the latest news is often read (just so that you don’t have to begin writing your English blog) and students are more up to date with everything that is going on in the world and not only what is happening in their tiny little bubble. Though it is true that many people don’t read the news and facebook is probably the first choice of distractions the fact that due to all the work that has to be done and the distractions we find (or create) people nowadays don’t have down time is a problem. Saumya brought up a pertinent point in her blog(http://saumya22.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/quiet-room/), “as young adults we are still discovering who we are.” The amount of time we are just being has shrunk. Our time to figure out what we are or who we want to be has been reduced because of our never ending distractions.