http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhxthxhwk0
In our world, you're supposed to care. You're supposed to care about the environment, human rights, and your community. If you don't recycle or give to charity, you're a Bad Person, capital letters and underlined.
But on the flipside, you can't care too much. It's weird if you go out and collect trash, or go to political rallies, or join PETA. I'm not saying that PETA goes about protesting in the most effective, "sane" way, buy hey, at least its members care about something. It's better than going about life as a vapid blank slate, drifting in and out of what's popular. I think people don't want to care because it means having that much more to lose.
I mean, it's even weird if you like your favorite band too much. Do one too many school projects about it, and you're "that weird obsessed kid" for the rest of your high school career. That's why it takes so much courage to show what you care about, to stand up and say, "I really love _____ and I'm proud!" What if people think it's stupid? They might judge you. They might laugh. But if you care about that one thing enough, it won't matter.
Agreed. But maybe MOST people don't care about something as much? Or maybe their scared that soon enough they won't like that certain thing as much as they did before and people will then judge them for changing their mind.
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