Reality Checks.

Generation Z By: Zarina Angell

Have you taken a reality check lately?

Well, in case you haven't noticed, it is uncool to...

Think.

So you don't.

You don't and you don't until you can't.

Why be illiterate when you can be literate?

Why be unsuccessful in life when you can be successful?

Enough with the interrogative tones!

Enough with the disarticulation!

Enough with the like, totally, whatever's!

Stop contradicting yourself every time you speak!

What is wrong with our generation?

Don't you want people to know what you believe in?

Haven't you ever been personally invested in your own opinions?

I have.

And its worth a try.

Generation Z is the group of people born from the late 1990's to the 2000's. This is what age group I belong to, and being part of it, I have noticed a really big problem arising. No one fights to be successful in school anymore. In fact, if you are, you are typecasted as a nerd. We do not fight for the best possible outcome for ourselves, we satisfy for second to last, or last. We think we are to cool for school, and this is what my poem is about. We have stopped fighting for our right to an education, and when we are so lucky to be having one, it should not be abused, we should be making the most of it. It is worth fighting for an education, because it will take you farther in life than fighting for your beauty or anything else. I want my poem to encourage our generation to fight for their education, so that we can keep this world going and live up to all we can be.