Fear Fear is to be afraid or frightened of. Everybody that has breath is afraid of something. My friend is afraid of spiders, my mother is afraid of failing, a little boy that I babysit is afraid of thunder, and my brother is afraid of being alone. Being a sixteen-year-old senior in high school, I think about my future a lot. What I want to accomplish in life, if and where I will go to college, what I am going to do for work, and where I am going to live. But one thing that I never really had to think about was having a family of my own. Growing old with a man I love and having children has always been part of my dream. In fact, it seems as if that is the center of my dream, and everything else will have to just fit around that somehow. My parents always tell me that they know what it's like to be a teenager, that even though we were born in a different generation, some things never change. Yet in minor contradiction of themselves, they have also said that this world is a wicked and cruel world, much worse than it was when they were younger. My dad, being the normal, protective, not wanting to let go type of father would rather me live at home for the rest of life and stay single forever and bare no children, he says I could always adopt.I still can't wait to find the man that I will spend the rest of my life with, but as for bringing children into this world, there in lies my fear. Seeing the planet change so rapidly year by year has been interesting as well as wholesomely breath taking. As I go through the struggles and tribulations growing up in the world today, it's hard to imagine what it will be like for my children to grow up in the next generation. Today we are able to access pornography online no matter who you are where you live or how old you are, kids not only buy drugs online as well but sell and trade drugs on school grounds, condoms are given to you in high school by the teachers, while watching television we see commercials for phone sex. You can be driving in your car, stop at a stoplight, glance over at the car next to you and see that although the driver appears to be no older than seventeen, there's a cigarette planted in his/her mouth. There are parents who are afraid to let their ten, eleven, and twelve year olds walk down the street by themselves in fear that they could disappear forever. Thinking of how the world was thirty years ago, and how much it has changed to this day, I can't even imagine how it will be ten years from now. The thought of having my own children, a little part of me, and a little part of the man I love together and creating a life fills my heart with joy. But thinking how they will grow up and what the world around them will be like terrifies me. I only hope and pray that instead of this world getting worse, it will get better. We shouldn't have to fear such things. Article provided by View more articles | Information provided by collegeanduniversity.net |
