Everybody’s heard older generations complaining about kids not reading enough these days. Kids need to read more. Complain, complain, complain. I think these are a bunch of lies. I believe kids today read more than ever before. While it may not be the highest quality books that are being read, reading still takes place. Instead of books the internet has added a whole new demension of reading to the lives of youth. Whether it be social networking sites where people read about their friends, Magazines about celebrities, or advertisements everywhere you look. Reading happens. Its unavoidable. Now its not reading about the imaginary lives of fairy people and wizards like in the books of our parents, rather it is reading about the overly dramatic lives of real people . Its still reading. And yes, i realize what we do does not have the same benifits. But who needs a deep vocabulary. Languages are ever evolving so its only natural that we forget about some of these old terms as we gain and create our new ones. We gain and we lose it’s only the natural method of things as our generation shapes the new world.
So don’t tell me I’m not reading enough. I’m reading more than you ever did. Difference is im just not reading what you want me to read. For this reason, I demand old people to find a new cliche phrase, because what they keep saying is just not true; Its just- not- true.
(Disclaimer: For some people this may not apply…)
