The Outside World

When the sun is shining and the weather is as perfect as a cool popsicle on a summer day, that is when our minds hurt the most. Our minds ache in the misery that instead of going outside to explore the natural world, we are stuck in classrooms, offices, bedrooms, our eyes glued to a glowing screen. We ask it for the answers, and we are expected to give it answers, our minds working on overdrive to complete this utterly difficult task in front of us. How can we be expected to be so smart while also so naive? We know how to find the missing side of the triangle, but what about how to find a missing person that was so stressed they will never be themselves again. The powerhouse of the cell cannot help you determine which plants are poisonous when you are out in the woods. We are not prepared for the natural world, we could not survive in the world outside our doors. So we stay inside, glued to our screens, trying to figure out what “explain this in your own words' ' means. What happens when the older generation is gone, when we are left on our own, trying to figure out what global warming means to us and how we are supposed to have hope when there are only 8 years to stop it. Why can’t we stop it? Why are we left in these rooms to learn about a world that will just be gone? The world outside is disappearing, while we sit back and watch it die. If the world dies do I stay alive? We are all common sense deprived. How can I live while I am wondering if I’ll survive?