Christmas came early due to free overnight shipping

I splurged on Bose speakers and fell back in love with some of my favorite songs. These are a few songs which I listened to first:

Andrew Bird || Imitosis
Andrew Bird || Sic of elephants
Michael Jackson || Billie Jean
My Morning Jacket || One Big Holiday
Regina Spektor || Love Affair
Rilo Kiley || Silver Lining
2Pac || Changes

B R A I N W A S H E D .

Our generation has been raised to be afraid of each other. Always suspicious. Scared, even. Our elementary teachers lecturing about "STRANGER DANGER" and "DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS." And now I am handicapped; incapable of meeting new people. Everyday passing by or walking along with hundreds of students, without a word being said. I noticed this silence immediately freshman year, but paralyzed I made no attempt to change. I hate myself for that now.

I get why parents pull their kids out of those programs we participated in in elementary school now; because those programs PROGRAMED us to believe that crap.

What if we started to teach the next generation to always have trust in each other? Wouldn't it be a relief? How liberating it would be.