Jades Views

In this day and age in the UK are we abandoning religion and replacing it with our own worship of sex, drugs and rock n roll? It seems every corner turned you can be sure to see either the stray fifty year old alcoholic chuckling to himself at 10am, or a bunch of students finding a trolley and throwing it into bushes or the most common thing is the adverts, all assosciated with looks - sex sells apparently. When in the past hundred years did people give up on hope and faith and trade it all for the complete opposite. Every girl knows that young twenty something men are simply after bedroom naughtiness, and yet they fall in love, have sex, and end up heartbroken. Are we our own destruction? And if so, how do we correct this mess? I remember one person telling me that on an important document concerning households JEDI is considered a religion. Enough people wrote JedI on enough forms to actually make it a religion, even though it is obviously not real. So the majority of under 40 year olds seem to live their lives, when something goes wrong they go out get drunk and find someone new to sleep with. It seems to me that religion acts as the good conscience of us all, if you don’t believe in it at all then surely you go down a very slippery slope, and it seems that everyone no longer respects each other, unless you are a male player. It seems that wars are caused and about religion, e.g terrorist attacks and then making out we’re in a holy war but the truth is we’ve all lost our faith in the west, so that declaration simply doesn’t work. Is religion a fad that is simply passing us by, and the new religon, sex drugs and rock n roll, is it really the path humans should take, eleven year olds having babies, free abortions without the guy ever knowing, and the majority of the UK being on anti depressants because they have lost their hope? I think I might go to a Church Sunday, I still have hope that there’s more to life than this, and if not I’m going to live it right with the least amount of heart ache as possible, I still have some sort of faith, in something spiritual, and in mankind one day getting things right and peaceful in the future.

Jade Danielle Morgan

As a young twenty something I can’t help but notice the amount of pressure and anxiety that is plunged on top of our shoulders day in and day out. University has been and gone, leaving with a successful degree and amount of work experience, and yet it seems that it is all about who you know, not what you know in the working industry. Soon enough you’re working full time in McDonalds juust to get by, and don’t have the time for any free work, and that’s when it kicks in. Anxiety, Panic Attacks. We are made to believe that these are the best years of our lives, yet why are so many of us suffering with these panic attacks. The harder you work, the more you realise your dream isn’t coming true and so you have another panic attack. The longer this goes on for, the more you suffer. Why are we promised things as children only to be deeply disappointed in the future? None of us are really prepared for working environments, and all of us are anxious, anxious for their dream job, or atleast to satisfy what they studied for, anxious to find that one dream partner, and anxious to live on their own independently, will the anxiety cease if you get these three thing. Maybe the key is simply to not be alone, no matter what hardships you face you always have a friend who will listen, someone there to lean on, just a friend, or more. Maybe we’re all focusing so hard to be independent we’re denying ourselves the need to have one other person to talk to.