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On Future Societies: Challenge, Conflict, and Change

    “Will Palestine now be considered a country?” Click of a button. “Who is the true killer of Ninoy Aquino?” Click of a button. “Greenday lead singer was kicked out of a flight trip by an attendant due to inappropriate attire. He tweets…” Click of a button. “Luke, I am your father.” Crunch of the popcorn. Another crunch. And another.

    Children are scattered all over the world, breathing and sleeping. Some are hoping while some are weeping. Some are cozy under the sheets while some are shivering under the cold thin air. Everywhere are people fighting, shouting, and believing for justice, equality, and morality. However, most of the youth are indifferent, and I am no better.

    Who will live on to take the place of the ones in power? Who will live on to bring the progress each of us desires? Who will live on to end the suffering caused by the sovereign destroyer called humanity? No one else, but the children scattered all over the world, breathing and sleeping. No one else, but the hoping and the weeping, the cozy and the shivering. No one else but the indifferent.

    Rise. Wake up. See.These are the cries of the souls breathing their last. Stand. Feel. Move. These are the cries of the souls breathing their first. We live not in a world that has stumbled and has slowly destroyed itself but in a world that is getting back up and is carefully healing itself.

    “The End.” Crunch of the popcorn. Another crunch. And another. The bowl’s empty and the movie’s over.  Click of a button. The television screen goes black.