The Problem Solvers...are you with me?

I wrote this last night for my English teacher. She has us write at least 400 words in a journal entry form every week. So I chose to write about this:

"We were driving through town the other day, and I saw a guy standing in the Home Depot parking lot. Not too weird right? Well, maybe not, but I figured I could make something out of it. He was standing by his car, but something was sticking out of the truck. It was a big box that wasn’t going to fit in his car unless he moved something around. Instead of getting straight to work, he just stood there looking at this problem. I started thinking, and that is what most of us do more than half of the time. We see that there is a problem with our grades, the way our job is working out, the way our relationships are working out, etc. but what do we do? Nothing. We sit there and look at the issue, but we don’t get off of our butts and do what needs to be done. How would the world be different today, if when everyone saw a problem, they tried to fix it as best they could? Would America be in this great dilemma in the way of finances? Would we even have the presidential candidates running that are running now? Would everything be so much better if when there was a problem we fixed it instead of just looking at it, and knowing that there was a problem? The answer is blatantly obvious, but do we do that? No. Especially in teenagers in America. We see a pen fall on the ground and just look at it. That may not be a big deal now, but that trains our minds that it is okay to see a problem, and wait for someone else to fix it. Truth is, that’s not how it works. I’m as guilty of this as any of you are, but we can stop that now. If we start to see a simple problem, and fix it, and that will carry on to all of the bigger problems, which will inspire generations to do the same after us. They will read in their history books that this generation didn’t let problems just sit around, they fixed them, and it didn’t only make the city, state, country better, it made the world better. That is the kind of generation that I would like to be a part of. When I am gone, I want people to remember me, and this generation for what we can be, The Problem Solvers. Are you with me?"