If there is one thing I can't stand, it's being looked down on, especially by people who don't know me and have no business judging me (or any of my peers, for that matter). But when adults shake their heads and bemoan "our generation", the ones who will one day inherit the world, it brings out something ugly in me. What are they leaving us that's so great? What are they doing that's so much better than what we could do? Not much and nothing, that's what. They're handing down a pair of pants with holes in strategic locations scrawled with offensive sayings, and two sizes two small besides. If they don't worry about global warming, it doesn't matter, they will be out of the picture before the polar ice caps start melting, right? And if they keep gobbling up natural resources, it doesn't matter, because the oil isn't going to run out in their lifetime. And it doesn't matter that they are entering into wars and foreign affairs that could mess up our relations all over the world, because they aren't going to be around when things really reach a head. We are. And we better figure out how to handle it, because otherwise there will be less than nothing to hand down to the generation after ours. Except for a spaceship to Mars and a solar panel, maybe

By: The lovely and wonderful Rachel.