Unmotivated Youth

I felt a rant coming on last night. There is a girl that I've only recently met. She is in my Tae Kwon Do class. She is much more advanced than I am. She is extremely unmotivated. Quite frankly, I sometimes wonder why she is there. She obviously doesn't want to be. In fact, she spends quite a bit of time complaining about Tae Kwon Do. She talks about how boring it is. She wonders why she is there. She talks about this and that, and always with an air of disdain for the entire process. Last night, she completed her slide into that special place I have for certain people. I now hold her in total contempt. *sigh* When she saw me reading a book, she proudly pronounced that she had not read any book in years, except for the Twilight series. While I don't have a problem with her reading that series (many of my friends have, and I guess I'm going to have to break down and join the pack), the fact that she would be proud of the fact that she has not willingly read anything in years is just sad. (By the way, this is not what completed her slide, but I'm going to leave that out of this post.) She seems completely unmotivated to accomplish anything.

The problem is, she's young. She's a senior in high school, and I know how this age can act. Seniors are, after all, the top dogs in a very small kennel. They have not experienced the real world yet. They don't understand that their disdain for the mundane is affected. They don't have life experience from which to draw wisdom and knowledge. They can't understand the effect they are having on other young people when they say things.

Some day, she will grow up. Maybe she'll become a decent human being. In the meantime, I'll just avoid talking to her in the hopes that she won't fall even lower in my esteem.