I don't care

you know, I've been hearing that a lot recently.

Heard it said by my younger brother when I reprimanded him for bad behavior.

Heard it said(well saw it written on an MSN page) by an 11-year-old girl who had a potty mouth.


Heard it uttered by another junior of mine, when she was in a pinch.




You know, I think i heard it all from the younger generation.

"I don't care if i fail my exams."

"I don't care if you're scolding me."

"I don't care if you don't like me."

"I don't care if i don't go to school."

"I don't care if you don't let me do this."

"I don't care if I'm like this."

"I don't care."

"I don't care."

"I don't care."

I can't help but feel amused and slightly apprehensive about that.




Let's take a look at this issue from an 'eye for an eye, tooth for tooth' ideal.

If you don't care, then i don't care whether or not you are being fed, being taken care of properly, that you're living in the same environment, whether or not you're living and breathing, whether or not you're happy or sad, .

You wouldn't mean a single dime to me.

Because simply put. If you don't care, then what gives you jurisdiction to think that we must care for you?


Why would your parents care?

Why would your teachers care?

Why would anyone care?


'I don't care', isn't something that should be said lightly.

Thank heavens Mahatma Ghandi came up with 'an eye for an eye makes the world go blind'.

Cause really, if there was no care, then no one would live.








If the politicians didn't care, we'd be in deep sh@$.


If the environmentalists didn't care, we'd have no planet to live in.


If the teachers didn't care, no one gets taught.


If the society didn't care, we are going to have a spiking crime rate.


If everyone didn't care, we wouldn't even be in the 21st century(after all, i don't care if i live in a cave).







Something uttered by someone so young, more so since the future generation that will succeed us and supposedly bring about a new legacy. They don't give a damn whether they've done something wrong be it in the eyes of law and the eyes of the public and the eyes of their family.

They just don't care.

Frankly, that disgusts me. This don't care-ish attitude. Makes me want to go to that child with a bar of soap and wash out their mouths.





Know why?

People murder because they don't care.

People steal because they don't care.

People cheat because they don't care.

People become monsters when they don't care.


It makes me see, that these people are already beaten before they even started, that they won't bring change, that they are going to be the contributors to the downfall of society. It's the people that are thinking of this kind of logic now that is beginning to destroy our world. All we're doing is increasing the rot by letting our children think that way.








Parents really should drive the point home that you can't say 'I don't care'.

Pull the wool out of their ears and the cotton in front of their eyes. Pound it into them that yes, they should care.

Because really, don't you think its disheartening?
Hearing them say they don't care that our world is falling into pieces.
After all, you care don't you?








Be glad that I still care whether or not you're going to grow up right.


Someone has to care.

'Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.'~Dr Seuss~