What of tomoro?

I took a day off cos i had a specialist appointment...and after running other errands, i was walking back to my car...

I dont know, obviously time has changed, right? Girls as young as 8 y/o are menstruating these days, but when i was a girl...it was more like 12-13 y/o. Boys are growing faster too, the growth spurts for them starts earlier too...but what i want to know is whether or not their minds are developing earlier?

I see kids loitering around after school...they seem like the youngens in year 7 or 8...i wonder what they are thinking of, whether they see anything in their future, whether they aspire to anything? While i was in year 7...i was thinking about having fun as much as any kid, but i also did think about my future...i did consider what i would like to be when i grew up, after high school...whether i wanted to be a mother or a career woman. What type of career would be fun and interesting? What career would i really want to do and would be able to do?

I look at these kids and i worry for their future. To me, they look like they have given up. I know that education isnt free. My English teacher, Mr Paul Gilchrist, would always tell us, "i wish u guys were born 10 years earlier, there is too much talent here that might go to waste because there is a high price associated with education these days. i wish u guys were born when i was born, because tertiary education was free then."

I wonder if these kids think to themselves that they cant make it? Do they ever think: "i would like to be a when i grow up...but it will cost me an arm and a leg and my nose to pay for my way OR i'd rather work, i would never be able to get the marks to get into uni!" As a kid, i wanted to be a fashion designer, an interior designer, a real estate mogul, an artist, an architect, an accountant, a lawyer, a secret agent, a doctor - specifically a psychiatrist, a writer, a stoke broker, an architect again, a lawyer again, and then a neurologist - altho mum wanted me to become a gynecologist or an obstetrician. I always thought i had a chance, even though i knew it would cost money...i never thought i couldnt get into uni if i tried hard enough or that i would never find a way to my "dream career".

As a kid, i just thought that i had to work hard and that i will get there. Maybe it was my upbringing...my mother was always telling me to appreciate my education...not to do it for her, but for myself...cos in the end i would have to look after myself...the better the career, the more money, the more secure id be...if id lose my job, because of my education, i would have a better chance in finding another...what she drummed in, was more about the fact that i would have to be independent...so it didnt matter what i did, so long as i was happy with the job and i was able to look after myself then everything would be good for the future.

And her back-up plan was of course...since im a girl...i could always be a mother if i really sucked in the work force! *LoL* She seems so liberated at times and then she whips out something from the 1950's...hahaha...

So, these kids in the streets...still in their uniform...do they care about what will actually happen when they finish school? Are they just going to bum around for as long as they can? It doesnt look like they even want to try to do anything productive...I MAY BE WRONG! I dont deny that, but thats what i think when i look at them...its disheartening, because i think the least they could do for themselves is try...but there is this unwillingness or they are just busy having fun...loitering???

I dont know...but when i see kids like this and i look at my niece, i worry even further...and my sister in law is about to give birth to baby #2...which scares me even more...is it a downhill spiral for the kids of today who are our future leaders of tomoro? what will tomoro be like if they dont care whether or not there is a tomoro?