“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
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Just as Atticus was accountable to the community of Maycomb and to himself, so must we as millennials be accountable to our communities and to ourselves. We do live in a growing technological world where we ought to keep up with the growing trends-without getting too sucked into it- and to still stay true to ourselves in between! At least from my time in High School, I can say that as a millennial, I wish there was a class that emphasized things not being given to us. One could say a badly graded paper was the motivator to work better and harder, but it was only through visual demonstrations in college that I saw the value of earning a job well done.
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” I do have that millennial spirit of having grown up in luxury and with being served on a silver plates, but just perhaps I am not repeating my parents’ struggle of working for their accomplishments. Perhaps not working for anything is their way of pushing me farther in life too.
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