Toxic content and environments are slowly changing our way of thinking! The need to educate ourselves is no longer parts of society's need to succeed in life. A lack of this need is the active ingredient of failure and mischief. Before the internet and modern technology we would gain our knowledge through reading and was left with thoughts and questions about our new found information. Our minds would get caught up in the narration of whatever material we were diving into. That's rarely the case anymore. As each new year begins the natural drive for knowledge and thinking that we as people once had to better ourselves is depleting rapidly. 50 years from now our world faces so much detriment as a result of our inability to think beyond what is just given to us. Critical thinking is now exchanged with just a minuscule narrow way of thinking due to short cuts we call new age technology.
             Independence and curiosity are behaviors learned upon us as infants throughout toddler stage. As infants and toddlers we possess the need to learn, to think, to go above and beyond because we crave that curiosity. What an amazing future the masses of tomorrow would have if years from now if this drive, this need for the unknown could still be present throughout all our stages of life. As infants and toddlers we are explorers by nature. Failure or defeat isn't reason or means to hold us back from achieving our goals. The maturing brain is constantly thinking of new ideas, seeking information. The need to educate ourselves, the need to gain more and more knowledge about anything and everything to broaden our understanding of our environments is nothing short of enormous.
             As adolescents entering into adulthood we tend to lose a sense of self. We start to "follow the crowd" and get lost trying to identify who we are. We develop feelings of confusion, failure and a weak sense of self. Our ability to think and want more for our f...