Explain Why Life Is Not Gumdrops And Lollipops

Life is sad, everything about life is sad, I used to think life was all gumdrops and love, but life is not gumdrops and lollipops. Life is difficult, there’s stress and death and starvation, and during history classes they show us what’s happening in the world, and just the mass murders that occurs, and we, students, learn about all the imperfections and bad choices that America and other countries make. The thought that the world I’m going to inherit someday is this bad, is something I sometimes want to laugh at, because the thought that the grown-ups, politicians, company owners, world leaders, have made the world so terrible to live in, given us so much to be ashamed of, yet all us teenagers care about is if someone hates us, if our crush

likes us or not, if we look cute to impress others, it just makes no sense. How arrogant can we be? We have a world that needs our help and we just walk right through it, without a care in the world.
I suppose I am no exception to this thought, I have so much time on my hands and barely ever use it for anything important, I mainly stay out of the world. All I do is complain, because all I can think is, “what could I do?” I’m one person, I’m an african-american, female, I’m not quote on quote heterosexual, so my voice matters little to none, and I’m only a teenager. One day I’ll inherit this earth from my parents, and maybe become a parent and an advocate in Pennsylvania I still have no say in what happens in the world. The future is mine and I’m not cared about. I’m not a bad person, or at least I’d like to think so, why don’t I get a say?