Yes, They Are.

I have great hope for our generation.


Informally our generation has been called "The Do Nothing" generation.
I'm sure that is supposed to be applied with contempt, but I believe it fails in that regard.

We don't mind being labeled, because the labels others put on us are worthless. Label us however you want, we may not know yet what we are... but we know what we aren't. That label is fine because it gives us room. It's fine because it takes very little to prove it wrong.

But you know what? I believe our generation has no problem embracing it. Why?

Because it's true.

It's true, but it's incomplete. To be more fully accurate, it just needs two more words:


Without Purpose.

Without Reason.

Without Hope.

Without Inspiration.

Without Love.


Two words complete it, and although those two words are flexible, our resolve is not.

We will do nothing without purpose.
We will do nothing without reason.
We will do nothing without hope.
We will do nothing without inspiration.
We will do nothing without love.

The member (of whatever generation) who labeled us may have been willing to go along with the norms, and the standards, and may have been willing to take their life and the lives those they had influence with for granted. And it may frustrate them that this generation has not been so easily... cattled.

But that is not how our value is defined.

There may be those of us who have been stagnant, but it isn't from a lack of quality, it's from a lack of purpose.
Those of us who have failed to act, not from irresponsibility, but from fruitless reason.
Those of us who haven't made ourselves available, not from negligence, but from hopelessness.
Those of us who haven't created, not from lack of talent, but from lack of inspiration.

We refuse to take this life for granted.

Our value is defined when we act with purpose.
When we act with reason.
When we offer ourselves because of our hope in what we can bring.
When we create out of inspiration.

We define value... by measuring it in love.


I'm going to Africa. There are things there I am going to learn, and become. There are things there I'm going to bring, and offer. I'm excited to be a benefit to this world, and the people in it.

Shad "Do Nothing..." Turner