Simons says DO so you better DO

   This morning, I woke up to the internet buzzing about some Kylie Jenner challenge as it relates to the size of her lips. I mean hundred of thousands of young people world wide just taking time to put their lips in bottles and make them swell in order to make fun of a celebrity. This recent development took me back to my blog about the obsession with celebrities. How often do young people come together to spread positivity compared to the times that they come together to take up some silly challenge after another or just poke fun at people. It's truly amazing how influential celebrities can be but most of the times we tend to forget that they are humans just like you and I. They do make mistakes, they do suffer heartbreak and they do have flaws. Our young people are so easily influenced and instead of spreading more positive messages for them to adapt those of us with the power,simply add fuel to the fire with our obsessions with looks, hyper-sexualization, inappropriate dressing and our carefree attitudes.

The world needs more positivity because quite frankly either our young people are being killed off by guns or they are dying from lack of attention. Celebrities say and young people do, with that in mind I'm urging influential figures to please be more careful of the things they say and do. Parents are often left to shoulder all the blame when their child falls off the right path but people tend to forget about the high pedestal that young people place some of these celebrities on. They base their dressing on them, they talk like them, they even form their sexual habits based on them. For some young people there is nothing they wouldn't do to become more like the celebrities they look up to.

On another note it's really nice to see the amount of attention Marcus Garvey is receiving in my country, Jamaica these past days. It's really nice to know that the names of heroes actually do come up  at times other than heroes day. Many young people are very vocal on Mr.Garvey all of a sudden yet they are still clueless about the majority of things that he achieved. Our heroes are with us everyday as they are on the money that we fight over and stress over but many of us as young people don't know anything about them and aren't even interested in learning.

If one spends a day in the social media world you will realize just how empty our Jamaican young people are. They are either caught up with entertainers who are feeding them empty messages or they are reading about the latest gossips in other parts of the world. Rarely do you find young people who know about the culture of the country and I don't mean those who cram to pass an exam and have no recollection of it after I mean those who are genuinely interested in learning about the true beauty of the country and want to help maintain it.  I sometimes wonder if we will have to import young people from other countries to speak about the culture of our very own island.  I will see young people have heated debates over couples breaking up or whose body is fake yet they have little or no information to give on the affairs of the country.

The truth be told though the more seasoned members of society need to shoulder some of the blame. Our media houses have the perfect outlet to share more of our culture in more interesting ways that will appeal to young people. For some, the brainwash has already began to show on them but for others we can start fresh. Our local celebrities can begin by promoting more positive messages, they can think twice about the way they dress and the lifestyles they live because that's the message they are sending to young people. Believe it or not the world is filled with attractive women and we don't need to be reminded of it twenty four seven. Isn't there anything else that you can promote? How can you promote messages that sex appeal isn't important or you should focus on more than your body when as a celebrity you post more images of your bottom and breast than you do of anything else. Come on!! to say it is one thing but to do it is another and as I said before whatever they see you doing they do.