The Charlie Charlie challenge continues the trend of stupid challenges

So once again the world is buzzing to this new challenge called the Charlie Charlie challenge. My stance on this is very simple no spiritual quotes or scriptures. The world apparently has an obsession with jumping on to to idiotic concepts. This challenge is just the latest in a long line of challenges that are nothing but things for people with idle hands to do. For the past couple of weeks I've been doing a read one book a week challenge. I shared the challenge on several social media sites and not one person decided to join in. The young in our world find the idea of silly challenges more attractive than they do actual challenges that will add substance to their lives. Our young people are very impressionable so they will soak up any and everything that they see around them and that is very alarming for our world. The reason why it's even more alarming now is because the good is starting to become a rare commodity in our society. Chalłenges such as this one just highlights the general problems within society. The focus shouldn't be placed just on stopping people from partaking in such challenges but to find ways to make positivity more attractive to more people.

The world is captivated right now with various challenges so let us use this attention on challenges to start positive challenges. Our young people are in serious trouble because good examples aren't being set for them and instead of discouraging these practices some of us endorse it or just laugh it off. We can't claim to be wanting a better future for our world when we continually sit aside and not strive to bring more positive practices to the attention of our youth.

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