Confessions of A Fatherless Child

Authority is suppose to be a word we use for certain people and something we are suppose to "respect" but to me it's something that allows certain people to command me to do something and if I choose not to do what they say I am punished. A person in authority is no different to me than any other except that there are bigger consequences if I do not follow what that person wants.

Honestly, it means nothing else to me.

For some reason there is this expectation that we should listen and obey the ones that someone says is in charge but yet no really follows through with completely. Have you done everything your boss has told you to do? Have you complained about what the current president has done or hasn't done? Have you ever gone over the speed limit? Even by half a mile?

We defy authority all the time. Our country was built on people that defied their authority and our nation's youth have grabbed a hold of that for every part of their lives. Why do people do their jobs then? Why do they still go to work and do what their boss tells them to do even when they don't want to? You ask anyone who has a job that they work because they need the money for something. Otherwise they wouldn't be there. No one would listen to their boss if they didn't have to worry about getting fired.

For most of the people I've seen, the reasons for following authority are lies and wishful thinking. The older people do it because they've been taught since they were young. Now, we do it so we can get what we want in the end. Otherwise we leave. And the people in authority give a bunch of reasons because if we didn't believe them then no one would do what they want.

Am I wrong about this? Perhaps. I know the bible disagrees. But this is what the fatherless generation has been left to. You slack on your job as a parent or in your position of authority and this is what you get. You screw up your job then the very people you were suppose to teach and guide will rebel against you and not listen to a word you say. People complain that the youth are out of control, but who taught them? Who left them to figure it out on their own? Because God is in my life I will probably get through this but there is a whole world of people out there that think like this and have no reason to believe otherwise.