YOLO - A Lesson On Current Culture
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Sorry for missing my post last week. I spent the day at the K with my kids enjoying a mediocre baseball team play an even less glorius game. As a hilight, I was able to witness one of the parachuters get taken by the wind and land in the first row of seats. (He walked away and was fine, so it's okay to enjoy it.) Anyway, on to the post.
Introducing the newest acronym you will find annoying, you will love to hate... YOLO. Surely you have heard it or seen it behind some hashtag. That's right as if "TGIF", "LOL", "IDK", or "I'm just sayin'" aren't enough....... we have YOLO.
So as a public service announcement, I will explain. The rapper Drake has a song with the following lyrics: "You only live once, that's the motto (expletive) YOLO". It means You Only Live Once. It is the new Carpe Diem of sorts for some of the older readers.
What I have observed is that the phrase has given some sort of credence to risky behavior or as an excuse to play mean pranks. For example a quick search of twitter renders the following:
- "switching seats while the car is going 100+ #yolo"
- "risking my chance of going to jail for 60 days #yolo"
- "driving around in a police car and arresting people #yolo"
YOLO is reality. We only live once. We have to make the most of it. Jesus said that the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy... but He came to give us life, life to the full - abundant life!
You Only Live Once - it should not be an excuse to live reclessly, but should be motivation to live life in the power of the resurrection.
Introducing the newest acronym you will find annoying, you will love to hate... YOLO. Surely you have heard it or seen it behind some hashtag. That's right as if "TGIF", "LOL", "IDK", or "I'm just sayin'" aren't enough....... we have YOLO.
So as a public service announcement, I will explain. The rapper Drake has a song with the following lyrics: "You only live once, that's the motto (expletive) YOLO". It means You Only Live Once. It is the new Carpe Diem of sorts for some of the older readers.
What I have observed is that the phrase has given some sort of credence to risky behavior or as an excuse to play mean pranks. For example a quick search of twitter renders the following:
- "switching seats while the car is going 100+ #yolo"
- "risking my chance of going to jail for 60 days #yolo"
- "driving around in a police car and arresting people #yolo"
YOLO is reality. We only live once. We have to make the most of it. Jesus said that the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy... but He came to give us life, life to the full - abundant life!
You Only Live Once - it should not be an excuse to live reclessly, but should be motivation to live life in the power of the resurrection.
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