If each one of us...speaks

If each one of us could tell our story, speak our voice - what would we do with it? In a day of online blogs (like this one), my space, and facebook: each of us have an opportunity to speak. Never has our individual voice had more potential power than now. We can mask our pages and/or websites with a quote or song to express our we feel, place countless pics of friends/family for public view, and digitally connect ourselves with people we've never met or care for. So why now that we each possess an individual voice which has more power to voice meaningful messages, why now do we choose not to? When our parents came to countless protests, political rallies, lived through horrific situations and when our foreign neighbors till this very moment daily die and suffer for once their voice to be heard- What do we find in their efforts and trials - what do we find to speak? In an age of global communication- can we really say that we are choosing to speak with purpose or gladly choosing to still be blind with no voice? So many others try to speak on the behalf of those who can't: like Gary Haugen of International Justice Mission to speak for the unjust, the three college boys from Invisible Children for the children in Uganda, Queen Rania of Jordan for the women of the Middle East. Why is it that these people choose to truly speak when countless teens choose not to speak- or when countless students for thousands of universites choose not to speak.... are we not educated enough to voice a valued argument for the unjust, for the weak, for the voiceless. Can we just speak? Yes we can but will we, the "educated", speak? My prayer is that my generation will CHOOSE to speak.