In an age where streaming across the television is teenagers driving Mercedes Benz and BMW's, it's pretty difficult to find sanity in it all. I mean, from birth we're pretty much taught and it's shoved down our throat that "success" is financial security. I have, and still very much do think that at times. It's as if I think that if I have a financial umbrella the showers of troubles will just disappear in my life. Worthless, that's what that is. That logic is absolutely worthless. I'm tired of this kind of mindset where if I don't have this watch or that car, or this house or that body. It's all materialism, and it's so unhealthy. I do want financial security, I do want to be able to provide for my family one day. But that doesn't mean that every single little Barbie Doll my daughter wants, or whatever girls want nowadays, or whatever video game my son wants he's going to get. I think that my generation has definitely lost the sense of how to earn something, myself included. Whatever happened to going out and earning something with your own blood sweat and tears? Society, television, the internet have all told us that it makes more sense to work for something through someone else, or push a button and "work" that way. I wish I could wake my generation up out of apathy and we...I would actually get myself up off my butt and do something about what this society, this economy is becoming. It's time to stop blaming the President or the government on the economic problems we are having a pull ourselves up above it and take charge.
This country is supposed to be a country of the people. Yes, I believe that a government is a good thing, but at the same time, I think that we lose sight of our own responsibility, we try to put blame on the government for where we are. We also forget to thank the government when they do help us out of debt and poverty and all that.
I guess I'm just another somebody on a soapbox, but I think that we've gotten so used to ourselves just sitting around pointing fingers that we need to finally take action. If we keep thinking that everything takes money, and we just don't have that little bit more than we'll always be discouraged and never want to venture out on our own. We'll never follow our dreams, we'll never amount to anything because we're too caught up on what we don't have, instead of focusing on what we do have.
I don't want you to go ask for a hand-out, so you can start some bogus company, and lose your motivation after 2 weeks of it. Really work that gray matter of yours and remember...think back if you have to...and remember that dream that you once had. Then talk to some people, people that are close to you, people that are going to encourage you and your dreams. You are capable of so much, and so many people want you to believe otherwise.
"Don't lose sight of your dreams."
That's really all that I have.
DK
