Shining Thru

Isn’t it amazing how fast something new and exciting can turn into something old and redundant, leaving you without interest or motivation?  Take a new job for example; you are all excited, maybe nervous, wondering what the atmosphere and how the people will be.  You take your time getting ready because you want to make a good impression.  you go in ready to take on the world and make a difference with your presence.  I think most of us are quickly disillusioned and lost momentum.  Maybe you still really like your job, but the excitement and thrill of it being new is gone.  The question is, can you have the passion without the excitement and nervousness?  I wonder if our society has always been like this or if people use to find as much excitement in their line of work in the fifth year as the first day….

With my job there might be an exciting day from time to time, but it seems like the personal threill is gone…maybe not completely but I definitely have days werhe I don’t feel like going to work, which never happened when I first started…..I can’t help but wonder if people use to just find happiness in knowing that they did a good days work…or if they simply suffered through jobs day after day to provide for themselves and their families…..

What has happened to the classics in our society?  Movies, books, stories……the younger generation seems to have absolutely NO appreciation for the classics.  If the movie or book, or story does not relate directly to them or is from another generation, or is in black and white, or is even hard to understand with larger vocabulary or words that are not used often in today’s slang and texting world; kids today don’t want anything to do with it.  IF an idea is challenging and you have to look for a deeper meaning or appreciation for the craft of a creative work…the kids don’t want anythign to do with it….the “Give Me” generation is catching up with our society in most things.  Kids today what things directly handed to them, no working for it, no trying to figure it out…just handed to them.  Not only are we no longer teaching our children to earn what they get, or that hard work results in something, or that there can be great satisfaction in figuring things out for yourself and solving a great problem that you have been working on for days….great satisfication in figuring out the deeper meaning of the story, and working hard and earning what you get.  We are also not providing the younger generation with the chance to feel that satisfaction of really accomplishing something.  I also feel that we are doing them a great disservice by not exposing them to the classics and letting them continue on with the brainless things that have become the “cool” things.  These kids will not be ready for college, they do not have realistic goals….There are high schoolers that want to be doctors and lawyers but refuse to do their high school classwork and some never do any homework….these kids have got to be taught that not everything is handed to them in life…they are not entitled to anything.  These kids are going to have a hard time when they enter the world beyond their parents’ house…if they ever get to that point.