My parents didn’t just hand me money to do things and sometimes, I wish they would have. Now, I feel confused, when I have kids, do I want them to learn to work for what they have and get out there at 14 to work and make money so I don’t give them everything…or do I give them what I didn’t have? Since I knew how it felt and how much I hated missing out on things because my parents wouldn’t help me, why would I do that to my own child? There is nothing wrong with hard work and there is nothing wrong with sometimes saying you want to take the easy pass.
July 7th Response
I defiantly have to say I agree with you when it comes to a “hard work free pass,” so to speak. My parents always raised my brother and sisters and I that you can’t get anything without hard work, and it is rewarding to work hard for what you want. From the age of 14 I was always working trying to save for a car, work to pay for a car, work to pay a cell phone bill. I was proud that I had worked so hard and got what I wanted. I would tell my friends how irresponsible they were for not doing things on there own and acted as if I was better than them. Really, I was screaming inside jealous that their parents gave them whatever they wanted and they didn’t have to work. I missed so many events, parties, and social events that I could have been out being a kid and having fun but instead I had to work to pay my bills.
I never thought I would find myself being like my parents, “back in my day,” but I am finding myself with no other words except those. I shake my head when I see the up and new coming generation, same as I am sure those before me did.
I also found the picture of “I deserve what I get when it is something I want,” to be amusing. Now a days people think that something is always “owed” to them or that they can simply get whatever they want without working for it. That drives me nuts. Although it doesn’t completely relate to it, but this reminds me of youngsters these days. Every child, yes child, about 8 and up has every electronic and gadget that is out there on the market. How ridiculous! These kids get whatever toys they want that cost hundreds of dollars and they are learning absolutely nothing except they can get what they want. I didn’t get a cell phone until I had a job and was old enough to pay for it. I got my own computer when I graduated high school; I got the newest electronics on my birthday or for Christmas, if that. I believe these youngsters are growing up believing they can get what they want because they want it. These kids are not learning responsibility or the value of nearly anything if they are being treated in this manner.
In high school we treated each other so horrible, and don’t realize, high school is barely a fraction of what is to come in our lives and you don’t benefit at all from terrorizing one another. Of course, we know that now we didn’t realize that back then. Therefore, I was not surprised by the answers given by the students that they think they are better than such and such and that it was not surprising that some thought they deserved something or acted in certain ways.
July 7th Post
I was most interested this week to read the survey given to the high school students. It is funny, being out of high school now a couple of years I can’t help but look back and think, how ridiculous. When you are in high school, you think you are better than this person, this person is a nerd, that person is a loser, that person is the most popular…so on and so fourth. Guess what? Where is that nerd or the most popular now? In high school we spend so much time judging each other and making up our own little clicks, and, none of it, absolutely none of it means anything at all. In my experience after leaving high school, that “nerd,” is now on his way to a masters degree in engineering and doing wonderful respectable things in his life and guess what, miss I am most popular and better than you ended up getting knocked up by mister popular at 18 right out of high school and they split up and now she is a single mother trying to work and go to school.
If you don’t belong in this country, you don’t belong. I am sure that there is a long ridiculous process to go through to come to this country; however, there is a process for a reason. I am sure people come to this country illegally trying to make a better life for their family and everything else. However, I know many people that scam the system. I know people that pay people off thousands of dollars to have them marry someone to make them a citizen. These two people will act like they love each other, live together, etc., for 5 years I believe it is, just so that person can have their family come here from another country. What the heck is that. The only worse thing is that our government isn’t even smart enough to realize people do that. I agree with everything you said, the law is a law for a reason, it is to protect us and keep us safe.
I have to say I agree with you and I don’t feel the least bit guilty of saying it. It is ridiculous the amount of illegal immigrants in this country and I feel nothing is being done about. More recently in California, the new immigration laws put into place were hammered and butchered. Too bad. I believe that California’s proposed laws actually might have done some good in this country. I never followed through until the end result but I believe that checking people and their status is fair.
. My dad wanted to take a trip to the Holy Lands, the travel agent informed him that the tour group would be surrounded with guards with machine guns and that it is common for people in those countries to come up to you and spit on you if they hear you talk English. “Those” people hate “us” people. I think that shows that we aren’t the only country full of discrimination and hate I suppose. Needless to say, mom and dad won’t be going there. It isn’t more of a freedom or a biased that I don’t like when people don’t speak English, it is simply frustrating when you can’t even understand someone. It isn’t right of me to think that way, but oh well, I do.
That isn’t right, but it’s frustrating. At my moms work, the owners are Egyptian; they walk around all day talking in Egyptian. It is funny; you know when they are talking about you because the only thing in the conversation you understand is your name. They can’t change that! My mom will tell them to speak English, they just laugh. Growing up my best friend was Spanish; when I would go to her house it was awful. Her family only spoke Spanish and refused to speak English. I would be sitting on the couch, “what did they say,” “what is she saying,” because I didn’t have any clue. It was amusing but yet it was also uncomfortable. It was uncomfortable to be around people and not know what anyone is saying. On the other hand, my mom and dad travel a lot to other countries, and they have no clue what the other languages are and they walk around talking English. I am sure people think the same thing about my parents when they hear them talking in English.
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