Too Much Work..

Reflecting on the words of Dorothy Day the great is a bit hard to follow. “No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do.” Many have different views as to what that “work” should be but in my view for my generation I think it focuses on education and responsibility. If you can sit around and mope about how bad your life sucks then go out and make something of it. People now have the habit of complaining about every job they have but they have no right for they have the opportunity to change things. They can maybe continue their education to start a career versus dropping out and maintaining a small part-time job to raise a family. Instead of lying around or partying and being severely dependent, this generation now needs to become independent. This generation needs to take advantage of what they have when the opportunity strikes them first. Instead of “taking a break” between high school and college students just need to start back up after that summer so they will continue their studies and will have a better chance of not being behind and graduating. Now a days people think that they want to take the easy way out. Some things that are happening more and more are kids dropping out of school thinking that they are too good to get an education, which they will never need anything they sit in class listening to in the future. When their parents stop paying for them they need money so they settle with a part time job. Job after job and with little to no opportunity a baby comes along and makes things three times worse. So now there is a child who has two young uneducated parents who can barely make it by who now for the rest of their lives will be balancing between poor jobs just to keep up with the bills. What this generation needs to realize is that the “easy way” may be easy in the beginning but it becomes harder in the long run. This something that I believe should only take common sense to realize but that was only because I was raised to think so. I think that what happens with this generation is really effected by how they are raised by the generation beforehand. Learning this lesson really affects my future as a leader. Knowing this had brought me to want to help those who don’t understand what they are messing up on. I had a friend who had dropped out of school and asked me to go with them to their GED classes. I was sitting there in a small room with a mix between people who were younger and older than I. Some were old enough to be my grandparents. I was sitting there during the whole presentation thinking to myself, “This is so easy.. it’s almost insulting.” Everything that they were going over was things that I remember learning in fourth grade, I felt so bad. How could these people like what they are doing? I was the only person in the entire room other than the instructor who is still in school. Everyone was asking me for help and had questions that were so obvious that I just couldn’t believe where their education has gone. I want to help those who don’t want to continue their education realize that that is what society is all about today, education. Seeing all these examples has really helped me want to continue my school and has given me the confidence to know that I will overcome my goals and I will have a great future.