Whomever said "happiness is acquired through time" lied.
Society has a really successful way of advancing. First we hunted and gathered, then we decided we were sick of that so we raised cattle and grew crops. This took less time out of our day, and with new time, came leisure. We built homes instead of living in caves and we started talking and communicating out of more than necessity. We even created music.
All of our monumental cultural achievements have been created out of boredom or annoyance with the norm. We wanted something new and since we couldn't find it we invented it ourselves. Humanity is great at coming up with new ideas to fill our time and minds, but as of late, we've been struggling a little.
See with shorter activities, comes shorter attention spans. Nowadays we like to do things instantly: "instant coffee", "instant communication", "instant access". No longer do kids dream for years about becoming a superstar: they can achieve it overnight with Guitar Hero. Want to be an athlete? Awesome, how about watching the NFL, starting your own fantasy football league, and playing Madden on the 360!
All of these activities were created to motivate entertain and enable people (or to simply play off of motives- but you can flip that coin either way). However, when you cram everything you can down a kid's throat you end up overexposing them to that dream. Fill that dream up with all of this junk and it just pops. For no longer is there any space left for imagination. Without imagination... well it's just no fun any more.
Children are jumping around from dream to dream today. Not because they don’t know what they want, or through a lack of motivation. It's simply because people want to exercise their creative muscle: they want to dream and imagine. We’re tearing ourselves apart by devaluing what makes kids kids. People complain because children no longer seem as motivated as they used to but really it is society that’s destroying motivation, not anything else.
We live life with scheduled insanity. People wake up and drink coffee, go out and work, play, work, play, and play until midnight. Then they grab grab six hours of sleep and repeat the process. Oh... don’t forget the Ambien they take to help themselves fall asleep, or the ibuprofen and ice after the big workout.
I told you where the problem starts, you show me when it will end?
Society has a really successful way of advancing. First we hunted and gathered, then we decided we were sick of that so we raised cattle and grew crops. This took less time out of our day, and with new time, came leisure. We built homes instead of living in caves and we started talking and communicating out of more than necessity. We even created music.
All of our monumental cultural achievements have been created out of boredom or annoyance with the norm. We wanted something new and since we couldn't find it we invented it ourselves. Humanity is great at coming up with new ideas to fill our time and minds, but as of late, we've been struggling a little.
See with shorter activities, comes shorter attention spans. Nowadays we like to do things instantly: "instant coffee", "instant communication", "instant access". No longer do kids dream for years about becoming a superstar: they can achieve it overnight with Guitar Hero. Want to be an athlete? Awesome, how about watching the NFL, starting your own fantasy football league, and playing Madden on the 360!
All of these activities were created to motivate entertain and enable people (or to simply play off of motives- but you can flip that coin either way). However, when you cram everything you can down a kid's throat you end up overexposing them to that dream. Fill that dream up with all of this junk and it just pops. For no longer is there any space left for imagination. Without imagination... well it's just no fun any more.
Children are jumping around from dream to dream today. Not because they don’t know what they want, or through a lack of motivation. It's simply because people want to exercise their creative muscle: they want to dream and imagine. We’re tearing ourselves apart by devaluing what makes kids kids. People complain because children no longer seem as motivated as they used to but really it is society that’s destroying motivation, not anything else.
We live life with scheduled insanity. People wake up and drink coffee, go out and work, play, work, play, and play until midnight. Then they grab grab six hours of sleep and repeat the process. Oh... don’t forget the Ambien they take to help themselves fall asleep, or the ibuprofen and ice after the big workout.
I told you where the problem starts, you show me when it will end?
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