Today’s Children Dream Big: Do Small

Dead lines for university and college applications are soon ending. Keeping this in mind, a clear division between young adults has been painted. One half are the big dreamers, the other half are the ones that are actually planning on working for something in their life. Reaching a maturity level, it is finally becoming obvious that to get anywhere in life, one must work hard and dream big-or so it seems.

However, dreaming big is an action that has changed from generation x to generation y. Generation x being the generation of our parents and generation y being our generation (young adults [18-35]). The original definition of dreaming big was – dreaming big AND working hard towards achieving your goals. Dreaming big was a responsibility, a thrive to do better and get far in life.

However, as days pass, it seems that the phrase ‘dreaming big’ is nothing but a literal statement. So many young adults are dreaming big. They do have a lot of potential, a lot of passion and a lot of dreams. However, they also lack common sense. With common sense on a descent, so is the meaning of thriving hard, and doing your research.

Young adults of today may have big dreams, and passion, but sadly they are missing the most important thing – hard work.  Sorry to say, but the day you get no where in life, I will have nothing else to say but, ‘you deserve it’. How are you planning on becoming the next Gandhi, the next  Martin Luther King, the next Thomas Edison, the next Newton, the next Aristotle, the next Nobel Prize winner if you are simply going to sit around and -dream big-?

You can sit meditate, invent, and hope all you want but the fact remains you will not get far by just doing such. I have seen so many young children with dreams who actually have talents. Their talents now seem to be hindering and misleading them to the point of no return. Their veins are filled with pride and the ‘I’m fly’ feeling. Their social group is vast containing people from all different age/sex/ethnicity groups. They have spread through their schools listed as the most ‘lovable’ or ‘popular’. Besides making them feel great, these things have also blinded them.

Just because you are a social butterfly who has gained everyone’s acceptance at school, it doesn’t mean you are such in the world. Vice versa. I feel that many youngsters with talents are failing to get their talents recognised. It seems that our standards of ‘becoming something great’ are reducing more and more. As these children are completely satisfied being in high school the rest of their lives. The word university, and career seems to mean nothing. As long as they are accepted in their social group, so what if they are broke ass living on bank street? They were once upon a time the ‘cool kids’…

The thing that mostly disgusts me about these children is that today they sit around mocking office jobs and the big CEO’s. Little do they realise, that with their work skills not only are they creating false hope, but they are getting no where in life. For all the children who told me office jobs were stupid (there are so many of you), think again, it is a means of income, a stable job, fit for a stable future. Before you get emotional, I am not proposing that your interests are not stable, I am simply proposing that your goal which is – dream big do nothing – is not stable.

Yes you are a great painter, singer, actor etc. But you can’t add 5 + 6 without thinking about it for ten minutes, or using your mobile phone to add them together. In case you are wondering, the answer is 11. You can’t open your browser for anything but Facebook or Myspace. You don’t realise that Africa is a continent – not a country. You can’t talk without using 4000 words of slang in every sentence. How exactly are you planning on broadening your talents?

Do you really thing someone is just going to walk up to you and say, “Hey budd, I like you, here’s a contract.” Yeah it can happen, but are you really betting on being the 1 in a million that it happens to? It’s pretty shameful, and you know there is something wrong when you are thirty two, working at the corner store, and leeching off your parents income telling them, “Just a few more years till I’m a millionaire…”

You want my opinion? I’m guessing since your reading this, you do. Maybe you need to work towards your goal, actually plan on getting yourself to university, lay off the music, Facebook, Myspace, chips, movies and chocolate pudding; and get ready to dive into some educational knowledge. Do your research. Find out what career you are going to chose. then;

- How can you get into it?

- Are you qualified?

- Do you have any previous experience in your field?

- Are your grades up to date?

- If not, what can you do to brush yourself up?

- Is it worth sitting around like a lame child -waiting around-?

-  Ask for information. Not only is it showing initiative, it’s a step forward to getting serious, talk to your teachers, professors, guidance counselors, and work out a plan.

You don’t want to be one of the messed up adults you once made fun off. Because chances are, the next generation of ‘cool kids’ will use you as their example of -retard101-.

TTYL GENERATION X!

“Always keep one foot on the ground, while the other one floats around in heaven…” – AMY (R.I.P. September 23, 2007)

- Maria