Humans Are Prone To Being Ungrateful And That Must Change
I think we will all be happier if we accept and appreciate what we have, instead of wishing for what we don't.
Deciding your life and career path is not always easy.
In some families, the parents will push their children to follow a certain path for their career. They will push them to become doctors, lawyers or engineers - a job that will pay well and get them a decent life. This is more often the case in Eastern cultures, not as much over here, but it does happen.
A lot of times the children will want to please their parents and just follow along even if it wasn't the field they were interested in. It can be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it. It could end up not being good if they don't do well in school or have to work a job they don't enjoy. But on the same token, if the choice was left to them, they may choose a field of interest that doesn't get them a good job and end up living unhappily because their job doesn't pay well and their life is difficult. Or choose an easy route, like not going to college which will most likely end up making their life difficult in the future. This highlights the complexity of such decisions. A person's outlook on the situation makes the difference between being happy or miserable.
My family, a mix of Eastern and Western backgrounds, decided to leave me to choose my career path and when I wanted to go to college. While I appreciated that at first, I often wish they hadn't left it up to me. I wish they had pushed me from the start. It seems we always want something different than what we have. No one can be satisfied with what they've got, it seems.
Children whose families push them to follow a certain path, often wish they had it the way I did. But many come to the conclusion later that they needed that push to motivate them to be the best they could. So, it ended up to be a good thing after all.
I think human nature is more prone to being ungrateful. We are always good at finding reasons to be disappointed or unhappy, it seems. But we must dig deeper if we want to find the positives in our lives.
I think we will all be happier if we accept and appreciate what we have, instead of wishing for what we don't.
Don't Let Twitter Make You Ignorant And Proud
We're in the new age of social media and it may be hard for some people to not let it affect them negatively.
I share a Twitter account with my best friend Lexi. She doesn't use it as much as I do because I have somehow become addicted. I love DM-ing all my friend's cool memes, and retweeting things I agree with! I know I sound like someone's mom but hey I really like Twitter!
I have noticed a lot of Twitter beef in my time (definitely sounding like a mom), but I have never really been involved. Until now.
Black Sunday
I saw some random tweet about how hard college athletes have it.
I'm not a college athlete, but I was on track to be one. I was offered multiple scholarships but unfortunately tore my medial collateral ligament, aka my MCL. It was bad enough to take me out of softball completely but it doesn't ruin my life anymore. I do know how much hard work went into getting the offers though and can imagine the amount of stress it puts on people. However, you are getting money to get an education, and if it is a male sport you have the opportunity to make millions of dollars playing professionally. So I think complaining about it is bullshit. Also if you want to complain about it why not quit? Thousands if not millions of grateful kids are willing to take your place.
So I tweeted back, which is very rare for me.
I didn't expect a huge response or any responses at all quite frankly, I was just voicing my annoyance. But I was wrong. A LOT of people felt I was wrong. That is totally OK! I'm OK with other opinions!!! Oh my god, though not a single one made any sense? Everyone who replied was either illiterate or just absolutely out in left field.
She had nothing to say but that I was mad and when I replied that she should be too because of this ungrateful behavior she said I was ignorant?
Another one of my personal favorite replies was the direct message I received from a random stranger! I was debating adding this because it's a mouthful but honestly, it's too golden not to share.
I am still getting tweets constantly and it has been three days. I am now convinced that Twitter is for the bold and stupid. I will continue loving the memes they post but now know you can't call out student-athletes.