Look at these kids
Have any of you ever sat back and just laughed at yourselves? Have you ever just been amused at yourself and wondered who in the world you could be fooling? I had that epiphany today when I was waking up in my bed around two o’clock this afternoon and I realized that I had slept in the entire day. I roused myself quickly, knowing that I would have to go and get to my radio show when I noticed my girlfriend , who supposedly has a job supervising my apartment complexes, sleeping right next to where I was a few second ago. So I went downstairs and saw my daughter doing dishes and cleaning up the house from a wild night of partying and having a good time. Then I saw her son lying on the couch sleeping and I saw her other son sleeping on her bed fast asleep too. This who scene really got me thinking about how this entire house that I occupy is full of people who have absolutely no responsibility at all.
It got me thinking about a whole multitude of strange thoughts. The first thought that came to mind was that I couldn’t believe how decadent the society that we live in has become when we can laugh in the face of the world when we wake up at three in the afternoon. It really hit me again when I remembered that the night before we were heading back from Galveston when my girlfriend’s son called his friend and then mocked him a little bit when he friend wouldn’t go out and get wasted with him on a Sunday night. It amazes me that we can have three grown kids in the house and none of them have to do anything. None of them have jobs and none of them have any responsibilities to take care of during the day.
This got me thinking about what my girlfriend and I have done to these kids. Are we spoiling them? When I was a kid I worked and I had a car. None of these kids have a car, none of them work and their mother drives them around like a taxi service. On top of that they EXPECT to be driven around like their mother was their personal taxi. I mean my daughter has a car because I let her borrow one of mine to drive. So now I am looking back and wondering what the heck we are doing. I will tell you what we are doing. We are living in the most decadent society in the world. We are living like there is no recession.
I heard just the other day while I was listening to the radio that three of the biggest radio personalities were going to have to cut back their country club memberships. They are going to cut back to one less car in the family and not take a Christmas vacation with their family. It amazes me because I am looking out of the window on the tenth floor of the office building and I can see thousands and thousands of cars. When I came out of the store earlier I saw twenty five Hispanic men fighting each other top work…and the worst part is that we are trying to kick out illegal immigrants. Who is going to work if they don’t? Our children don’t work, I don’t work, we don’t work and the world doesn’t work!
After I reached that point I started to calm down. I realized that I had been young once and when I was that way I created something with my work ethic. I built up a system of passive income streams and now I don’t have to work anymore. But when I think about these kids and my kids I start to bug out. I saw one kid sitting in a chair with an iPod and his mother had no idea where he got this thing. He told her that his friend had just gotten the newest version so he was lending the boy his old one. Why do our children have iPods folks? What the heck is an iPod?
What is the deal with these cells phones, TVs, stereos, and computers? Why don’t our children have to work for them? I will tell you again that it is because we are living in such a decadent society. I hear people say that we are in a recession and I can only laugh? What are you talking about? Where is this so-called recession? We are living the life of royalty and I am saying that I really enjoy it. The problem is our children. I am embarrassed and can’t even look my own children in the face and ask them why they don’t have jobs at their age. What are they going to do? They need to earn this life of luxury, they need to get out their and work, they need to start building their own life so that one day they can sit back and live in the lap of luxury instead of living of their parents.