Doing Way Too Much is Not Really That Bad

If you’re a young person in your 20s, or say, in your teens from 16-19, you’d rather have fun and merriment all your life.   Considering High School and University joy-killing homework, studying and research, which you think–and actually believe–that you don’t deserve all this stuff, you’re stuck.

But hey! You only live once, and better get on with it and suck it up. You want some excitement.  It’s the only life and time of your chutzpah days will ever know, you’ve always reasoned. And they’re legit and logical wishes to have.

You want some excitement.  If you’ve got the choice–lots of it and not only somewhat sporadically–you’d be waiting and serving tables or landscaping, either your parents’ lawn or other people’s as a job, so you could make money and spend it on a dream-cruise or a weekly hanging-out with a few close friends, which, you know that your parents cringe whenever you go to the pub on Saturday nights.

It’s the time of your happy, carefree days. And you’ve made up your mind to launch your rocket-ship-spree with your life while you’re young.  You see, Mom and Dad could hardly date out as much as they want to, just because their money have already poured out for your books of academia, tuition fees, sports, learner’s permit driving lessons and  phone charges.

You oughta’ get a job! That’s the main thing.  A real good, regular job that demands hard work. You know, the kind of muscle-work that exercises your brain to think and show up for work every day.  You work not because your employers ‘badly need you’. But because you need  money. You work because you still have the youthful strength and good common sense. And money can be had only with work.

As your mother always says, “I don’t get my butt working so hard at home to feed you and give you nice clean beddings every day.”  Now it’s your turn to do a good turn for your home, families and society. Because you can! That’s good logic, isn’t it?

This kind of doing too-much,  though you feel pooped at times, is not that excruciatingly damaging to your brain and pockets. Not necessarily bulge your pockets and bank accounts with good and honest money through your sweat and life put into it. But doing too much til you produce things and get results that benefit you, your family, your society and your bright future looking ahead of you.

And yeah, because you are a good kid, Kid. A real smart one.