Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Entitlement Mentality

It seems to me that a commonality among young people, and even adults, is an entitlement mentality. I'm sure that I don't know all of the reasons why the younger generations of America possess this commonality, but one thing for sure is that they don't know how good they have it.

It has always been a dream of mine to take my kids on humanitarian trips around the world to show them how the rest of the world lives. I want them to see how good they have so that they don't get caught up in what everyone else has and what they don't have, the way that a lot of people today do.

I want them to serve people and do hard things. I want them to live in conditions that will make them stronger and appreciate a simple life.

Home Schooling our kids will allow us to travel more and take their studies with us or rearrange the time they spend studying. I know this is a big dream and it may take us a while to get there, but it is important to me. This is important to me because I believe that serving our fellow men moves us closer to spiritual exaltation, which is all that really matters, more than excessive financial accumulation or professional success would. The world would have us think that the latter is all that really matters.

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