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Looking at the Big Picture: Nobody Owes you Anything!!
For my next installment in the “Looking at the Big Picture” Dot Com Personal Development series, I bring to you a short, but sweet article regarding a simple fact that many people forget to take into account. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter who you are, or what you did, nobody owes you. Unless, of course, someone ACTUALLY owes you by way of you loaning them money or something, or them saying that they owe you one.
But that goes without saying.
I bring this point up, because I’ve realized that the youth of tomorrow seems to think that they are entitled to certain privileges, or they have a right to do such and such. This mentality is absolutely, and entirely FALSE! What did these people do to make them think they were entitled to anything at all??
When I was young, I was raised with the concept that you had to work hard if you wanted to achieve something in life. Nothing is ever free (unless you participate in one of my contests :)) and nothing is simply handed to you. If anyone can shed some light on the matter of why the youth of today seems to think they can expect something as a right without first having to prove themselves - I would love to hear your input.
Although this idea applies mostly to the younger generations, as I have previously mentioned, there are certainly people from other demographics that still have this same attitude, say a famous person, or a rich person. It kinda relates back to the article I wrote about “Never Forget where you Came From,” but not exactly to the T.
I don’t have much more to say on the topic, and I would love to hear what you all have to say - but this is something that always amazed me, and here is my post about it. 
So remember, give and you shall receive, but never expect to receive, or you will be sadly disappointed, because really, nobody owes you anything.
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This is because kids today are spoiled and the value system of society overall has really diminished and this bleeds down from parents to children. TV is much different, our tolerance levels have greatly increased, anything goes, sex and violence is cool.
If you look at the 50’s, the mom was home with the kids and dad was working, TV show husbands and wives had separate beds, society was different, children were taught better values, society as a whole had better values. I think so many women working and kids being raised by babysitters is also contributing to this, parents suffer guilt over not spending enough time with their kids and compensate with stuff.
Also I think today’s electronic age with all the toys and gadgets is really a problem, kids in elementary are carrying cell phones, WTF is that??
The focus has shifted from the values that make us good and contributing members of society.
It’s really a crisis and overall we have been declining in this way since the Industrial Revolution, but it gets worse every decade.
Great input and I completely agree - I honestly wish I lived in the 50s for that reason!!
Me too!
Nice article Taris. I think the youth of today are starting to take things for granted. Respect for seniors has drastically gone down.
One of the major reasons is that parents spoil the children and the children who are not spoiled succumb to peer pressure. Not good times.
Thanks!! and yea - i agree I’m sure it is not helping how the parents raise the kids these days
Yeah talking about “Owe you something”. Thats how kids these days behave! They talk to their friends and parents like they owed them a debt in the previous life.. Kinda sad huh
Ben
definitely - sad is not even the word for it - hehehe
On the topic of children: I think children think their parents owe them something because their parents begin this reward system with good behavior. This is a very dangerous thing for parents to start at a young age because I feel thats what breeds this type of attitude.
For example, the other day at work I heard a small child say to his mother: “you haven’t bought me anything since last week! if you buy me this- i will be good and you wont have to buy me anything for awhile!”.
First, “awhile” to a child is a day, LOL. And what surprised me is that the mother just ignored him. I would have layed the smack down because the behavior was down right rude and disrespectful. Actually- I know that ignoring was the best thing to do bec ause it did not stop the behavior and it continued into a tantrum. Obviously the child only did this because he knows it has worked before- and it did. The mother grabbed the article the child wanted and threw it into the cart.
I think the best thing to do is to stop rewarding with materialistic things to shut your kid up because its only good for short term- not the long term…Parents need to begin teaching some values! Like how to shut up and stop annoying retail workers with whining! LOL jk
Great input!! Yes I believe that this kind of reward system is certainly flawed.
Reward FOR doing good, not reward TO GET THEM to do good
I meant, ignoring was NOT the best thing to do LOL