Raising the Bar

"Complacency is a blight that saps energy, dulls attitudes, and causes a drain on the brain. The first symptom is satisfaction with the way things are. The second is rejection of things as they might be. "Good Enough" becomes today's watchword and tomorrows standard.

Complacency makes people fear the unknown, mistrust the untried, and abhor the new. Like water, complacent people follow the easiest course- downhill. They draw false strength from looking back."

If we go through life only doing it the easy way or just trying to get it over with we will never grow as people. . a little quote that reminds me of this is:

"What doesn't kill you will only make you stronger"

This is true, If we examine it further we find that if we push ourselves harder every time we not only grow physically and mentally but we also grow spiritually and it helps us build and define our character. If you slack off all through your teenage years its going to hurt you as you get older.

Being a teenager myself i understand the difficulty of growing up in this culture, a culture that only seems to be focused on impurity and immorality. A culture that doesn't really expect you to do much at all besides the "normal teenager" routine:

-Texting

-Video games

- sitting at the computer till you butt hurts

- having a certain number of Boyfriends/girlfriends by the time you graduate high school. .

and the list goes on and on. . but its true. Unfortunately this is what out society expect of us today.

So what would it take to set your standards higher and accomplish things that the culture would not expect you to do? Raising the bar. . It hard at times but it will pay off, whether now or in the future.