Teddy Roosevelt preached that the American character was “not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.”
Yet it seems that we spend an inordinate amount of time trying to live a life of easy peace. That in fact we shirk from danger and hardship and from bitter toil.
What do we want for our children? Are we, in America, slowly eroding away the “hard work” ethic and motivation to improve that brought us to this place on the world stage. Is the vast wealth our nation and the quality of life that is has brought, our down fall?
