I come from a long line of woodspeople.....you know- the kind that you can drop off in the middle of a 10,000 acre forest nakid with no tools.....and have them show up the next day at your house....fully clothed with a picture of the 3 story cabin they had built the night before.....only to drop off some fresh produce they had grown this morning..and then head back to tend to the garden and cabin.
My great-grandfather was one of the first people to climb all of the Adironack peaks...and helped to start the Adirondack Club...he and his wife lived comfortably until the ages of 105 and 104.
Both of my Grandfathers are in their 80's and refuse to lead the life of normal old people...
At the age of 83 one of my grandfathers was climbing a tree to remove some dead branches on a plot of land he owns in upstate NY.....he ended up slipping and falling 15 ft. to the ground ...breaking his leg, arm and ribs......he couldn't move to get help.....so he ended up where he had fallen 17 hours before he was found by a family member....8 months later he was back at that same tree to finish the job.
My other Grandparents built(with their own hands) a beautiful cabin on the shores of a quiet lake more then 50 years ago...it cost them a total of 500$...they are now surrounded by close to fifty cabins/houses on that same lake all with an average value of well over 200,000$ apeice.....one of them actually has a swimming pool no more then 20 ft from the shore line because "our daughters don't like to swim in the lake".
Whats going on with our society? Where is the work ethic today? Where are we placing our values?
I feel bad for the children of tomorrow...they are not going to see these types of things. Will they ever know what it's like to obtain goals with their own two hands?.....Or will they become products of the convenience that is replacing what most would consider hard work.....and others would consider satisfaction?
My great-grandfather was one of the first people to climb all of the Adironack peaks...and helped to start the Adirondack Club...he and his wife lived comfortably until the ages of 105 and 104.
Both of my Grandfathers are in their 80's and refuse to lead the life of normal old people...
At the age of 83 one of my grandfathers was climbing a tree to remove some dead branches on a plot of land he owns in upstate NY.....he ended up slipping and falling 15 ft. to the ground ...breaking his leg, arm and ribs......he couldn't move to get help.....so he ended up where he had fallen 17 hours before he was found by a family member....8 months later he was back at that same tree to finish the job.
My other Grandparents built(with their own hands) a beautiful cabin on the shores of a quiet lake more then 50 years ago...it cost them a total of 500$...they are now surrounded by close to fifty cabins/houses on that same lake all with an average value of well over 200,000$ apeice.....one of them actually has a swimming pool no more then 20 ft from the shore line because "our daughters don't like to swim in the lake".
Whats going on with our society? Where is the work ethic today? Where are we placing our values?
I feel bad for the children of tomorrow...they are not going to see these types of things. Will they ever know what it's like to obtain goals with their own two hands?.....Or will they become products of the convenience that is replacing what most would consider hard work.....and others would consider satisfaction?