"To people in many countries, Americans are overly ambitious. What we think of as a healthy work ethic, they see as needless effort or even arrogance" (Trenholm 352).
I personally feel that many Americans are too busy focusing on wealth, fame, power and a host of other shallow desires. When one desire is met, the bar is raised, again and again. We are greedy people and we have too much pride, which will lead to our destruction.
We are focused on the wrong things. Here's a poem I wrote:
OOPS! It Was Never Yo Show
Freely by faith in Christ we're offered the gift of eternal life
What this world has to offer can never measure up to this
This world as we know it
Is surely amiss
Improper. Out of Order.
Yes, that's exactly what I mean
We tend to elevate on the material things
When that house as you know it
May surely foreclose
And that car your driven
Remember . . . there's repo's
Oh, Yeah
Our looks.
They shall surely fade
So stop living so shallow
And get down underneath
Search for the Spiritual, so Eternal Blessings can flow
Now take a look around because
OOPS!
It Was NEVER Yo Show
1 comment:
Wow! Thanks for sharing your poem with the class. Do you think those that participate in the Christian faith, or 'culture' for that matter have a hard time accepting a 'free gift' of eternal life as you mentioned in your poem? If not why? If so, do you think it may be because we are taught to earn what we have by constantly raising the bar, as you mentioned? :)
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