We toil hard all our lives to achieve something. We work 80 hour weeks, sometimes both day and night and then some to make ends meet. We pray and believe in God to work miracles for us to keep our family healthy and happy. We do all the chores that there is to make ourselves happy.

We expect rewards for all our hard work and we feel happy when we get it. True.

We are also happy when another person we know works as hard as us or more and gets his just rewards. That is something we cheer and take inspiration from.

What we can’t digest is instant rewards for nothing.

Reality shows, rings a bell?

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Pop culture in America right now is all about reality shows that is throwing up heroes of no substance at an alarmingly frenetic pace.

Mediocrity is being celebrated and it has left the normal hard working Americans confused. If this is how you can make money and can make that amount of money without any work, forget hard work, then what are we doing work so hard day in and day out?

And if being immoral and being caught doing bad things are what makes you famous… then where is the morality we learnt all our life about and were asked to practice?

Where is the family value system?

If the kid learns that being addicted, singing stray songs on lost love and wearing next to nothing when you touch adolescence can bring you money in millions, how can a parent go talk about how important hard work is and how important morality is to the kids?

Instant rewards are harmful as you can see with these teen stars. They go downhill once they see money without much work; they don’t even know what to do with it. And they believe it will keep coming.

It won’t. And when it stops they don’t know what to do without it.

There is a reason why hard work pays late. It gets you mature, used to and then rewards.

That way you would know the value of it.