Downward Spiral

I just finished reading a blog that my lovely friend, Shara, wrote about her wedding pictures and photographer that took them. She inspired me to write this blog especially since I have been thinking about this a lot.

It seems people do not take pride in their work these days. By that, I simply mean that no one puts forth their best effort and stands by it in what they are performing. Lately, I have been dealing with correcting a lot of careless mistakes that some of the plumbers have made in the past year at my work place. It has cost us thousands of dollars and a few major headaches to improve the circumstances. If someone had just double checked this, or tightened it twice, made a follow up call, or put just a little more thought in it, things would have been okay. No one cares now. They only care about getting a paycheck, buying their $12.00+ meal, a pack of cigarettes, and other unnecessary items. It seems like the value of work is decreasing incredibly fast.

A couple mornings ago I was getting ready to go to the gym. I put a hair-tie in my hair to keep it back from my vigorous work out. As I was making the third loop (which I have done before with that same hair tie and it is brand new) I felt the snap and watched it fly across the bathroom. I couldn't help but think that situation is happening too often in my life. If it is not the hair-tie snapping, it is the bike pump lever breaking. Or the pool flotation having a hole in it before you take it out of the package. Everything is so cheaply made. Maybe that is a good thing because it keeps the economy on the up and up, but at the same time this is only another example of the value of work rapidly decreasing. Manufactures are using cheaper products to make their marketable items and do it in such a way that they do not last very long.

If only people realized the value of work and taking pride in what they do, I think we would see a major change in the attitude of the world. I sound like Miss America giving her statement on how to make the world a better place by writing this. It just makes me a little sad that people living on the earth today are going in a downward spiral in their morale.