Noah+D’s+OpEd+Article



Slackers disgust me. When we are doing a track work out and half of the kids running stop running and start walking ten yards before the finish line, I suck up the pain and push through beyond the end. Or when I’m in a group for a project and I feel like I’m the only one doing any of the work. Or when people ‘don’t feel’ like upholding their morals or beliefs and allow them to be compromised.

I suppose that I am just angered by those people who, it seems, cannot push themselves, mentally, physically or spiritually. It is the oafs who wish to do nothing more than sit in front of television or game console, wasting away the precious hours of the day (and night). It is those that want nothing more than a sedentary life and a job where they can get by without much work and get paid lots. It is those who never live for something, who never dream or have goals, those who never accomplish anything- those who know not satisfaction but ease. It is those who do not know vigor or strain or struggle in the lives, they are but merely surviving.

If there is one thing I know what I want of my future it is that I never fall into becoming a slacker. I want a life in which I push myself and I grow from it; a life of doing what I love; a life of accomplishment and fulfillment; a life where I stand firm and defend my own. I want to lead a life of virtue and vigor.