Honor

I heard a quote recently and don't really know who the original source is.  On the internet it is attributed to both Plato and Louis Pasteur.  I guess it doesn't really matter.  It's a good thought either way.

"What is honored in  a country is cultivated there."

I remember when I was in Hong Kong, there were trading cards in all the little shops with movie and pop stars faces on them.  I thought it was so ridiculous.  I was so glad it wasn't that way in the states.  Fast forward 20 years.  In our society today, what is revered more than celebrity?  Whether it is music or movies or sports or just the latest idiot who is willing to bare all on reality TV.  That's what we, as a  society, are honoring these days and that is what we are cultivating.

Sick huh?

Wouldn't it be great if we honored hard work or paying your own way or fulfilling your commitments?  Wouldn't it be great if everyone wasn't looking for the easiest, fastest, most self-promoting way to get ahead?

I'm certainly not above the fray.  I let Lucy fill out the Publisher's Clearinghouse every time it comes and even though I don't do it, I always want to by a powerball when the jackpot gets big. 

Wish I could think of a way to turn the tide; help everyone honor something worthwhile and cultivate something new.

Yeah that was kind of a lazy post. Oh well.  It's a good thought even if I didn't expound on it well.