Hard Work?

Like with all new things in my life, I constantly look at whatever it is over and over again.  I must admit that I have been repeating this occurrence with this blog and I must say that my posts have been dreadfully boring so far.  My promise to you is to make things a little bit more entertaining and worth your while.   I thought I would only be posting once a day but here I am on the first day with my third post.  I know that I am not a great writer nor will I ever probably be but they say if you do want to be good at something, you must do it and do it constantly.  This logic can be applied to all things and tasks small and large.  


I was just on the phone with a friend and I mentioned that the other day my friends and I had partaken in the insurmountable task of baking pizza... from scratch, dough and all.  I informed my friend that the pizza turned out well but that the dough could have used a bit of work.  It wasn't that it tasted bad or anything but nor was it the greatest dough ever made by mankind.  Now if you know me at all, which you probably don't, you may know or will find out that I am slightly a perfectionist.  I am not saying that I am perfect, not in the slightest, but I do like things done a certain way, presented in a certain way, cooked in a certain way, taste a certain way, etc.  Usually that "certain way" is the what I imagine to be as "perfect".  It was my first time making pizza dough from scratch and I was proud of it but it could definitely be better and I will not settle until I get my "perfect" dough.  Going back to my friend, she mentioned that I could have just as easily bought pre-made pizza dough and just added the sauce and toppings to it.  My initial thought was "duh" - no offense to my friend.  But, yes, this thought had crossed my  mind and had been put into practice before but this time I had wanted to make the dough from scratch.  


I think that in this day and age, most people have forgotten the value and benefit of hard work.  Yes, it is so much easier to just buy the pre-made items and consume them but it will taste all the more sweeter when you have worked so hard to create what you are about to consume.  I'm just using food as an analogy, but this belief, rather fact, applies to everything else on this beautiful planet.  Of course, I'm not going to go out and build my own car or anything of the sort; but whatever I can do myself, I will try my best to do and do it successfully.  I feel like this generation, my generation, has gotten lazy and relied too heavily on the work of other people.  There still are a select few out there that work very hard for what they accomplish, and I congratulate and admire those individuals.  They are realizing that although things can be bought, true happiness cannot - it is earned.


I am clearly no philosopher nor am I a preacher.  I just think I have been fortunate enough to realize some things in life - one of which is that hard work pays off.  Things are always easier when you "buy" them, but when you work hard for whatever you want, you are physically and mentally in better shape.  This may all seem like I am just rambling on and I am, but I hope that some of this makes sense.  I just thought I'd blog about it.  I may update more on how I feel about this tomorrow.  Until then, good night.