Leading an easy life

Post 51 Be waited on hand and foot

When one is waited on hand and foot, one has only to open one’s mouth to be fed and hold out one’s hands to be dressed. One then is able to lead an easy life, with everything provided for. However, there is always a tendency for a person to be a spendthrift when he is waited on hand and foot. To avoid being a wastrel, he must therefore learn to appreciate the value of everything that he has.

In reality almost all parents have high expectation of their off springs. As such they try their best to create an environment of being waited on hand and foot for their children. They would rather their children only concentrate on their studies, without having to do any house work. This has deprived their children the opportunity to learn everyday practical life.

On another aspect, there is also the likelihood that people who suddenly become rich or important would throw money about like dirt. They begin to lead an easy life and may forget their roots. The windfall helps to expose their strengths or weaknesses in character. This also applies to richly endowed nations which rush to deplete their natural resources and wealth as if tomorrow never comes. They live luxuriously on overdraft from their future generations.

22 June 2010