Human beings are truly amazing creatures.

We have the capabilities to do practically

anything. Some individuals do so and others do not. For some reason we believe that it is

necessary to live out these ideals or we will not be successful. Many feel it is a priority to have a

high income in order to be happy, which is not true. Many families that live paycheck to

paycheck are happier than families with money. Another ideal is that you need to be the owner of

a big business or the CEO of some corporation to be successful. Also not true, many Wal-Mart

employees are happy with their jobs and life. There is no need to try and live out these ideals if

they are not what you wish.

The creators of these ideals are the parent of generations past. They installed in their

children’s heads that they need an education to be successful. Then the children of those parents

told their children that, and it just had a domino effect from then. As the ideals went from

generation to generations some new ones came into play. These ideals are the qualities of the

modern day renaissance child they exist for the sole reason of creating the perfect child. And the

perfect child does not exist because no one is near perfect. So in reality no one can live up to all

of these ideals. Yes, many are possible and people do live them out but no one man or woman

has lived them all out, it just is no probable.

As a result to trying to live out these ideals and never succeeding one may feel like a

failure. There fore giving them negative thoughts about themselves causing self-esteem issues.

Trying to live out these ideals does not mean that one is always going to develop self-esteem

issues or any kind of side effect. If one were to strive towards becoming a performing artist and

fell just short of Broadway, the positive could be that they were in some big time musicals. To
people who live by these ideals and think everyone should follow them, they can think of

everyone as a failure who does not meet their criteria. If the world was a place were everyone

had to live by the current eras ideals everyone would be a failure.