I have a confession to make.  When I get bored, I generally plop myself onto the sofa, pick up the television remote control, and start channel surfing.  I used to read when I was bored, but I confess that I find myself turning to the television more often than to a good book lately.  For one thing, television is so easy.  It’s right there, just waiting to be turned on.  In addition, there are so many channels today that I can usually find something that catches my interest.  Even when there is nothing on the television channels that interest me, I can usually find a “movie on demand” or I will remember that I had previously recorded a program on my DVR and then I am set to go.  I have to admit that when I am bored, I just settle into my couch potato ways.

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Do you ever think about what drives you to keep going every day – day in and day out, sunrise and sunset, seven days a week?  For me, I think a lot of my determination to keep going, even when things get rough and I feel blue, revolves around my family.  When I was younger, I wanted my parents to be proud of me.  I wanted to get the education that they had been unable to accomplish due to financial constraints.  Later, when I had finished school, I wanted to pursue a career and prosper in my chosen field.  That desire is one of the things that makes me come to work, day in and day out, even when it sometimes feels like sheer drudgery.  My parents are no longer living, but I do want to set a good example and be a positive role model for my children.  I want them to see that, if they set goals and work hard to achieve them, then they can go a long way in life.  I also want to show them that adversity is something to overcome and persevere through as opposed to something to be defeated by.

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I think the greatest invention of all of history is electricity.  It has completely revolutionized the way we live time and time again.  Electricity gave us the ability to better light our homes and to refrigerate our food, for example.  In addition, electricity gave us the ability to listen to radio and later to watch television.  Those two devices changed the way that people received information about the world.  They also brought people closer together in terms of their culture and habits.  All of America used to watch The Ed Sullivan Show and today many people watch and then discuss various reality television shows.  More recently, electricity has paved the way for the computer and the Internet as well as social media sites.  These have truly revolutionized the modern world by bringing the whole world as close to us as our keyboards. Without electricity, none of this would have been possible.