| I. Am. A. Dumbass. Holy crap, I need sleep. A 500-word essay on the importance of being prepared? Are you kidding me? What the hell is wrong with Sergeant Atherton? Here it is, in all its glory. The sad thing is, I have to get to school by 7:30 to submit this. And he'll take it, and probably won't read it. I could have copied the Constitution for all he'll know. WARNING: The following passage is in red. This indicates the presence of BULLSHIT.
Being Prepared Being prepared is one of the most important things in
everyone’s lives. What does it mean to be prepared? Being prepared basically means
that you are ready. When you are prepared, you are ready to do your job. When
you are prepared, you are ready to do what you are supposed to do, what you have
to do. Not being prepared is almost never a positive situation; usually, it
causes harm to you, and it can sometimes be detrimental to many others around
you. If you are not prepared, you have failed at your duty—your duty to
yourself, and your duty to your colleagues and teammates. There is no good excuse to not be prepared. Perhaps it is
not such a big deal in school. Maybe one day you bring your notebook home; the
next day, you leave for school, only to arrive and find out that you had
forgotten it back at home. Now, maybe this is not going to hurt you or others
in this particular instance. You didn’t have your notebook; so what? You take notes
on loose-leaf paper in class that day, take the paper home and copy the notes
back into the notebook. Everything is fine, isn’t it? Well, in a way … no, it is not all fine. It is not okay,
especially if you go about with the frame of mind that it is okay. Once you get
an idea about something, it is very difficult to get it out of your mind, and
this goes for this situation as well. In this case, maybe you have gotten the
idea into your head that being unprepared for class is sort of okay. You begin
to forget things more and more and more frequently. And every time you forget
something, you shrug it off as not important. Who cares about being prepared?
It isn’t hurting me or anything, and it certainly isn’t hurting others. Now, this frame of mind certainly isn’t okay, but at least
in this setting it isn’t of very much consequence. However, you really do not
want to go out into the world with this very same frame of mind. Here you are,
walking into your new job for the first time. You go to sit down at your desk,
ready to start working … and you realize that you forgot some papers back at
your home. Big deal, you think. I did it in high school, and it was fine. It’ll
be fine now. That’s what you think, however. Maybe those papers were very
important after all. Even if they weren’t, what are you going to tell your boss
when he or she asks you where your papers are. Oh, I left them at home, sir. Yes, that sounds very professional.
No wonder they hired you. Being prepared beyond your own duty can also be good for
you. Suppose a colleague of yours is absent because of illness. It would sure
say a lot about you if you were prepared to step into your colleague’s shoes
and perform his or her job as well as he or she does. That would make quite an
impression. The moral of the story is: Always be prepared. (537 words)
Ah yes, the 30-minute masterpiece. I'm a regular Shakespeare, aren't I? *gags* |
