The Undiscovered Country

Moving on . . .

I hear many - and have made a few myself - complaints against today's youth, how they're lazy and exude a terrible attitude of "the world owes me."

There is hope out there!

Two young students straight out of high school worked the summer with us, John and Cooper. Both of them were motivated to both learn and work. Many times they came up to me and asked if I had anything for them to do when outside work slacked. It didn't matter if it was sweeping the floor; they wanted to keep busy.

I had jury duty on Thursday and Friday (will write more about that hopefully soon), so I missed Cooper's last day on Friday.

Today whilst cleaning my desk, I found a folded yellow paper I hadn't seen before.

It read as follows:

Andra,

         Thanks for the opportunity to work with you. Your fun to pick on and always lively in the mornings. I hope to come back next year depending on job offers and really need to get into my line of work, Aviation. I would make a good civil but a better pilot. I would really enjoy it next year if I could work under Casey more and be given a little more responsibility rather being babysat under Abe. Well I hope I have a better understanding and haven't misspelled too many words. I hope to run into you next summer, until then, Good Luck.

Cooper

I can't add any more, because the letter says it all, I think.