Entitlement woes

During Fr. James “Jim” Donelan, S.J.’s grand tour lecture series at the Asian Institute of Management, my dear, late classmate Gel Tamayo recounted this spiel:

“You people are lucky in your life’s journey. You have passed through a great crossroad, whereby you have seen the coming of the celluloid film, the Betamax, the VHS, the Sony Walkman, and the first Apple personal computer. The world is changing fast. But I worry for the youth, because of the new and modern electronic gadgets. Young people these days might tend to have less enthusiasm and less zeal to read the great classics and the best literature. But you guys have experienced sitting down in some quiet corner to read the assigned and unassigned literary masterpieces. With your experience holding and chewing a book or novel, and reading the classics, as well as your laborious use of the slide rule and four-function calculator, you were able to deeply and effectively exercise your minds and stretch your imagination, far into the enviable realm of the great authors and mentors.”