All men was created in the image
of God, specifically all man was created based on the masculinity of God having
three main characteristics; therefore, they have become the nature of human
being. These three main characteristics are the desire to fight a battle, the
desire to adventure, and also the desire of a beauty to protect. Focusing on
the male characteristic of having the desire to adventure, the adventure does
not only mean physical adventures, but the idea of a desire of adventure also
means the interest to face challenges, curious for unidentified object or
ideas, and also willing to explore new object or ideas as well. This
characteristic is clearly seen since the past in someone like the inventors,
innovators, researcher, scientist, and also the explorers. Without having those
people in our past, the world today will not be as convenient.
In the modern world today, this
desire to adventure has been lacking especially to the youngsters. Nowadays the
youngsters tend to stay on their comfort zone and being ignorance to their
surrounding by not wanting to explore; this problem is cause by their laziness
which was triggered by the convenience of the modern era today. One of the
examples of common activity that the youngsters have is playing computer games or
watching television which will not develop our mind, but rather making our
brains to become dull; beside that, many of them prefer just to be the user
rather than the developer or the inventor. With this wrong mindset, the
people’s mind will not develop the skill of creativity and also become lack of
knowledge; consequently, the people are not productive such that the world’s
development for new innovations or inventions will be much slower compared to
the past era.
One of the solutions to this
problem is that the parents should be able to limit their children from
activities which tend to make their children to become lazy such as playing
computer games or watching television starting from the young age; however,
this does not mean that they should isolate themselves from the modern
technology, since they could indeed use those technologies to explore new
things. They could use the computer to search for new things and updates that
may make them curious; they could also use the television to watch programs
such as National Geographic so that they may expand their knowledge. With such
activities, they will get use to their desire of adventure that will expand
their knowledge and allow them to expand their creativity such that they may be
productive because someone productive has a lot of knowledge and they know how
to creatively use their knowledge.
Personally, as I was small, my
parents always discourage me from playing computer games or watching cartoons
too long for they will make my brains to become dull. Because of this I started
to use most of my free time to browse the internet for things that I’m find
curious and also to browse for new things and updates. Today, browsing the
internet for new things and things that I’m curious of has been my hobby;
therefore, I was able to become someone who is productive such that I am able
to use my knowledge in many creative ways that could also benefit other people.
As a conclusion, one of the
characteristic of the masculinity of God which is instilled in the male gender
as their nature is the desire to adventure. The desire to adventure should not
necessarily be understood as the desire to go on a physical adventure, but it
means the desire to explore new things, things that bring curiosity although
they may face a challenge. An adventure will be able to develop our knowledge
and also our creativity skill which will lead to productivity. In the world
today, people tend to be lazy and losing their desire to adventure; therefore,
many people nowadays are unproductive due to the lack of knowledge and or
creativity. This is ironic how the people in the past with less technology was
able to become more productive compared to the people in the modern era with developed
technologies and other innovations. To become productive like the inventors
from the past, parents should train their children to limit themselves from
activities that will cause them to become lazy and rather encourage the
children to involve themselves in activities that is challenging that will
trigger them to explore new things out of curiosity; therefore, this will
expand their knowledge and develop their creativity skill enabling them to
become productive. National Geographic Channel has a slogan saying that we
should “live curious.”