Move me by Jake Ross-Sheehy

Mo-ti-va-tion adj; used to describe the false sense of enthusiasim [sic] one shows to get their jackass boss to leave them alone (Urban Dictionary)
Now, I bet a lot of people are going to be like, “nuh-uh, you’re so wrong”. Well, what do they know about motivation? Who are they to truly understand the meaning behind it?
What I’m really asking is what is motivation? It doesn’t have much of an effect on success because if someone has brains, they can half-ass almost everything and still pass with flying colors (if they’re lucky and know how to “work” people). Sometimes people are short on brilliance, but pour their blood, sweat, and tears into all of their work and still barely scrape by.
Don’t get me wrong; motivation can affect your life in great ways. For example, people who are motivated tend to do their homework, they might learn to play guitar *well*, and maybe even have a life on Friday nights.
But why would they do their homework when they get B’s on their tests anyway? Why would they play an instrument when they could just listen to people who have an idea of what they’re doing? Who needs friends?
If you’re like me, you’d understand these thoughts, perhaps even had similar ones. It’s not that we’re just lazy, or at least I speak for myself, I don’t do nothing by choice, in fact it frustrates me quite a lot and I bet I’m not the only one. But that’s not the worst part, there’s this idea that if you punish kids for being lazy they wont do it again -- but that’s not helping anything, in fact it’s probably hurting. Even if by some miracle it actually worked, you’d still risk making those poor kids go insane under all that pressure.
Now I’m not saying you should give all unmotivated students straight A’s, that would just be a bad idea, all I’m saying is that maybe you shouldn’t be so quick to judge us as unworthy, or as slackers, because some of us can’t control it.
Obviously we all will have to learn to get around it at some point or time, or we’d all end up on the streets (and I hate the cold). But no one can help us, this is something we have to learn on our own. If you try and punish us, we’ll take it and then proceed to do it again, because one thing that all unmotivated people have in common is a thick skin (metaphorically speaking, of course).
So what I’m really trying to say here is, mind your own business, this is our problem, our curse, and nobody can help us but ourselves. Do us all a favor and be understanding for once.