Conaeolos
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They lied to you. Their still lying to you, but don’t worry it not cause their evil. They think their acting in your best interests but unless their someone you want to be its all rather trite. It time you start hearing about being an adult, it time you start hearing some raw truth. Time to know you can learn things for everyone but not everything we say is worth your consideration.What advice would you give to kids going into high school? Specifically about their future and so on?
So what’s the big lie? Here a nice way Alan Watts put it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoTmNU_5A0) life's music not a chase or a math problem. You've got to enjoy the process if your going to enjoy the results and that can be hard as sometimes the process appear like it going to be everything you despise. The process is right now. So if you don't feel accomplished now than what makes you think you will feel that way tomorrow?
But, I want to make it more real. So: you got mostly praise on your high school plan, which probably will not work cause your a 15 year kid - what do you know? Your horrible at plans. So that lesson one - failure is good, people praise is meaningless. Embrace it. You going to have a lot of it in your life. It why we must treat life loosely. Seriousness helps no-one, learning to relax and follow with the currents is essential. Its not going to come natural not cause it hard to learn but because so many people teach you thing you must unlearn.
Success doesn’t come from climbing a ladder. You know how to read and write and do basic math? You probably know as much as 60-70% of this country, which just shows how little you can compete in the real world. The top 1% in china is more than all the kids in our entire country and we are going global. If high school taught you anything of worth all it graduates wouldn’t be struggling so much. You go because your expected to go, being true to your commitment is apart of feeling good about oneself, it apart of feeling accomplished now but never mistake you get out of it only what you demand from it and more demand the simple passing of the bare minimum.
People are going to say do well at this high school test so you can go to a good collage, learn to study etc - and those are worthy challenges and you can learn a lot from excelling at that, but I going to tell you right now don’t ever take a dime of debt to do it or think a failure or setback has any real meaning. It all a practice match. If you focus you abilities there it will be one of the most short-sighted decisions of your life. You don’t borrow money on a gamble and that is all schooling will ever be, a good bet…if you really want to be a doctor or lawyer and you need to get certified, then take your time and earn it. If not, be creative and never take a easy road(will just but you in high competitive situations), don’t take “free” money with strings(its usually a trap) - just because that what you told it the right thing to do is meaningless. The right thing for who? You are the only one looking out for you now chump - the worlds a harsh place and mommy and daddy are sheltering you, people are fighting for themselves, but only so you can learn and grow to become the dragon people should fear not the rabbit running for their life.
Before you get that job at McDonalds and one month turn to 7 years. I want understand why you get paid less than panning for gold in the outback for that job. It ain't cause it not hard. You skills are simply worth jack in the market. You got no reputation. You have no creative ideas and even if you did no one trust you enough to let you practice with their resources. Life ain’t a charity nor is safe and sterilized school assignment. You have one advantage: you're young with little to loss, and that's your competitive advantage if your hungry for it and fight to utilize it as an opportunity - you can move where the oppurtunies are, you spend the 18 hour days etc doing what it take to raise up, to learn valuable skills, to build a reputation….I know you don't know how...so ask, try, experiment, take risks - you've got nothing to loss when you have nothing accumulated and that is the only reason you even a chance to play.
You want to be rich, happy and successful? You got to learn one thing: to be valuable. You get out of life what you make it….
So let's help you develop that. Step one is becoming alive again, cause look at you - you look beat.