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Forwarded from my Grandpa:

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world doesn’t care about your
self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up,it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

A little insight into one of the many oddities of my life:

I sometimes have odd mental blocks that make actions requiring minimal work seem more taxing than actions requiring more work.  Some days I can see straight through these, others see me falling for them.

Example:

Even though it is obviously much easier for me to grab my coffee cup and bring it in when I get home from work, I will sometimes leave it in the car overnight, and then come out and get it in the morning (even when I consciously notice the cup).  Why?  For some reason, the simple act of grabbing it and lugging it in when I’m tired at the end of a long day seems more taxing than just coming back in the morning for it.

Sillyness.

I am not great. I am but a wink in the eye of time.

My insignificant efforts, alone, mean nothing. But insignificance compounded breeds significance, and gives rise to the entity we call society.

Thus, there is that faintest hope within hopes that our combined significance will bring forth some level of greatness.

When, in fact, this greatness comes of age, our paltry minds will gloat, and back to insignificance they shall return.

Furthermore, our heady air invites the evil that lurks, waiting to grasp a hold of the insignificance within our greatness.

And then, our greatness, once more, shall return to the depths of insignificance from whence it came.