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11 Rules of Life

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Someone gave a speech at a High School about eleven 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.

  1. Life is not fair – get used to it!
  2. The world doesn’t care about your self-esteem.
    The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
  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.
  4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
  5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.
    Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: They called it opportunity.
  6. If you mess up, it’s not your parents‘ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
  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.
  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.
  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.)
  10. Television is NOT real life.
    In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
  11. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

(found it on Facebook and worth keeping)

Attitudes are the real figures of speech

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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

― Edwin H. Friedman

Parable of Immortality

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I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze
and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength,
and I stand and watch until at last she hangs
like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says,
“ There she goes! “
Gone where?
Gone from my sight . . . that is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar
as she was when she left my side
and just as able to bear her load of living freight
to the place of destination.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at the moment
when someone at my side says,
“ There she goes! “
there are other eyes watching her coming . . .
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout . . .
“ Here she comes! “

And that is dying.

Parable of Immortality
Henry van Dyke (1852-1933)