I had no idea heypartner has contacts sources. I would have taken advantage of this while trying to beat COD1.
People aren't nearly as good as you think they are.....just go to WorldStarHipHop for all the examples you need.
That my parents REALLY DID know what they were talking about. I wish I would have listened better. Now the cycle repeats. My sixteen year old thinks I dont know jack.
That the world is a lot uglier than I thought as a child, and a lot better than I thought as a teenager.
That unless you actually have some idea of what you actually want to do and/or be, college is a complete waste of time, money, and energy. The whole thought behind the 'just having a degree is sooooooooo important' mentality is a complete farce. I've said this a zillion times in a zillion threads: I will forever wish I had joined the military out of high school. I wish someone had put it so bluntly when I was 18. Oh well.
An unpleasant discovery in the vein of the OP's examples - realizing just how "fetishized" people and ANYTHING can be or really IS. Its disturbing, liberating and fascinating at the same time. Why else would El Hitman's threads get so much attention The main thing is knowing that the dreaded state of being called "maturity" and "growing up" really isnt as bad, as restrictive or "uncool" as its made out to be. The innocence of youth probably is THE most special period in our lives. Though I'm not sure if so much of our Peter Pan-ish liberal concepts should be based on the "hands-off" child-like whims of youth.
78.5% of everything you believe is bull****. You are self-deceptive by nature (because the majority of people find reality painful, for good reason). Most of the bull**** you've inherited has not come from people who are inherently dishonest - it's come from people who are inherently self-deluded. They don't know that what they believe is really bull****. The powerful people of the world, those who (in some way) determine acceptable discourse, who decide the rules of the game, have a deep and abiding interest in perpetuating the bull**** that keeps them in power - they need you to continue believing in the rules that keep them in positions of influence. But, in some ways even they are victims of their own bull****. We all have a built-in, constantly created bull**** filter. This is not a filter that keeps bull**** out - it is a filter that only allows bull**** into our brains to make an impression on us, to influence us. Nothing else registers. You did not create this filter. (Have you noticed how plants bend toward the light, tend to grow only in places where the light shines? Imagine yourself as this: you are a field, a fertile field, covered by an opaque dome that blocks the sunlight. But shapes are cut into the hard material of this dome - a pattern here, a symbol there, a phrase or a sentence cut here, and so forth. But, you did not make these patterns. You are the soil, and the plants - but the plants only grow in those patches of soil that the light can reach. The patterns, and their relation to one another, of plant growth are not decided by you. All of the other possible types of growth, all of the patterns of growth that are possible, and extremely limited and ...okay, read this first - I started typing this, then had a friend come visit, and she and I visited and drink cheap whiskey for awhile... and now I've lost interest in wrting this. so, you know, **** it. Carry on wit yo bad self. Corollaries of rule 2: i. Very little of who you are was determined by you. Your beliefs, your tastes, your perspectives, your understanding of who you are and where you fit in the world - most of these were created by the era, the powerful ideas and people, and the culture you live in. Unless you take action, you are always just another item in a context that you have very little part in creating. This does not operate so much as a mandate that you must believe/enjoy in a particular thing. It was done by limiting the options available to you - by limiting the type of things you're capable of believing, the types of things you're capable of enjoying or finding the beauty in, and so forth.
That losing loved ones is inevitable. As a child and even a young adult, I looked at certain family members, mother, grandparents, as having an almost superhero like status. I knew I could count on them to be there always, the best and worst of times. Death, something I will never become immune or used to.
Don't be cynical. Everything's not lost. The standard of living is actually getting better every generation. We're figuring **** out as we go; that's why we're not still doing medieval-type thangs. Keep improving the world. Make it better for your kids. Keep things in perspective and don't be a cynical douche. That's what my high school graduation speech was, anyways. My principal had great stats and **** to back it up, and it seems kinda obvious when you think about it. Technology gets better by the minute, and for the most part it improves lives. Also, you won't remember most of the advice/lessons people tell you. Make a conscious effort to live by what you believe is the right way to go.
Going to college isn't all about grades. It's also is about meeting people and making connections(networking).
