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life isn’t fair
Rumor has it that Bill Gates delivered a speech to a high school class about the things they did not and will not learn in school. He talked about how feel-good, politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept has set them up for failure in the real world.
rule 1: life is not fair ~ get used to it.
rule 2: the world won’t care about our self-esteem; the world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
rule 3: you will NOT make $60,000/year right out of high school; you won’t be vice president with a company car until you earn both.
rule 4: if you think your teachers are tough, wait until you have 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; 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 parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your own room first.
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 chances as you need to get the right answers; 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 lie; 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.
Now, I don’t know if Bill Gates really said all of this, but if he did, love him or hate him, I say kudos! And if Bill isn’t the originator of these “rules,” then to whoever did originally come up with them, I say, “Amen, brother (or sister)!”
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