Life Lessons After 18 Years (686 hits)
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Submitted by Sarah Prejean <derivablezero.at.gmail.com> (View user info) at 2005-04-09 15:54:08 EDT
Riding in a convertible with the top down in 80 degree weather in the middle of February could possibly be the best feeling ever.
You cannot truly experience permanent love until you are a whole person. If you are only half-way developed, and you give someone part of that, the most you are left with is being one-eighth of a person. It's a very empty feeling.
Mapless road-trips before you have moved out of your parents' house will teach you a lot about self-reliance and how much your mother really can swear.
Religion and faith are two completely unrelated things. You do not need an orginization to reach God. You do, however, need other people, just as imperfect as you are, to hold you accountable for your selfishness.
The first day of the rest of your life always happens in high school, no matter what anyone ever tells you. Everything is over then, and it always will be. You will never go to your senior prom again, you will more than likely forget all of the names of the people you ate lunch with every day, and life as you know it will be over. You will be thrown headfirst into the semi-real-world and eventually you will learn to deal with it. Then you will love it.
Nothing is permanent. The best thing that you can do for yourself is to live in the now: this means in relationships, jobs, school, everything... There is never one path for any one person.
The happiest people are those who have grown completely and then fallen in love. You must be your own before you can be another's. Two half people make one half person once they have given each other part of themselves. And in the end, they remain empty shells.
You cannot swim upstream while holding hands.
The best treatment for sunburn is vinegar on a washrag applied to the affected area.
While logical thinking may balance the checkbook, illogical thinking may save your life.
Two people can overcome anything thrown at them. They will always crumble, though, when they are faced with the differences between each other.
Do me a favor. Tell me things you have learned, if you choose to review this.
Quote of the Day: "Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." --Albert Einstein
User Reviews
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-04-11 11:44:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
First of all...I'm in grad school you little sophmore bitch. When you're halfay done with your masters and maintain a 4.0 GPA while working two full time jobs, plus an internsip, come talk to me about accomplishments.
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BULLSHIT
MY BULLSHIT DETECTOR IS GOING OFF!
Submitted by MrWillard (user info) at 2005-04-10 08:15:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
ubmitted by DerivableZero (user info) at 2005-04-09 18:33:45 (#)
Ranking: -2
The only advice I can give is grow up, based upon the advice that you have given me and what I read here.
As far as your checklist goes:
I've been to college. I currently am a double-degreeing major in psychology and english and I have four semesters left. Probably more than you'll accomplish making pornos and getting drunk in Atlanta bars.
I've been fucked. I loved it.
I've done drugs. They hurt the way that I think, and I don't like it.
I however, have not made a porno. So, congratulations.
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First of all...I'm in grad school you little sophmore bitch. When you're halfay done with your masters and maintain a 4.0 GPA while working two full time jobs, plus an internsip, come talk to me about accomplishments. Furthermore, good luck with that psych degree...change majors now while you still can. Despite what your school tells you, there are no jobs with a BS degree. You might be okay with the english, but only if you want to teach, write, or do journalism. Go into busniess, or if you want to study people, go into communications
Secondly, despite "all you have learned" you must have issues if you take what someone says on an internet site so personally. I didn't realize it meant that much to you, so here's your +2. Most of what people write here, wheither it be in a review, or in a post, is mostly bullshit. Myself included. Keep that in mind when you want to retaliate with -2s on someone else's post.
Third, which I believe was the point most of your reviewers were trying to make, is that no matter how much of a deep understanding you THINK you have of life at 18 years old, this reality will change for you so many times over the next five years of your life. Hell, not even five years, probably two or three tops.
The best advise I have, is to relax and let things ride. If you over think things, you'll become fucked up in the head. Of course, that's job security for me.
Oh, and to never post again.
Submitted by CanucksFan (user info) at 2005-04-09 19:02:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2005-04-09 18:39:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I don't think this was horribly written, so I'll tell you what I know:
Every birthday since I was 16 has been shocking. I look back at what I've learned in a year. The traumas I've faced, the life experiences I've had, etc. Every year is different and every year is chock full of life's makeup.
So, what I say to everyone who is commenting on your age is that you do learn a lot in 18 years. Enough to know joy, pain, pleasure, disgust and indifference.
What I say to you is that I've been out of school for 6 years and I feel like an old lady. I know a lifetime more than I did when I was your age (at least it feels like it looking back), but I realize if I learn that much more every 6 years, that explains where "old and wise" came from.
And you do NOT have to grow up on the streets to experience things like drugs, teen pregnancy, 9/11, the loss of a loved one, a natural disaster, or heartbreak.
Submitted by MrWillard (user info) at 2005-04-09 18:24:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Go to college
Do drugs
Get fucked
Come back and tell me your observations.
Thanks for playing.
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-04-09 18:23:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
you haven't learned life lessons sweetheart you have learned about being a kid. come back in 10 years.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2005-04-09 18:22:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Would've been a zero, but I think you're catching some unnecessary flak for this one.
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2005-04-09 18:13:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
you're 18. Unless you grew up on the street (which you obviously didn't) you don't have any "life lessons" to share. Come back when you're a big girl.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-04-09 17:38:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Check back when your not still a kid and see if you hold the same philosophy
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-04-09 16:41:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by BillsSBChamps (user info) at 2005-04-09 15:58:15 (#)
Ranking: -2
Don't post twice in one day, ever. Not only does it knock the first one off the front page but it forces all of us Uber fags to -2 instantly.
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That and you are making this look like you stole it from somewhere else.
Submitted by Lucky (user info) at 2005-04-09 16:28:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-04-09 16:04:57 (#)
Ranking: 1
Kinda of emo, but you have a cunt, and I like cunt.
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ha ha +2 for that.
Submitted by senor_tusky (user info) at 2005-04-09 16:18:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
I Believe...
Submitted by Maddog (user info) at 2005-04-09 16:09:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Some good observations. It made me think back on events in my own life
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-04-09 16:04:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Kinda of emo, but you have a cunt, and I like cunt.
Submitted by BillsSBChamps (user info) at 2005-04-09 15:58:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Don't post twice in one day, ever. Not only does it knock the first one off the front page but it forces all of us Uber fags to -2 instantly.