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“Verity - the quality or state of being true or real; Balderdash –
nonsense.”
Miriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Verities & Balderdash
Life is Not Fair
Edited by Bob Robinson
This has often been attributed to Bill Gates. I have not verified that,
but I’ve seen it in a few college classrooms. Bill Gates could have
said it; Steve Jobs could have said it as just about any other
self-made millionaire could have said it. It is intended for
students... I say it is something that we ALL need to understand.
If you want to succeed in life, don’t look to government or charity.
Make up your minds that there’s a lot of hard work involved and, as
they say in an insurance commercial on TV, “roll up your sleeves, pour
another cup of coffee and get to work. There are going to some long
nights ahead.”
The 11 rules that should be in everyone’s vocabulary...
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.
As much as I hate to say it, if this is an eye-opener to some of our
young people, they may have gotten it honestly. These rules should have
been touted to MY generation in the 1960s and 70s. We spawned the
parents of this generation and they spawned today’s.
As a baby-boomer, I’m not proud of that accomplishment.
If you want to see some of the kids of don’t need to be reminded of
these rules, check out our Senior Scribes Scholarship Fund recipients…
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