Post by Dean on Jun 19, 2012 16:40:01 GMT -5
Okay guys, this is some kind of forum game. But also creative writing and because creative writing has a way better ring to it than ''forum Game'' I decided to post it here.
Recently I read about a speech Bill Gates allegedly gave in a highschool. In that speech he might or might not have given 11 life rules. They were as follows:
Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.
Rule No. 2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)
Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.
Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you feel about it.
Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.
Rule No. 6: It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer.
Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.
Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4.)
Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we're at it, very few jobs are interested in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)
Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them.
Now I was thinking, please think about it and make your own life rules, your own guidelines and post them here.
Mine:
1. If you can't use an ATM don't waste 30 minutes of the next person in line's life by trying.
2. Lazy people always win.
3. If you can make money by doing as little as possible please do.
4. Don't have the notion that you want to breathe your dying breath and think: Atleast I am leaving something behind. You're not. Dead is dead.
5. If someone cries don't come to me for grief councelling. 90% of the time I don't magically know what the cause is, the other 10% I probably won't care.
6. If there are three free bathroom stalls you NEVER take the middle one.
7. When a person of the same age comes up to you and makes the remark: Remember the time when..... You are in my opinion allowed to assault them. Ofcourse you remember, you are probably smarter than him/her
8. People who can't do math should not be allowed to teach children. I don't know about your countries but in mine this is an actual topic of interest.
9. When a mistake is made by someone else you can bet everything on the fact that I don't care how it happened and even care less about fixing said mistake.
10. When you see a vegan. (in before: you can't see if someone is vegan. Yes you can and even if you can't they will tell you everything about it) You are always allowed to point out that we are meant to eat meat. If they reply by saying that they don't eat it because it makes you fat, please ask them to defend that stament as carnivores are thin and herbivores are always fat.
11. Don't ever call me before 12 am, I will mock you.
Recently I read about a speech Bill Gates allegedly gave in a highschool. In that speech he might or might not have given 11 life rules. They were as follows:
Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.
Rule No. 2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)
Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.
Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you feel about it.
Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.
Rule No. 6: It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer.
Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.
Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4.)
Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we're at it, very few jobs are interested in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)
Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them.
Now I was thinking, please think about it and make your own life rules, your own guidelines and post them here.
Mine:
1. If you can't use an ATM don't waste 30 minutes of the next person in line's life by trying.
2. Lazy people always win.
3. If you can make money by doing as little as possible please do.
4. Don't have the notion that you want to breathe your dying breath and think: Atleast I am leaving something behind. You're not. Dead is dead.
5. If someone cries don't come to me for grief councelling. 90% of the time I don't magically know what the cause is, the other 10% I probably won't care.
6. If there are three free bathroom stalls you NEVER take the middle one.
7. When a person of the same age comes up to you and makes the remark: Remember the time when..... You are in my opinion allowed to assault them. Ofcourse you remember, you are probably smarter than him/her
8. People who can't do math should not be allowed to teach children. I don't know about your countries but in mine this is an actual topic of interest.
9. When a mistake is made by someone else you can bet everything on the fact that I don't care how it happened and even care less about fixing said mistake.
10. When you see a vegan. (in before: you can't see if someone is vegan. Yes you can and even if you can't they will tell you everything about it) You are always allowed to point out that we are meant to eat meat. If they reply by saying that they don't eat it because it makes you fat, please ask them to defend that stament as carnivores are thin and herbivores are always fat.
11. Don't ever call me before 12 am, I will mock you.
