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Originally Posted by AENeuman
I'm trying to understand your purpose in these recent posts. Are you giving your personal experience as a way for us to understand your opinion/ attitude? or are you using a personal antidote, as opposes to colorful data, to convince us the readers?
It is clear why you believe what you do, and for good, even admirable reasons. For my own understanding, I just have a hard time transferring your experience to other people and situations in any universal way.
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I don't know, mostly just giving my opinion based on my experiences and from experiences of those around me. A couple of things...
1. You are right, the way I "made it" is not universal, my parents set the standard for success and eventually I took it seriously. People are just different, our up-bringing's are different and we all have different goals that we choose to achieve and reach for each and every day. Some people work a second job at night (and I would like to help folks like that), some do homework at night (they are helping themselves), some drink alcohol and smoke drugs at night (Don't want to help folks like that). It's America, you can do as you please, but certainly not universal. And there is no universal Band-Aid to make everybody give a shit about their future.
2. On a lighter note, my individual "made it" story didn't begin when I got a USDA approved lunch. I ate bologna sandwiches and drank Kool-Aid most of my childhood.