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shateredsoul:
lol, well I do agree with you that I'm whining. But, would also add that even if being a student is not as stressful as "the real world", it is stressful nonetheless. It may be relative.. maybe grad school is the most stress I have experience so it does seem overwhelming. When I start working I'm sure i'll look back to these days and realize how good I had it.
t3design:
One of the fantastic things about life is that there is a path that one must follow to reach something. Crawling prepares one for walking, walking for running, and so on.
School is "real life" for those who are in school. I did that 20+ years ago and it seemed pretty real at the time. I would not have been able to handle what I do now at that point in my life, but that time in life was part of what prepared me to be able to do what I do now.
Telling anyone that they don't know what stress is, or hard work, or long hours or whatever, is as silly as telling your children "just wait until you are a parent, then you'll understand." OF COURSE THEY'LL UNDERSTAND. They understand being a kid now, and they will understand the next part of life when it is time for that part.
The people I really feel for are those who through no choice of their own (or even if they did make a poor decision) find themselves thrown far down the path without the benefit of all the time and experience that should have come before. Like teenage mothers, orphans, children and young people fighting terminal illnesses, etc. Those people can teach us a lot about what someone can do if they have to.
From what I can surmise from the posts here, we all are doing what we chose to do and should be over-joyed that we have choices and opportunity.
shateredsoul:
nicely put
shmokes:
I disagree to a large extent. I think many many people are chronically focused on the future. They are stressed out and utterly devoted in high school because for now they need to think about college. And in college they miss out on all the immense opportunities to have the greatest time of their lives because they must stay totally focused because they need to be in the best position possible to get a job after school. And once they get the job they've got their foot in the door, but the ladder is right there and there's only one way to climb it and that is through devotion and discipline.
Of course everyone is living in real life for them, but it is too easy to focus all your energy on the future (when you will finally have time to be happy) and discount the importance of the now. But future prospects will ALWAYS be better. There will ALWAYS be something to look forward to. Degrees, promotions, kids getting scholarships, etc. If you can't carpe diem and all that rot right now, it's unlikely you'll be able to in the future. And if you ever do learn how, you will look back and kick yourself for not doing it earlier.
People in college are living in real life, but most of them will look back on it years down the road and think, "God I had it easy back then, and for the most part I wasted it. What I wouldn't give to go back and make the most of it."
saint:
My undergraduate degree was one of the best 9 year periods of my life :)
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