<p>^^^ I’m calling B.S. You’re poor yet, you don’t believe in working hard and coming out of poverty. You instead want to leach off those that do try via welfare. I was in your situation as well and, i worked hard and my dad worked and he got us out of that bad situation. That struggle through the gritty and the gravel is what laid the foundation to my academic success but, be an idiot. leach off of society and keep thinking that academics don’t matter, in the end we’ll see who’s right. </p>
<p>I hope you have fun with those welfare checks.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to end the OP’s mystical, romantic view of life, but money is pretty damn nice to have. Ask anyone who had a job and became unemployed; it sucks. Money isn’t some trivial piece of paper people work their whole life to attain for no reason. Money can translate to anything you want. Money=freedom. Of course, in excess, it can turn you into an *******. That’s true with just about anything. Bottom line: try hard in school and live life.</p>
<p>^^^ @Daxlo: Way to be hateful, my friend! I think what the OP was trying to say was… We can still have a good and successful career, even if we aren’t the smartest person. Where did you get welfare from in this argument?</p>
<p>^^ @WickedKid: Yes! Money is stinkin’ nice to have, but what is your reason to have money? Money is a means; what is your desired end?</p>
He got it from the part where OP said that it doesn’t matter what the hell we do because government programs will fix everything yay milkshakes for everyone via Obama.
Thanks, government!</p>
<p>Are you really gonna call me a lazy bum? Do you really think I don’t work hard?
I am salutatorian w/ 2200 and a whole lotta other ****. So i don’t have a clue as to what you are talking about.
But anyway! Peace!</p>
<p>“The point im trying to make is that no matter how many times we screw up, it’s okay because the system under the U.S. is created so as to give everyone opportunities, chances to fix those mistakes.”</p>
<p>Isn’t that called freedom? The US system of government is to insure life, liberty (AKA freedom), and the pursuit of happiness.</p>
<p>Yup, I was. And no, he said “the system.” He could’ve just said freedom, but he was clearly referring to government programs.
And claiming that government ensures freedom is laughable at best. Liberty and freedom are not synonyms.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever explicitly said this. If you got this implication from my post, that was not my intended meaning. Sorry about the misunderstanding…and by programs, I AM NOT REFERRING TO THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS…I didn’t even think the understanding could have gone as far as this…simply ridicuolous.</p>
<p>" it’s fine because everyone has that one opportunity to do well in college. And if you do decently well in college while still living in the moments, then chances are that you will get a decently paying job. The point im trying to make is that no matter how many times we screw up, it’s okay because the system under the U.S. is created so as to give everyone opportunities, chances to fix those mistakes."</p>
<p>Should i spell this out for you? Didn’t you learn anything in English? Can’t you read between the lines? He basically said you shouldn’t work too hard because even if you screw up, you have big brother to pick you back up.</p>
<p>No, i’m not a hypocrite. You obviously don’t know the meaning of the word.</p>
<p>WHAT? That does not mean to not work hard. *** </p>
<p>Let me spell this out for YOU.</p>
<p>I said that “no matter how many times we screw up”, we get the “chances to fix those mistakes”, assuming that people take those chances, that those chances are worth the effort because essentially they’re helping us to “fix our mistakes”. Where in this interpretation did you get that people SHOULDN’T WORK HARD!!!</p>
<p>I am SAYING THAT IF YOU WORK HARD ENOUGH BUT STILL SCREW UP, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE UP THOSE MISTAKES WITH PLENTY OTHER OPPORTUNITIES…holy crap…</p>
<p>I am saying that if you mess up high school, it’s not the end-all-be-all. If you mess up college, it’s still not the end-all-be-all. So just learn to relax and enjoy life. This does not mean that because I said the former, you should not WORK HARD.</p>
<p>Have you not heard the phrase, “If at first you don’t suceed, try try again.”</p>
<p>He said nothing about welfare. His point is to work hard, and, even though you might hit a rough patch, you can always try again because we have the freedom to do so.</p>
<p>Why do you keep using liberty as a synonym for freedom, it’s not.
And he could have just said freedom-- it would have been much more concise and easy to understand. But he did not. His sentence went about in a way that makes it sound like government programs.</p>
<p>The fact that three people interpreted that sentence the same way says more than enough.</p>