My Opinions for Life

Once again I sit here thinking, I think a lot anymore. Back in high school I thought that I was a natural thinker, at least that is what I thought back then when I thought I knew a lot but really did not. Now years later I look back and almost laugh at myself an how "smart" I thought I was. I am not saying that I am stupid, just that I have come to realize more and more now and as I get older I learn more and more. I never truly realized when I was younger how much I did not know, of course this is what all those "grown ups" meant.

Of course many kids will not say anything like this, I am also not a kid anymore. At 25 years, I am still young but I am not a kid. Therefore I think the truth that is known by almost every grown up should be really put in words. We sometimes try to help the younger kids by giving advise, but in the end it usually does no good. The kid with the advice will not learn before, but only after the advice is no longer good. This is the way of life I fear, a cycle, and I realize that no matter what I put into words here if a kid reads this will never truly believe all or any of this, but I must try. Just like the rest of the grown ups, even though this may be fruitless we try, try to save you from disappointment and pain, but it fails a great amount of the time.

Money, the one thing that a large percentage of American do not teach their children about. I was one of the unlucky children, unluckier than some, my parents were not financially burdened, no one in my family has ever had a true money problem. this in its own way was more of a problem then a family who does have money burdens and has children raised within these burdens every day. I think that some of you reading this may agree, some may not, either way I am biased because its my life. I went into the real world, never knowing as much as I should have about money and financial issues. I guess in reality no one ever goes into life knowing everything they should about finances and money. I learned the hard way, I also learned the hard way to disappoint my parents, but draining what finances I had available and family help I got my credit card problem under control, this was my luck in life. Almost no one else on Earth has the experience of having a background of money or finances form parents and grandparents to dig you out of that hole of "credit" once you get there, in this respect I m truly grateful and lucky. Then again I also grew up in a family that owned its own business, so imagine the lifestyle I grew up in, I never saw the work, I never thought that there was much to it. Now I know there is , there is a great amount of work put into the smallest amounts of money. Every bit of money has to be fought for, claimed, and earned. This is the real world with money, and everyone must learn how to survive in it.

Now the thing that no one likes to talk about or mention, the loss of things. Not physical, but mental, everyone has disappointments in life especially when it comes to girlfriends, boyfriends, ego, self appreciation, or any mental factor. You will experience things that make you feel like crap about yourself, you will lose people that you think will ruin your life. Unfortunately there is no great answer for this. All I can really offer is the fact that it will happen and you must at that time of loss steel your insides away and keep on living and running, people lose jobs and friends over these issues, do not let this happen to you. One event like this effected me to the point of losing a job, some friends, and financial problems. I was not ready not steeled away against such an event, and I paid for it. You may be wondering what exactly these kind of event are, but in the end you will really know then only when they happen, and just as soon as you think that an event was the worst and there is nothing worse and that must have been a moment, something else will happen that makes the last even look like a cake walk. These are the event that shape the person and their experiences, the saying of letting the moment shape you or you shaping the moment makes the difference does certainly define these events. Letting the moment shape you will leave you "damaged" while you shaping the moment may make you angry or lose something or someone, but by you shaping the moment and not someone else you have grown, and ts better to grown and lose than to lose and not grow.

Now comes the killer, the king of all learned things. This has been said over over, and Socrates was one of the first people to fully recognize its importance. This is th e fact that you will never understand or know everything, and there will be a very large amount of stuff you will never know. The greatest knowledge in the world or possibly the universe is the knowledge that you do not know some things. By simple knowing that at times you will have to ask questions or ask for help is the number one thing that will make you wise. Jobs will come and go, and so will people the only person you can truly rely on is yourself a lot of the time. Knowledge is something that no one can ever take away from you, and being able to use it is only a quarter of the battle, and does not even have anything to do with the war of life.