1:Life is not fair - get used to
it.
2:The world won't care about your
self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
3:You will NOT make 40 thousand
dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
4:If you think your teacher is
tough, wait till you get a boss. He or she doesn't have tenure.
5:Flipping burgers is not beneath
your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
6:If you mess up, it's not your
parents' fault so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
7:Before you were born, your parents
weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk
about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the
closet in your own room.
8:Your school may have done away
with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many
times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. 9. Life is
not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself -
do that on your own time.
9:Television is NOT real life.
In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.