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 Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:14 pm
Of course it might seem different to you guys cause some are working even while while they are in school so they see the reality on city life and it also does not mean that people who are still in school can't see reality.
I've always been thinking what would I be like when I'm working. Have you ever thought of that too? I always wish that I could go to work sooner so I don't have to go to college anymore but now seeing the reality that only some college graduates have jobs it made me realized that I wasn't prepared.
Always going to school and having fun is what I've always been doing, but after my father passed away it showed me the face of the real world I'm living in. My mother working hard for our family and expects great things from me. Like after I graduated she will retire and I'm the one who will pay for my younger brother's tuition fee. It made me realized that all I've been doing in high school and college feels like will not help me in the real word. I feel like I'm not old enough or mature enough to stand up for myself.
Have you ever feel or experience the same?
Did you ever picture yourself working and living in the real world?
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:18 pm
At the moment, I'm terrified of the real world. But, I can make it. And yeah, I can picture myself working and having a family. It will be hard, but hey it's life.
I'm sorry that your father has passed away.
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:24 pm
aynud At the moment, I'm terrified of the real world. But, I can make it. And yeah, I can picture myself working and having a family. It will be hard, but hey it's life. I'm sorry that your father has passed away.
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:26 pm
reality starts the say you see the light and ends when you see it the second time!
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:33 pm
I've never experienced a passing away of a loved one so close like yours (a father) to you. But I'm sure it does make you look at the world a little differently. You see the end of the tunnel's light a little differently, I'm sure.
And yes, it looks a little differently to me too. But truthfully, I'm excited and truly can't wait lol, like any common teen but I have good reasons I think. I'm going to visit family, pool, getting liciense and all that jazz. It should be a good summer time. Plus I get more time with friends. I hope your summer is just as good though and reality sets in a little smoothly. ♥
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:36 pm
Inubelle~ aynud At the moment, I'm terrified of the real world. But, I can make it. And yeah, I can picture myself working and having a family. It will be hard, but hey it's life. I'm sorry that your father has passed away. Must have been hard on you. You have much to be thankful for. Most single parents sometimes can't do that.
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:37 pm
I just graduated, and I've JUST realized that I should've saved all my money and such. Most everything I've spent my money on... I've forgotten about.
And it feels like my life is starting over. Everything is new, and I'm beginning to see who my true friends are, as well as how I'm going to live my life.
I'm going to college, then seminary school, then pastorhood. It'll be a hard life, of course, since I'm living mostly on whatever funds are donated.
And, of course, my family's poor already. Of course.
But I love them.
But still.
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:38 pm
I have thought of reality a lot... I think of how I will be in my twenties and I always imagine every occupation I am interested in and how it would be.
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:44 pm
Shoot by the time I'm finished with my 3+ years of college, I'm gonna be rich I already desided that. And yes, I'll probably start college as a sophmore. That dears is called hard work.
Quick question. How old are you and how sheltered are you? I have hated the world since I was nine which was seven years ago. If you have just realized that the world is a nasty place...wow. I'd have to say by 12/13 you should have relized this. I mean there is always the news.
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:50 pm
Well, I myself am still in High School right now, and I know I'm not prepared for the 'real world.' However, I am preparing. I'm pretty sure what field of work I'm going into, because it's what I'm good at so far and I love it. I see my parents, and it makes me push myself harder. They work everyday, exhausting hours for less pay than they deserve. Seeing them makes me think, and it makes me prepare. I've got a savings account in the works, which will be used for college tuition and eventually retirement. It's just a start, but it's something.
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 8:19 pm
Ouch.
I'm not even technically in high school yet (next year! xD) so I'm still blissfully ignorant of the real world.
Sort of.
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 6:48 am
I'm in my first year at university, and I guess reality is starting to creep up. I guess I'm kind of sheltered, I'd never been away from home for longer than 3/4 days before I left for here, and was on my own and a bit confused when it started out. As for work, though... a lot of my uni friends work during the term (I'm the youngest being straight from school), so I suppose that they know more about reality than I do. Once real responsibilities set in, I guess things will change, but everyone has to face this at some point and millions of people cope with it every day.
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 7:20 am
well im 27 and wish i was back in school crying i was in school wishing to get out of it and now i want back, dont waste your time at school/ college, you will look back in years to come and say i wish i was back in school biggrin
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 7:23 am
Im 16 and i'm an intern at a hospital.
Also i have scholarships and what-not, so ive never fully 1oo% faced reality.
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:44 pm
I'm still in high school but by the time I was in fifth grade it was already normal to accept life as hard and nasty. I grew originally in my nice little barrio/ghetto in Queens and have only had a mother to raise me, and God bless her she has done miracles in the past for me and my brother. Life hit me young say around six or seven, I had to learn self reliance at a young age. I have never had an allowance, never got money for good grades, and have had to earn every penny. Money is never a problem for me though, despite the hard work I know I'll get it no matter what. Making money I've learned is psychological just as success is. In New York you have to either adapt or not, eat or be eaten, accept the facts or live in a delusional world. Now, I'm about one of the last few from the neighborhood that is still free and non incarcerated, deceased, or on an addiction, from a young age you had to accept that you may not see your friends the next morning, you may not see the next morning and even after I moved from New York I took that mentality of survival with me everywhere I've gone. Life's harsh realities are nothing that no person cannot conquer, all I'm worried for is my mother's own future. Up until now I still don't have a single dime despite the money I make, because I give it all to my mother, I'm hoping God or the higher being that exists gives me something to work with to keep being there for my mom and eventually provide for myself when I move out and into the real world. I can make the money now all I have to worry about is the education aspects.
The realities of life aren't hard to accept, its what it is; life. It will come, the transition will be gradual as you get older and then you'll be ready. I just thank God everyday for my mom. Without her I don't think I would be where I am today as a person despite me being poor I consider myself fortunate for the skills that my mom forced me to learn from a young age. Be it hustling with the gangsters, to writing political essays for paying customers at school. I know I'll always make money somehow, and that is the most hard aspect of life, is economic livelihood.
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