young-adults

Don't take on more student loans than your future-self can handle.

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.

An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread.But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don__ want to eat dull wholesome food.You want something a little more colourful, exciting, tastier, meatier and juicier.

You don__ need to provide your parents with a __uccess story_ to share at gatherings.

People have a much greater chance of finding something they__l enjoy doing and making those greatest contributions when they trust themselves and are free to make their own life choices (are not marionettes in the hands of their parents).

The time to build your future is in your teenage years and your 20s, but equally, in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.

It__ a mistake to believe that they (parents) are responsible for their children__ best future. This responsibility is on their children, and that__ the message they should be conveying to their children on a daily basis.

We grow up in a belief system according to which children should always make their parents proud and happy (instead of making themselves proud and happy) - and that__ unfortunately the belief system in most cultures.

An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents_ dreams/ do everything in order to make their parents happy/ provide their parents with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves - because they owe it to them for all those years in which their parents took care of them - is utterly selfish.

Parents were good to us, gave us a lot, took care for us when we couldn__ have taken care for ourselves, wanted the best for us, continue to care about us and our future, but none of it is good enough a reason to fulfil their dreams/ do everything in order to make them happy/ provide them with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves.

None of us has an obligation to accept the definitions of __espect_ and __ratitude_ our parents espoused, especially when those definitions can be used to guilt-trip us, or when they are being used for the purpose of forcing us to do certain things (as an extortion mechanism).