GrumpyCatFace wrote:apeman wrote:In sum, I needed the hammer.
I would get it soon enough, in massive massive doses.
I know what you mean. The real world does NOT pull any punches. If you're not prepared to buckle down, you just get run over and beat until you figure it out.
This dovetails into the school thread.
Life has gotten a lot easier. A hundred years ago, you wouldn't have needed to have life smack you around in your twenties. Your entire life leading up to your twenties was one ass kicking after another.
I know the sun isn't out yet, but if you want breakfast you're gonna have to go get it. Feed and water the chickens, pigs, horses, and cows, then you can eat. You wanna freeze to death this winter? Well, if not you'll be spending your cozy summer vacation felling and splitting fire wood, and it's all hand tools. Wanna go to town? Well, the rich guy in town has one of them fancy new cars, but you're gonna spend the next hour getting the horses hitched. Oh yeah, the horses. You ever picked up dog shit? Well, it's like that, but the dog is two thousand pounds and you're using a shovel.
In the winter, when the sun goes down at five, that's when you go to bed. Lamp oil and candles are too expensive to burn all night just to read. You're gonna lay down in bed, in silence, aching from the day's work, and know that it's all coming back around in the morning. You're gonna get up again and tend to all the animals, and then walk your ass all the way to school, and if you're smart you'll understand that school's your ticket.
Today, most people don't learn that until long after they should have.
