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When I was a teenager at high school I used to compare everyone else to myself a lot (I think everyone does since it’s part of building your identity) I remember thinking “ok there’s a future doctor, and there’s a great manager of some sort” But I never really grokked that everyone from those classes is now in society somewhere. Remember that idiot sitting there chewing the wood on his desk? He probably has a job now…
I managed to spend one night in custody in a prison instead of the police department. The furniture had an uncanny resemblance to the furniture in the run-down public school I went to. And the drawing on the walls unmistakably resembled the writing on the public school toilets, too. And it occurred to me. It's the same people. And their hand writing and stick men had not improved.
Pakistani Govt shares game footage as real military action
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Arrested development is extremely common among people who wind up in prison.
Re: Pakistani Govt shares game footage as real military action
#12The older I get, the more apparent it becomes that there are rarely ever “adults in the room”, and it’s a kind of miracle that anything works at all. Seeing things like this really drives that home. A lot of people are not really sure what’s going on. Myself included, to be sure.
When I was a teenager at high school I used to compare everyone else to myself a lot (I think everyone does since it’s part of building your identity) I remember thinking “ok there’s a future doctor, and there’s a great manager of some sort” But I never really grokked that everyone from those classes is now in society somewhere. Remember that idiot sitting there chewing the wood on his desk? He probably has a job now…
And then there is the other side. That guy with unbelievably high potential who completely fumbles his life and just not able to get his act together... (Even worse when it happens to be you)