Ten on Tuesday
Ten Things I'd Tell a High School Graduate
- Congratulations! Well done!
- Go to college. If your parents can't pay for it, get a scholarship, work by day and go to night school, make it work somehow. You'll be far happier and richer for it, and not just financially, although hard coin is not to be sneezed at.
- Pick a hands-on career, be it doctor, plumber, or chef. Pick something that people always need and that can't be outsourced.
- Always learn. Knowledge will walk in and sit down if you leave the door open.
- Always question. Falsehood will get up and walk out if you make it uncomfortable.
- Play to your strength. Do what you love. But also...
- Practice doing hard things. It's a skill you'll always need, and it'll take you a long way. Anything you love will come with hard things to do.
- Stop and smell the flowers.
- To thine own self be true.
- Don't drink with anyone you don't know well.
If I'm very lucky, when I tell her she won't roll her eyes at me and say "Mom, I know," even if she really does.
posted by Lucia at
10:17 PM
3 Comments:
Great advice and some of it quite similar to mine.
By
Carole Knits, at 5:24 AM
EXCELLENT. And well phrased. Those are some very important life lessons.
By
Laurie, at 6:33 AM
How about,1. clean up your own messes. 2. Keep taking your birthcontrol pills AND always use a condom! 3. what goes around, comes around.
Not that a high school graduate will listen. They have the attention span of a gnat in heat and they already know everything anyhow.
By
roxie, at 9:17 AM
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