Quote Originally Posted by j_h_smith View Post
You mistaken bitterness for reality. I'm just saying being bored with school and not getting any from an ex-girlfriend is not a reason to run away off into the sunset.



No but it just shows you how much you've got to look forward to. These issues that I quoted are what we all experience as adults. These aren't exceptions, these are the rules. You'll learn one day that older people speak from experience and not just to be heard.



This just shows you how much experience you have in life. There were no insinuations, these are hard cold facts. Trust me, you will experience some if not most of these situations before your life is over.

Sure, you can hug the guy and tell him that everything will be okay. But it probalby won't. If he hates school and cannot stand to be there, then he needs to quit. If his desire to become a zoologist is greater, then that desire will out weight his dislike for school.

Women come and go. He'll fall in love another dozen times and probably fall into lust even more than that. He said it himself, she doesn't want anything to do with him. So why should he continue to dwell on someone that is just going to break his heart, if not his will.

I'm done typing now, I've to go take my medicine and take a nap.
Jim Smith
I can tell were not going to agree on this, now or probably 50 years from now (Not literally, figuratively), so I'll refrain from doing battle in someone elses thread.

I'd like to say two things not because I care for a response, but hopefully you can think about them with an open mind.

One, you made a lot of assumptions about me.

Two, "old people" speak, not with experience, but based on their experiences that are unique to them and created at times with unique circumstances. If you spend your time with people who all live life exactly like you do, you can say with experience, but a millionaire, a middle-class family and a lesbian couple all have different experiences with the same life events. Getting married, having kids and buying a house would be interpreted VERY differently by each of those groups. An "adult" with "life experience" in the U.S. can go live in Afghanistan and find that probably a lot of their "experience" doesn't do them any good.

The world is a big place and there is no "right" way to live in it.