DEFY "Battered down dreams and ambitions"

"I missed the boat..."

"I wish I did this..."

"I have come to accept my circumstances..."

SO many people in their 50s and 60s that I speak to have said something along those lines. And SO many of these people once had amazing FIRE, PASSION and AMBITION in their mid 20s, 30s... Just like me at the moment at 25 years old. Idealism? Naivety?

The common theme is that they are being hammered down by the weight of society. NOT reality. Reality is neutral. PERCEPTION and subsequent peoples' accordance is NOT neutral. People are trend followers, people listen to emotions, people give in to weaknesses, people take shortcuts. I'm not religious, but we are all sinners.

I just got off a call with a prominent educator at a school and was shocked by the reality of the school environment. POLITICS, maintaining face, caricatures... From tutoring many kids, so many kids have bad things to say about their teachers... And why? The teachers are bent over by the system, by the culture, by the environment. And they are meant to shape the Kings of the future generation... the KIDS of today. How

Hindsight is difficult and often, and these 50 or 60 years old I speak too would mostly agree... decisions are often a 50/50 split. You just have to make a decision that is 1% better than the other. And as Robert Frost says, we will ALWAYS inherently regret or reconsider or 'what if' the other choice in hindsight. Do we learn to accept? I'm not sure. I think we learn to tell ourself a lie to sleep at night. Life is cruel. It truly can be the survival of the fittest.

Again, this just emphasises more... to be kinder. To be curious. What matters most at the school if I had to put one thing is... the education of the students. What matters most? Discard the BS. Pick your battles, your fuel tank is limited and EVERY road has its toll.