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The REAL WORLD!

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this one!
Here’s some advice Bill Gates recently gave at a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn at school.
He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure… in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it!
Rule 2: The World wont care about your self esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss!
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it OPPORTUNITY.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents fault, so don’t wine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain-forest from the parasites of your parents generation, try delousing the closet in you own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
If you agree, pass it on. If you can read this - thank a caregiver, parent or teacher! If you are reading this in English, thank a soldier!

dont give up!

…Sometimes we feel like we’re fine, we pursue our goals and all’s going fine. But then something happens and we feel like we’re hanging, just dangling, like we’re on the edge of a cliff and just can’t get back over the edge! We cry out and scream for help. We hear a voice. We’re saved! We take their hand and land back on safe ground. The relief, the joy, the thankfulness! And after thanking the one who saved us we dust ourselves off and head off in pursuit of that old goal or maybe even a new one. Even as you walk away the feeling of what is was like hanging over the edge is dimming. Fading. And as we walk off we hear the one who saved us calling out, asking us if we want them to, or if they could come with us and watch out for us, make sure we don’t get caught again. But we say, ‘I’ll be right’, and turn our back on them…until we find ourselves hanging, desperate and crying out again. God wants to walk with you, not only come along and get you out of the problems you get into. He loves you so much that He is reaching His hand out to you right now, whether you’re over the edge already or just walking along. Because in the end the whole cliffs going to crumble. Everyone, whether their walking or dangling over the edge is going to fall. And once you’ve fallen, it’s too late, you’re on your own, in a place called hell. In a place where there is no joy, no excitement, no love, only pain, sorrow and fear. Your only hope is that before the cliff crumbled, you had called out to God, Jesus Christ, and asked Him to forgive you for trying to do it on your own, and ask Him to take your hand, to lead you and to guide you. Then when the time comes, you will not fall, but instead He will lift you up to a place where you cannot fall, to a place called heaven. Where you can enjoy the rest of eternity, without pain, suffering, or sickness. Because Jesus died on the cross to take our punishment for sinning, turning our back on God and doing the things that we knew He didn’t want us to do. He died and then He rose again to show us that He had dealt with, completely finished with our punishment and all we have to do is cry out to Him. Have you? Or are you walking along in a time when everything seems fine, and don’t quite see the point right now? Why not give it a go, try Him, see if truly trusting Him in all you do makes a difference.

Do you like NICE Chocolate?

We have all heard the saying, "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get." But after buying some cheap chocolate that was on special, a brand i had never heard of and very close to it's used by date, i came to a new conclusion. "Life is like a box of chocolates, you get what you pay for!"

What will it cost to see your wildest dreams come true?
What will it cost if you never try?

Go on! Have a go - you never know what you can acchieve until you give it a go.

"ONE LIFE, ONE CHANCE, JUST DO IT!!!"

As she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same. However, that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard.
Mrs. Thompson had watched Teddy the year before and noticed that he did not play well with the other children, that his clothes were messy and that he constantly needed a bath. In addition, Teddy could be unpleasant. It got to the point where Mrs. Thompson would actually take delight in marking his papers with a broad red pen, making bold X's and then putting a big "F" at the top of his papers.
At the school where Mrs. Thompson taught, she was required to review each child's past records and she put Teddy's off until last. However, when she reviewed his file, she was in for a surprise.
Teddy's first grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is a bright child with a ready laugh. He does his work neatly and has good manners.... he is a joy to be around.."
His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, well liked by his classmates, but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle."
His third grade teacher wrote, "His mother's death has been hard on him. He tries to do his best, but his father doesn't show much interest and his home life will soon affect him if some steps aren't taken."
Teddy's fourth grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is withdrawn and doesn't show much interest in school. He doesn't have many friends and he sometimes sleeps in class."
By now, Mrs. Thompson realized the problem and she was ashamed of herself. She felt even worse when her students brought her Christmas presents, wrapped in beautiful ribbons and bright paper, except for Teddy's.
His present was clumsily wrapped in the heavy, brown paper that he got from a grocery bag. Mrs. Thompson took pains to open it in the middle of the other presents. Some of the children started to laugh when she found a rhinestone bracelet with some of the stones missing, and a bottle that was one-quarter full of perfume.. But she stifled the children's laughter when she exclaimed how pretty the bracelet was, putting it on, and dabbing some of the perfume on her wrist. Teddy Stoddard stayed after school that day just long enough to say, "Mrs. Thompson, today you smelled just like my Mom used to." After the children left, she cried for at least an hour.
On that very day, she quit teaching reading, writing and arithmetic. Instead, she began to teach children. Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. As she worked with him, his mind seemed to come alive.
The more she encouraged him, the faster he responded. By the end of the year, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class and, despite her lie that she would love all the children the same, Teddy became one of her "teacher's pets."
A year later, she found a note under her door, from Teddy, telling her that she was still the best teacher he ever had in his whole life.
Six years went by before she got another note from Teddy. He then wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in life.
Four years after that, she got another letter, saying that while things had been tough at times, he'd stayed in school, had stuck with it, and would soon graduate from college with the highest of honours. He assured Mrs. Thompson that she was still the best and favourite teacher he had ever had in his whole life.
Then four more years passed and yet another letter came. This time he explained that after he got his bachelor's degree, he decided to go a little further. The letter explained that she was still the best and favourite teacher he ever had But now his name was a little longer.... The letter was signed, Theodore F. Stoddard, MD.
The story does not end there. You see, there was yet another letter that Spring. Teddy said he had met this girl and was going to be married.
He explained that his father had died a couple of years ago and he was wondering if Mrs. Thompson might agree to sit at the wedding in the place that was usually reserved for the mother of the groom.
Of course, Mrs. Thompson did. And guess what? She wore that bracelet, the one with several rhinestones missing. Moreover, she made sure she was wearing the perfume that Teddy remembered his mother wearing on their last Christmas together. They hugged each other, and Dr. Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompson's ear, "Thank you Mrs. Thompson for believing in me. Thank you so much for making me feel important and showing me that I could make a difference."
Mrs. Thompson, with tears in her eyes, whispered back. She said, "Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didn't know how to teach until I met you! ."
(For those of you who don't know, Teddy Stoddard is the Dr. at Iowa Methodist in Des Moines that has the Stoddard Cancer Wing.)
Warm someone's heart today. . . pass this along.
I love this story so very much, I cry every time I read it. Just try to make a difference in someone's life today? tomorrow? just "do it".

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