I guess they won’t listen to old geezers, but you don’t rein in your dreams, rather you change how you go about pursuing them. Events are dynamic, the future unknown (except that it will look a lot like the past).
Good responses. The common theme here is that there are no guarantees, ever, and if you think you are going to have the house, family, fancy cars, cable tv, multiple cell phones and vacations in France by age 26 like poor little Alicia, then you have another thing coming.
Every time I think of how great and comfortable my life is, I think of Poland in 1939. When you look at some of the film shot of that era, you see people dressed in suits walking down icy, snow-covered roads. They might have holes in their shoes, if they have any shoes. These were poor people. Many of those people were prosperous, and had possessions and money. They took it all for granted, in the same way that we all take it for granted. It’s human nature. But I’ll bet that as those people walked down that road, thinking of the house, china cabinet and personal belongings that they left behind, they understood that there are no guarantees. You’re not guaranteed a job… you’re not guaranteed good pay… and most of all… you are even guaranteed your life. It can end today in your car driving to the grocery store, by a bullet from a thug, or even a bullet from your own government.
There are no guarantees. But if you piss away those things you have by voting for people like Barack Obama and his like, there is one guarantee I think you can safely take from it: walking down that snowy icy road with no belongings.