sorry, but I don't think that's the way the world works. it is easy for someone who's lived a relatively safe life to say something like this, but if someone from a more disadvantaged backround (an inner city kid like me) decided to just "let things happen" then they would never better their condition. good things don't just happen to people, we must work for them. I have gone to college, I wouldn't have met my girlfriend, I wouldn't be able to be openly gay if I just let things happen. I'd probably be doing the same thing that my friends from highschool are doing - living off of welfare, or working a shitty minimum wage job, while living in a horrible neighborhood
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you've evidently misinterpreted what i said. i respect your opinions, but i think you should understand where i was coming from. i don't necessarily think this is the "way the world works" either. this excerpt is about MY realizing that being controlling is self-destructive. maybe you don't agree with that, but you are also claiming that we have quite different experiences... maybe you don't understand that i'm not applying this to life and the world in general, but to the way that i have dealt with things in the past. i can't even begin to explain to you the peace that i have come to after realizing that everything happens for a reason (which you may not believe, but i do), and that being controlling of many (not all) things/people is the wrong path. when i posted this piece of writing i didn't do so with the idea that working hard and making the right choices and efforts to get ahead, into college, or get a decent paying job gets you nowhere. that's not at all the statement being made. i agree that good things don't always "
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So thanks.
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