Something a bit more profound today that I ran across in my files...
Not really humor, but then again it depends on how you look at it. :-)

Enjoy!


"Rules Not Learned" by Charles Sykes, author of "Dumbing Down Our Kids,"

1. Life is not fair. Get used to it.

2. The world won't care about your self-esteem as much as your school
does. The world will expect you to accomplish something
before you feel good about yourself.

3. You will NOT make $40,000 a year right out of high school. You
won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

4. If you think your teacher is rough, wait till you get a boss. He
doesn't have tenure.

5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had
a different word for burger-flipping. They called it "opportunity."

6. If you screw up, it's not your parents fault. So don't whine about
your mistakes; learn from them.

7. Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are
now. They got that way paying YOUR bills, cleaning YOUR room and
listening to you tell how idealistic you are.

So before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of
your parent's generation, try de-lousing the closet in your own room.

8. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life
hasn't.

9. In some schools, they've abolished failing grades. They'll give you
as many chances as you want for the right answer. This, of course,
bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

10. Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off; And
very few employers are interested in helping you "find yourself", so do
that on your own time.

11. Television is not real life. In real life, people actually have to
leave the coffee shops and go to jobs.

12. Be nice to nerds; chances are you'll end up working for nerds.

13. Smoking does not make you look "cool", it makes you look moronic.
Ditto for purple hair and pierced body parts.

14. Living fast and dying young is romantic-only until you see one of
your peers at room temperature.

GET UP WHEN YOU FALL DOWN. Michael Jordan has missed the
basket 1,000 times. He has lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times,
Michael Jordan has been trusted to take the game-winning shot - and
missed.
Jordan says, "Over and over and over again, I have failed. And
that is why I succeed."
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson