----------Whether you like Bill Gates or not...this is pretty
cool. Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out
at a high school speech about 11 things they did not
learn in school. He talks about how feel-good,
politically correct teaching has created a full
generation of kids with no concept of reality and how
this concept sets them up for failure in the real
world.

RULE 1
Life is not fair - get used to it.

RULE 2
The world won't 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 40 thousand dollars a year right out
of high school. You won't be a vice president with
car phone, until you earn both.

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

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
whine 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 are. So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parent's generation, try
delousing the closet in your 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.


This was given to me by a friend.

You did the right thing in being honest. Tell them you never ment to hurt their feelings and youa are sorry about it but jsut wanted to be honest.

I wrote this poem over a year ago. It means alot to me and has to many others also. I do not know how far it has gone but it has been passed on many times. This is the original that I wrote it does have typing errors in it.

Thank you for your wonderful comments

Thanks guys

Knights in shining amour and Damsels in distress

Kings and Queens with there princes and princess

Is part of what makes up fairy tales



Then you have Unicorns and Pegasus, castles and dragons with there mass
intelligence yet they guard Damsels in distress all the time as if there
is nothing better to do



Why do we continue to feed tales of helpless women to our daughters.



I gave up my fairy tales a long time ago and came to the realizations
there are no knights in shining amour

And if there where ever any dragons they left right along with the
knights maybe they are all playing poker some where and laughing at the
fools reading the same fairy tales to there kids



Swinging in the wind letting the world fall around me and not giving a
care it is not princes that float throw my mind but a soldier in arms
that gives his life for me so that I may have my freedom to change my
life



Jumping and watching the clouds go farther away with the wind around my
body what matters is not what you think but I know I do not fall alone



If know one loves or cares then what does it matter if you die?



Our damsels are no longer princess in towers but our daughters in there
beds

Knights in shining amour are no longer Princes but soldiers in arms for
our freedom



Kings and Queens are now Moms and Dads



So do you care to know the rest



Then you need to know it is not rubies that buy your life and freedom It
is the blood of those that have cried many nights cause they knew they
would never see those that they loved them or died never knowing what
love can be like



Next time you lie down and look up looking at the stars and dream of
knowing love and you dream of your Knight in shining amour you need to
know today he is dressed in a bullet proof vest and carries a real
weapon so that you can dream your dreams.



Your Unicorn and Pegasus have turned in to jets and magic has always
just been science so open a book and read



There are still plenty of Dragons today but they are no longer
intelligent instead today we call them terrorist



There is no happily ever after no more it is more like amen I am alive



We still have our fire flies to watch as we stare up at the stars and
dream our dreams and I love to the thanks my soldiers that lay there
lives down for me every day these are not just men but women and yes I
love every one of them



To walk by one of our modern day castles you may never notice because
they are called military bases and are very guarded even in this day and
time



So when it is all said and done with you need to live every day to its
fullest you never know when your fairy tale is over but I know my will
end with



Amen I am alive



Time is to short to waste take advantage of the day don't let the
fools get you down walk by them and keep moving cause every minute
counts

Makes me think of a destiny child song~~~ does anyone know the one I am thinking of that talks about a soldier

I myself prefer to phone talk for a while and text off and on b4 meeting someone.

OMG LMFAO you did not just say that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG isn't she old enough to have been through menopause by now

Maybe you do but I don't I come here to take a break between studying my brain out

More to life then a video game designed to suck away any life you use to have. *My personal opinion!!!!!!!*

OMG I have herd of this joke but never herd anyone tell it so good.

I would say " Hey excuse me you just went to the bathroom and didn't wash your hands." then "Please go wash your hands." Walk away go the the manager and call the health department on my cell.

yes, no and no

i forgot my phone one day and was thrilled till i realized daycare couldnt get ahold of me if something happened to my kids