
Originally Posted by
cajunhawk
The rub is...everyone has no problem stating they stood up like big men and pulled themselves up with no help whatsoever. No one ever looks back and says, "you know what, being a kid you make mistakes, and these kids are from insanely different background and socioeconomic problems as I was. Maybe I shouldn't call them lazy and irresponsible, because that's EXACTLY WHAT I WAS AT THEIR AGE."
It's akin to an old man remembering he used to walk 5 miles to school in the snow with no shoes, when the mother____er lived two blocks from the school and had new shoes on his feet regularly. Everyone pulled themselves from the gutter to where they are today. I know I didn't. My parents worked their asses off to put me through catholic school, so that when I got to college I didn't have to work as a "metter" maid (shout out to the Bickster) the rest of my life. A lot of kids don't get that leg up. So you can't stare back down at them and apply your own, distorted life story to their's. It's a fool's errand. Apples to oranges. I'm not by any means advocating that lifestyle, but looking at them under the same lens that you view yourself isn't applicable.