Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
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Oh, YAY!! Personal insight = accomplished.

See, it was very soothing to go from a place where life had no rules or meaning from day to day, unto one where the rules were clear and I apparently-- for the FIRST TIME-- had both the authority and ability to see to it that bad things didn't happen to me on a regular basis as a result of highly predictable cause-and-effect. (I think that this means that I pretty much WAS one of the kids in Jon's example.) College life was amazingly, exhiliratingly empowering.

My personal insight is that it's hard to raise kids when you are emotionally an angry, angsty 17 year old who hates life.

I still haven't figured that one out.

Last edited by JonLaw; 10/24/12 06:25 PM.