Catch-22's in your life?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Today I am tired because I have to catch up with my homework, which I did not catch up on yesterday because I was tired and had to catch up with my homework. </p>

<p>Also, </p>

<p>I am (kind of) falling behind in school because I am too sleep deprived to pay attention in class, because I have to study late at night to make up for not paying attention in class, which I don’t do because I am too sleep deprived.</p>

<p>I don’t think I’ll ever be able to catch up with my homework. It runs very fast.</p>

<p>I had a lot of other good ones in my head, but now that I try to think of them, I can’t.
(Curse you, grade-inflicted sleep deprivation.)</p>

<p>So what are some catch-22’s in your life?</p>

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<p>Nice username. ;)</p>

<p>And man, I have the exact same situation. Except replace “tired” with “anxious”. I have terrible nerves, haha.</p>

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<p>I’ve caught 22 baseballs before.</p>

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<p>You have to take lots of AP’s to get into top colleges, but most don’t accept all the credits.</p>

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<p>What’s it called when someone does something to you that you don’t like… but then you turn around and do it to someone else? Is there a term for this?</p>

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<p>Haha I believed that’s called hypocrisy</p>

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<p>Mmmm a hypocrite says one thing and does another, right? </p>

<p>But (here’s a crappy example) what if someone hated being bullied in middle school by a high schooler, but grew up and became a high schooler bullying a middle schooler? They would never have said NOT to become a bully…</p>

<p>I mean, hypocrisy is pretty close to the meaning, but not quite.</p>

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Hypocrisy applies to actions as well as words.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t class your example as hypocrisy. After all, the person didn’t like it themself, but may not have believed that it was wrong. What would have been hypocratic, would be if said person held a campiagn at the time of bullying saying that it’s morally wrong etc, but when they came to be in a position of power didn’t stay true to their words and did the bullying themself.
Also, to disagree with the Wikipedia definition, I also think that hypocrisy can be believing in something, but not that it applies to you. For example, a person believes that theft is wrong, but sees something they really want so decides to steal it, regardless of their views on the subject, as they don’t feel as if it applies to them.
^not a great example, but I hope it gets my point across. Also, sorry this is so long :)</p>

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<p>How could you believe in something that does not apply to you even if you are confronted by the matter at hand?
If you believe that stealing is wrong, how could you disassociate from your own beliefs if you engage in theivery? That would be hypocrisy. That’s like a king making laws, but being himself above the law.</p>