Chance Threads - A Tale of Caution

MWolf
Thu, 23 May 2019 05:07:46 +0000

I would never advise any kid to try to take the route that my kid took, and if any kid asked to chance them on a route like my kid’s, I would say “don’t even bother”. Remember that you are a sample size of 1, and are not even close to being representative of what happens to most kids who decide to take your chosen route.

For every kid like you, there are twenty who post how devastated they are because they did not get into even one of their reaches. You belong to the 5% or so who took the chance you took and succeeded. However, you are ignoring the 95% who fail. What you are doing is almost as bad as kids who succeed, and then believe that they were always destined to succeed, not that things aligned just right for them.

Yes, dreams can come true. However, they usually don’t.