[Splintered]

Reading it over, it sounds nice.

But it isn't the first time I've heard this "wisdom" before. I've been told two conflicting stories. One side says "You don't need to work, just don't slack off and let your curiosity roam. You'll do fine". The other side says "You need to stay in school, get a college education, and you'll do fine".

So far, half and half of the first side have jobs. The other side, almost all of them do.

It's confusing as to which one to believe. I'm being told that if I never lose hope I can accomplish all this good stuff. As much as I want this to be true, looking at my own life, I realize that I don't have a safety net to experiment on. If I screw up, and miss that college ticket, then I have to really hope that I can make it without a college education, and if I can't, I'll spend my entire life paying for that mistake.