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Originally Posted by CommanderRachek
...For example, I love to play the banjo, but I could never forgive myself if all I did was sit around on my porch and play "Cripple Creek." It would be hugely unfair to everyone who has fed, clothed, and educated me, and who have provided clean water and decent health care and safe streets, etc. However, if I was to become a music teacher, for instance, and teach other people to play and love the banjo, that would be a different story.
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i may be misreading your posts, but it sounds almost as if you are doing FIRST (and plan to continue to do FIRST) purely for the enjoyment, and excluding just about everything else.
if that is the case, you might as well sit on your porch and play the banjo.
first and foremost, FIRST was created to encourage people to pursue careers in technology and science, not to build robots for fun. if all you ever do is build competive robots, you aren't really improving society.
i've been in FIRST for 7 years now. i've been a mentor for the last 4. granted, i've had a lot of fun, and probably wouldn't do this if i hadn't enjoyed myself. but i also wouldn't have been nearly as devoted as i am now if i didn't think i was helping change society for the better.
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Originally Posted by Salik Syed
I'm also a teenager myself, and one thing I've finally found out is that adults/parents don't always know what's best for you... even though they may act like they do. However I've also learned that neither do I... nor anyone for that matter. Life is a wierd situation... you have one chance to live it right, and nothing to guide you except your gut and other people and perhaps religion... and every piece of advice from those sources is essentially unprovable...
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i agree with just about everything you say, with the exception of this. while its true that no-one on this earth always knows whats best for you, i'd expect that your parents are gonna be right more than any other source (including yourself). they've been around a lot longer than you, and (with a few exceptions) they know you as well as, if not better than, yourself. they did raise you, after all. they've known you all your life. looking back on my life so far, my parents track record is alot better than mine.
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Originally Posted by Chris Fultz
I invite you to come back to this thread in about 5 years, read all that is written, and see if your views have changed. Experience says you will have a significantly different view of the world....
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this is true; if you want proof, go back and read my first posts, and compare 'em to what (and how often) i post now.
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