Comments on: Done http://sodsbrood.com/dreams/2008/05/13/done/ Searching for the question to the answer of 42. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:12:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Heather http://sodsbrood.com/dreams/2008/05/13/done/#comment-21181 Heather Wed, 14 May 2008 14:36:13 +0000 http://sodsbrood.com/dreams/?p=542#comment-21181 Excellent point. I always thought I'd have plenty of time, too. Until I started doing math in my mid-20s. Suddenly, life didn't seem to stretch out endlessly ahead of me anymore... Excellent point. I always thought I’d have plenty of time, too. Until I started doing math in my mid-20s. Suddenly, life didn’t seem to stretch out endlessly ahead of me anymore…

]]> By: Matthew http://sodsbrood.com/dreams/2008/05/13/done/#comment-21179 Matthew Wed, 14 May 2008 12:06:43 +0000 http://sodsbrood.com/dreams/?p=542#comment-21179 I don't know how old the crop of students are who were in your class, but it takes awhile for the high school lackadaisical attitude to wear off. And sometimes it never does. I don't understand it either, but it's an age thing. Our teenage foster son is much the same way, and he hasn't been coddled in life. His attitude towards everything that happens is, "It'll all work out. Don't worry." He ruins his credit because he allows his bank account to become overdrawn--twice!--and his response is, "Don't worry, it'll all work out." Part of the problem is that they are so young, they really do believe that their choices don't matter because "it'll all work out" and after all, they've got plenty of time to fix their mistakes. Yeah, plenty of time. I don’t know how old the crop of students are who were in your class, but it takes awhile for the high school lackadaisical attitude to wear off. And sometimes it never does. I don’t understand it either, but it’s an age thing. Our teenage foster son is much the same way, and he hasn’t been coddled in life. His attitude towards everything that happens is, “It’ll all work out. Don’t worry.” He ruins his credit because he allows his bank account to become overdrawn–twice!–and his response is, “Don’t worry, it’ll all work out.”

Part of the problem is that they are so young, they really do believe that their choices don’t matter because “it’ll all work out” and after all, they’ve got plenty of time to fix their mistakes. Yeah, plenty of time.

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