You're Not Special

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What an absolutely brilliant piece of work. This guy rocks! I obviously can't speak for other countries but in mine at least, it seems to me that we quit preparing our children for the real world a long time ago. Many of them have a tough time making it in a world that seems much less impressed by them than the doting parents who have spent their entire lives insulating Bobby or Suzy from how the real world really operates. Although I'm on the tail end of the baby boomers, my parents were well into middle age when I came along. They were both kids of the Depression. They knew first hand that the world wasn't a fair place where everyone is entitled to non-stop happiness. I thank my lucky stars daily I had parents that raised me in the real world and that I was grown before the alternative became so popular.