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A spambot advertising Australian universities in Chinese? Well, this is quite unexpectedly entertaining XD
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BandorKitty's Quote of the Day #27
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- Booker T. Washington
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BandorKitty's Quote of the Day #26
My momma always said, "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get".
- Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
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BandorKitty's Quote of the Day #25
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
- Chinese Proverb
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The thing is, if you wanted a full grown "tree" now, the best time to plant was 20 years ago. Sure, 10 years ago would be half as good, but what if you missed that chance?
Really, it's about life opportunities. Say you wanted to be in a certain profession or have the knowledge and experience to enter a certain field. I'll use my uni course as an example. It takes 3 years to complete my current course. If I had started right after I had finished high school, I would have completed my course by the end of last year. So ideally, the best time for me to start was 3 years ago. However, I only started last year, although due to circumstances beyond my control, not because I didn't want to. I'm not as "grown" as I would have been had I started 3 years ago, however I'm well on my way.
Say if when I finished high school and I decided that I didn't want to do a uni course, but only this year I decided that was a bad decision and actually wanted to be in this very field. Then that's the missed opportunity that the proverb is talking about. The ideal time to start was 3 years ago, yet I'm now "planting the tree" to have what I want in 3 years time.
This is my understanding of it And sorry it took so long, my internet went down as I was writing
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BandorKitty's Quote of the Day #24
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
- Robert Frost
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O_O Just one more post and I hit 100