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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 349753, member: 66"]I glad to hear that you plan to continue.  I think in the long run you will find that you made the right decision. I'd like to comment on one thing you said At this stage of your life one thing you must do is learn to stand up and make your own decisions and not let others exert undue influence over you.  Today they make fun of you because they collect coins, in the future you wil almost certainly have some who will do so to get you to smoke, or do drugs, or go out and get drunk every weekend.  If you haven't learned to resist these people you will eventually wind up doing something you will regret for a long time.  Understand that many people are on a deadend trail in life will often try a drag down those who have things or are getting ahead.  (At the risk of sounding racist, this is the problem with a lot of the black youth in this country.  They fall to peer pressure  not to succeed because if they start to do well in school they get ridiculed by the underachievers as "acting too white".  So they stop studying  and the result?  Low test scores , a high drop out rate, dead end jobs, lack of representation in better jobs, and a high representation in the prison population.  And it's not because they CAN'T, it's because they allow others to infulence them and they DON'T.)  So make sure that what ever decisions you make, for good or for bad are YOUR decisions and not just those of your peers.[/QUOTE]