Bill Gates speech: 11 rules your kids did not and will not learn in school

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it! 

Rule 2: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. 

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. 

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. 

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity. 

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. 

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. 

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. 

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time. 

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. 

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Miss being a child

Life has a strange way of teaching things.They say that the experience is the best teacher....but i beg to differ....I feel a fresher mind like that of a child does things better fearless about the consequences, feeling the world in a most rational way.I miss being a child. I miss my childhood as it was a wonderful dream in which every day had  a surprise hidden in it. Everything around me was worth an exploration. Everything seemed possible . Living this life is the best part of existence and nature is the closest friend.I fell in love with this beautiful world around me for the fact that I was a part of it. There is no fear of failure in that child as failure was such a big fun.Learning by making mistakes is the best part of the childhood. Stories of good winning over the evil and heros thrashing the villains made me to crave to be a hero when i grow older.



As i grew older there seemed some disturbances affecting my beautiful world. Being in love is seen as sin,mistakes were not tolerated, Living well is synonymous to living wealthier, In order to survive we need to beat the rest by hook or crook....things were getting weird.

World has become stranger and sense of familiarity and belongingness to this world seemed to fade away.
A sense of insecurity seemed to creep in. But there is something deep in me which has become milder.Milder but present. This makes the child in me smile and look forward to life and that something is ........HOPE.

 Hope that the purpose of life is to live and live happily.....