When we were little kids life seemed so much easier;

You looked up to your teachers and thought that they knew everything, your parents were the brains and all you had to do was be like them and you would be fine. I think that's partially why everyone grows up thinking they're lost and so confused. Nobody could have ever told us it was going to be this hard. When you were five you didn't understand that your teacher was probably some recent college grad that possibly didn't know what they were doing, and was in all likely-hood doing this because they flunked out of under grad. I'm not purposely pointing fingers at kindergarten teachers, but trying to say that hardly anyone grows up and does what they were planning.

On a similar note... and I might kill myself for saying this. I can't believe that we as a society worship athletes for things they do on a field or court while off the court these are just normal people. Tiger Woods was a picture perfect family man until he was found at the scene of a car crash in his neighbor's lawn after being chased down by his wife with a golf club(turns out she can swing one pretty well too). Leonard Little of the St. Louis Rams was involved in an involuntary manslaughter case and killed someone while drunk driving, he then served three months. Brett Favre was honored for supporting his wife and her battle for cancer, and on the weekends he is sending naked pictures to reporters. Roethlisberger- rape Kobe- rape. You get the point.

Just like any profession there are good and bad people in it. Just like the teachers and parents we used to think were perfect. It just opens my eyes to the fact that everyone is human, and nobody really has it easy.

My question is do you think it is better to "pull the wool over the sheep's eyes," with children? Meaning let them go along thinking that Santa Claus exists, mommy and daddy are super heroes and can't do wrong, and that as long as you stay close to home everything will work out? Or do we show them that the world is difficult, and the only way to succeed is through hard work and diligence? However sometimes that isn't even enough.

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