and i can appreciate from a different perspective that ive thrown myself into life and ive experienced a lot and that a lot of people would envy me, but that doesn't change the way things haunt me at night when i cant sleep. i wish i was still a virgin who had never had more than one drink in an evening and considers a big party to be overwhelming and exciting.

if i could tell anyone still young enough to make that decision any advice at all - i would tell them to retain dignity at all costs.

this is exactly the sort of thing that makes me think about my students and what i really want them to end up learning and this is the sort of thing that i think belongs in a PSA but then it would be just another PSA and this is the sort of thing that makes me so unbelievably impressed with the writer and this is the sort of thing that makes me feel (maybe just a little) less bad for not having thrown myself into life and for not having experienced as much as maybe i should have...



and, really, what it is i want my students to end up learning is to think for themselves and particularly to think about what they've done and who they are and who they want to be and how all of that connects.