Ah... I knew there was another reason to like Harry Potter just lurking around here somewhere. :)
I chose this one because it's the only thing that saved me from so many of the mistakes my peers were making as we grew up. I stuck to it because my mother's enduring lesson to me was, "If everyone's going to jump off the Mississippi River bridge, are you going to do it too?"
Her general message was to fight against the crowd, and fortunately I decided that meant fighting the crowd when they said being cool involved doing stupid things. But I think the moral context needs to be there.
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Date: 2004-08-06 06:36 am (UTC)I chose this one because it's the only thing that saved me from so many of the mistakes my peers were making as we grew up. I stuck to it because my mother's enduring lesson to me was, "If everyone's going to jump off the Mississippi River bridge, are you going to do it too?"
Her general message was to fight against the crowd, and fortunately I decided that meant fighting the crowd when they said being cool involved doing stupid things. But I think the moral context needs to be there.
So: virtue is hard, but be virtuous anyway.