That brush is a bit broad. If you choose the right stuff to read it might help with your education. Smart is something that you –hopefully– are born with. However, education may teach you how to use your brains power.
Argue as you will, each of us has talents unique to us alone. It is the discovery of those talents, whether through the well worn nature or nurture theme or otherwise that takes up most of our early years. It is the improvement of and use of those talents that take up most of our waking hours – and quite a few of our dreams. In our later years, it is our success in that process by which we determine if we have lead satisfactory lives. T’is ever thus. Youth is striving for maturity. Age is maturity looking back at youth.
Frazz 17h · I was definitely that kid when I was young, fully determined to circumvent the aging process through sheer effort. Or maybe sheer wishing. It probably went back and forth and the line blurs. Now, looking down the barrel at 60, I’m that kid all over again, determined to circumvent the aging process just as much, though in the opposite direction. And this time around I know to commit more doing than wishing.
The V-shaped washboard never did quite materialize, and the odds get slimmer as I perhaps don’t. Fortunately, swimming and running and stuff are fun for their own sake. No work ethic required.
pschearer Premium Member about 3 years ago
The perpetuity gland?
Sanspareil about 3 years ago
If he robs the local bank he could also get six to ten years!
unfair.de about 3 years ago
That brush is a bit broad. If you choose the right stuff to read it might help with your education. Smart is something that you –hopefully– are born with. However, education may teach you how to use your brains power.
sandpiper about 3 years ago
Argue as you will, each of us has talents unique to us alone. It is the discovery of those talents, whether through the well worn nature or nurture theme or otherwise that takes up most of our early years. It is the improvement of and use of those talents that take up most of our waking hours – and quite a few of our dreams. In our later years, it is our success in that process by which we determine if we have lead satisfactory lives. T’is ever thus. Youth is striving for maturity. Age is maturity looking back at youth.
Ukko wilko about 3 years ago
More knowledgeable, not smarter. Smart is the baseline you work with.
6th Billiard Ball Student about 3 years ago
Do 10 stand downs followed by 10 pull downs if sit ups and push ups are too tough,
swenbu Premium Member about 3 years ago
Mallett, you have unleashed a monster again!
JoeMartinFan Premium Member about 3 years ago
Wait until you’re older, kid. Then you can do sit-ups AND work your lats to get that V-shape. A “washboard” alone won’t do it.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 3 years ago
Frankly, if you’re currently only 7 years old, pretty much anything you do with your body is gonna take 6 to 10 years.
MITZI about 3 years ago
I love Frazz’s final line.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 3 years ago
Knowledgeable yes, smarter? Maybe.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 3 years ago
Jef Mallett’s Blog Log
Frazz 17h · I was definitely that kid when I was young, fully determined to circumvent the aging process through sheer effort. Or maybe sheer wishing. It probably went back and forth and the line blurs. Now, looking down the barrel at 60, I’m that kid all over again, determined to circumvent the aging process just as much, though in the opposite direction. And this time around I know to commit more doing than wishing.
The V-shaped washboard never did quite materialize, and the odds get slimmer as I perhaps don’t. Fortunately, swimming and running and stuff are fun for their own sake. No work ethic required.