This sounds kind of weird saying the same thing twice, but I'm afraid I'll get yelled at for continuing from the title. What are some words to live by that you've picked up throughout life?
On Wendnesday, my grandpa and I had just finished siding his lake cabin, and were about to throw away the trash left over. There was some pasture ground just across the road from the dumpsters (in Nebraska, there's pastures everywhere), and the cows were lounging in the shade. As Grandpa was backing his pickup up to the dumpsters, he looks over at me and says "Cows wouldn't make very good research scientists. They're never curious about anything."
But on a more serious note, my dad taught me that it's okay to be myself and enjoy the time I have, because he remembers what it's like to be my age. He even learned of a time when I and a large group of friends went on a ding-dong ditching spree. He told me I probably shouldn't do that, but then he and his fiancee look at each other and start laughing as he says "But we did it anyway!"
On Wendnesday, my grandpa and I had just finished siding his lake cabin, and were about to throw away the trash left over. There was some pasture ground just across the road from the dumpsters (in Nebraska, there's pastures everywhere), and the cows were lounging in the shade. As Grandpa was backing his pickup up to the dumpsters, he looks over at me and says "Cows wouldn't make very good research scientists. They're never curious about anything."
But on a more serious note, my dad taught me that it's okay to be myself and enjoy the time I have, because he remembers what it's like to be my age. He even learned of a time when I and a large group of friends went on a ding-dong ditching spree. He told me I probably shouldn't do that, but then he and his fiancee look at each other and start laughing as he says "But we did it anyway!"
