Mountain biking is intrinsically good, materialism is intrinsically bad, therefore: mountain biking is true when it brings contentment, not discontentment.
Sunshine brings happiness; rain a spirit of melancholy.
Heat enables and cold paralyzes.
Mountains hide the sunset while plains leave you with nowhere to hide.
Friends have the power to influence you. If you want to be influenced positively, develop positive relationships.
Negative relationships will necessarily have a negative effect on you. This may come in the form of negative attitudes or the reinforcement of negative behaviour.
It may not always be possible to control your influences, therefore choose your friends carefully and your close friends even more carefully. If you feel certain people are negatively influencing you, concentrate on positively influencing them. Rather than moving down to their level so that you can be with them, set your bar high and show them what you expect of them.
Children depend on their parents to break down logic problems for them. They will often miss hidden premises or the personal implications of what is said. This is evident in the inability of a group of children to respond when told to form a straight line without each individual receiving specific instruction on how to do so.
When an 18 year old demonstrates an apparent inability to understand the implications of the statement “we need to leave by 9:00am tomorrow” it is a mark of his youth, demonstrative that he expects someone else to provide him with more specific instructions. This problem can be easily avoided so long as the instructor does not act like the teenager’s parents. 18 year olds are capable of taking responsibility for themselves but, like children, they will avoid it if they think they don’t have to.
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