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2. When I was a kid, me and my friends
loved to "sneak" into the movies.

3. This was a long time ago, when they
had color coded ticket stubs, AND guys
standing at the door to each theater to
check your ticket.

4. We'd save our stubs, and after a while
we would have all the colors, so we
could "re-use" them to see a couple
movies in one afternoon.

5. I don't know about you, but many of
my fond memories from my youth
revolve around trying to "break" or
"bend" the rules.

6. Being about to sneak around authority
without getting caught is always pretty
fun.

7. Especially when the "authority" is
some kind of puffed up guy trying
desperately to get people to believe in
his "authority."

8. Of course, we did go too far a few
times.

9. Once my buddies and I were into
collecting bicycle air caps.

10. Those things that screw on the top of
the air stem on your bicycle tire.

11. Once we saw this really cool
motorcycle, with these really cool
chrome caps on the air stems.

12. I reached down to "feel it," being a kid
I wanted to "touch" everything I
wasn't supposed to.

13. Then this big scary biker dude (at least
from a kids standpoint) came out and
accused me of trying to let the air of
his tires.

14. I don't remember exactly what I said,
but I DO remember that I ran away
quickly after that.

15. The truth is that some rules ARE
meant to be broken, and some rules
ARE meant to be obeyed.

16. One powerful skill as an adult is to
know the ones that don't really matter,
and have the courage to step over the
line to see what happens.

17. Now, I'm sure you've got an idea of
what "rules" are REALLY ones you
simply can't break.

18. On the other hand, there are other
"rules" that people "make up" not
because they are important, but
because they make the person saying
the rules FEEL important.

19. I don't have to tell you this, because
you already you know it's NOT your
job to make others feel important.

20. It is your job, however, to figure out
what you want, and get it.

21. No matter how big, how matter far out
there.

22. Your dreams belong to you, and
nobody else.

23. If somebody tells you that SHOULD
behave in a certain way, and that
would keep you from achieving your
dreams, while only make THEM feel
important, well, screw that!

24. Your job is to break as many as THOSE
rules as you need to, in order to make
your dreams come true.

25. It's not easy. But somebody's gotta do
it.

26. Why not you?

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