From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihuxb!cbd
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: A long story and a question
Article-I.D.: ihuxb.241
Posted: Tue Mar 15 08:29:42 1983
Received: Fri Mar 18 20:30:04 1983
Reply-To: cbd@ihuxb.UUCP (Carl Deitrick)

I don't really like to knock someone who has had such a fright, but I think
the person to whom it happened needn't look to us for approval for doing what
he (she?) did.  I think college students, by reason of their exposure to 
professors and textbooks with answers in the back, tend to think that there
exists one right answer to all situations, even situations they encounter in
real life.  One only has to be out of school a little while to know that such
is not necessarily so.  So if the person to whom it happened is listening,
here's my comment:  You were there.  We weren't.  You know the situation, the
neighborhood, the mood and the other pertinent factors.  We don't.  Whatever
got you to safety without unnecessarily hurting anyone else is RIGHT!  Anyone
who tells you otherwise is a Monday-morning quarterback and should be ignored.
Developing trust in your own judgement is as important as anything you can
learn in a college classroom.

					Carl Deitrick
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