It is amazing how as kids we are expected to make these massive, life-changing decisions with no possible way to know what is best or how it works out. Imagine if it had gone the other way how different your life would be now. So tell me, are you still friends with this other person? Does he think it was agood decision as well?

I have a friend here, a Venezuelan, for whom life has been the definition of hard. His mom is mentally challenged and uneducated. He never knew his dad. Was on his own in the streets of Caracas at 14. Now at 30 he supports 5 children (including two kids that arent technically his) along with his mom, grandma and aunt. He works like crazy but never has anything in his pocket. The result is that he wants to join the French Foreign Legion. Promises of a new life including healthcare, a salary, a french passport, and the possibility of a better life overshadow the probability that he will likely have to kill people in exchange. As I pushed send on the button to get his ticket to Paris and his new life, I have no idea how it will turn out. Perhaps he will soar and perhaps he will be destoyed instead. It is impossible to know. But decisions were made with full knowledge of the possible consequences. No rock paper scissors were employed.