The first was likely going away to a private church school the last year of high school because I didn't have to try to not get stabbed or otherwise harmed in this school then. Though I was raised in Glendale and went to Glendale High School Before this in Los Angeles it wasn't always safe there in a variety of ways for anyone like most public schools. So, you had to always be on guard to survive your high school experience and seeing knife fights at lunch wasn't uncommon with police coming or vice principals showing up to try to stop the fight. So, staying alive in some ways was optional then in the 1960s and much different than things are now.
Then you were more likely to wind up in the hospital in Junior High and High School and now you might be more likely to be machine gunned to death by an AR-15 or Kalashnikov sub machine gun and die.
It was less common to die then from being knifed or beaten with a club or something but a a lot more people were crazy then because there was no abortion so children tortured by their mother's because they were forced to have this child meant they were crazy and insane. So, they didn't always make sense how they behaved and carried knives, clubs or tire irons or chain belts to use as weapons in school if no one saw them. There was no metal detectors then that kids had to walk through checking for knives or clubs or chains then. So, all sorts of things could be snuck into school in a situation like that and put people in the hospital or even kill them.
So, going to a private school I was taken seriously and no one messed with me because I was the biggest and strongest of the seniors there and so well respected. However, I had good parents and I wasn't one to start fights but if someone was going to attack me I would quickly finish that fight because I was always very strong and capable of defending myself because of my size of being about one head taller than other kids in any grade from 1st grade on.
Another factor in going to college was that I realized all the idiots in high school causing problems were either going to become criminals or work in a gas station filling up cars with gas then too or something like this. Intelligent well bred kids didn't try to kill each other with weapons only troubled ones.
So, they were NOT going to go to college anyway then. So, as a result you likely were not going to be killed in college (at least then).
So, the safety I felt in a private school I realized would extend to the safety of going to college so it became desireable to me to learn new things. I've always enjoyed learning new things in this world. It makes life much more interesting and rewarding. So, after the private school I realized going to college would be fun for me and mostly it was.
And Going to college more quickly led me to owning my own businesses by my late 20s onward.
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