LJ - in forty years time you will look back on your last post and laugh at the naivety expressed. Certainly there are smart 17 year olds but they have not yet had the tempering that comes with lifes experiences and from which comes wisdom (hopefully). The youth forget that all us oldies have been there and done that and those of us who are honest with ourselves will readily admit when we were 17 we were about the dumbest life form on earth. We thought we knew it all and the oldies were the dumbest life form on earth. How little we knew.