[itistoday2]

I'm not entirely disagreeing with you. If you look at what I said, I wasn't really taking issue with the overall theme of her message, I was taking issue with how she chose to express it and some of the specific assertions she made. Gran and this woman would be making the same mistake: assuming that their life experience is somehow representative of the life experience of someone else. Sure, it's nice to listen to others and learn from the lessons they learned, but don't go telling others that they will have the same experiences you had, as though they are inevitabilities. I'd get mad at gran if she had said that too.