> I am an Eagle Scout [...] I hate the world we live in. Isn't there a merit badge or something in Optimistic Can-Do American Spirit? :) > My parents rewrote

> I am an Eagle Scout [...] I hate the world we live in. Isn't there a merit badge or something in Optimistic Can-Do American Spirit? :) > My parents rewrote the entire thing in what they described as “baby talk” and it was then accepted. The irony is not lost on me to this day. If you could do it over, would you let yourself be pressured into ironically submitting something that your parents wrote? Also, do you think whomever rejected your initial writeup did so because they didn't think you did it yourself? Or more like they thought you did it, but they wanted a more stereotypical youth style, maybe because they thought it was more the intent of the exercise? Or maybe for optics reasons, so that it looked like the image people have of a Scout, when upper officials and donors read it?