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Are you a failure?

Are you a failure?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 30.8%

  • No

    Votes: 9 69.2%
  • Total voters
    13
Road Warrior

Road Warrior

Seeking the middle path..
Jim said:
Thank you. I wish you could know how much that means to me. Mist in my eyes now.
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Thanks. Not only happy to help but I’ve walked the walk. It wasn’t always easy, but I’m happier for it. Both of my younger brothers make more money than I do; one 3X more and the other only slightly more (about 10-15K). The 3X more couldn’t wait to retire and now has at age 57. He would have retired earlier, but he, IMO, was overly generous in a divorce and had to spend 5 extra years restocking his retirement nest egg. I love my job and, while I am looking forward to retirement at 65, I’ll miss it.
 
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dianaiad

dianaiad

Well-Known Member
Road Warrior said:
Thanks. Not only happy to help but I’ve walked the walk. It wasn’t always easy, but I’m happier for it. Both of my younger brothers make more money than I do; one 3X more and the other only slightly more (about 10-15K). The 3X more couldn’t wait to retire and now has at age 57. He would have retired earlier, but he, IMO, was overly generous in a divorce and had to spend 5 extra years restocking his retirement nest egg. I love my job and, while I am looking forward to retirement at 65, I’ll miss it.
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Trust me; the best retirement is...a change of career. If not a PAID one, something interesting!
 
Road Warrior

Road Warrior

Seeking the middle path..
dianaiad said:
Trust me; the best retirement is...a change of career. If not a PAID one, something interesting!
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Agreed. My new career will be a part-time welder/part-time fisherman....occasional hog hunter. I’ll also go back to CAP as a LtCol and flight instructor.
 
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sooda

sooda

Veteran Member
dianaiad said:
Yeah...I'm nearly seventy and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

On the other hand, I don't think I've done TOO badly so far. Failed a lot, Succeeded some, my kids love me and my parents think I'm OK, still. That's sufficient for my needs, I believe.
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I think we learn more from our failures than from our successes.
 
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SalixIncendium

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
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PopeADope said:
In your opinion, would you consider yourself a failure?

Jesus was the most successful person in the world and he was born in a barn and dirt poor. He was crowned with thorns spit on and crucified. That is failure!

I can't think of anyone more successful though. Something good may become of your failures.
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I have failed at many things in life. I have learned from these experiences and have done my best to prevent repeating such failures. Therefore, I do not consider myself a failure.

Changing behaviors that lead to failure breeds success.
 
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BSM1

BSM1

What? Me worry?
dianaiad said:
Yeah...I'm nearly seventy and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

On the other hand, I don't think I've done TOO badly so far. Failed a lot, Succeeded some, my kids love me and my parents think I'm OK, still. That's sufficient for my needs, I believe.
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Same here. Fulfilled a lifelong dream of playing in a rock/blues band just in the last couple of years. You're never a failure until you give up.
 
SalixIncendium

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
BSM1 said:
You're never a failure until you give up.
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What if I give up failing? Would that make me a failure at failing?

Wouldn't that make me successful at not failing? I would, in essence, be successful at giving up.
 
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suncowiam

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PopeADope said:
In your opinion, would you consider yourself a failure?

Jesus was the most successful person in the world and he was born in a barn and dirt poor. He was crowned with thorns spit on and crucified. That is failure!

I can't think of anyone more successful though. Something good may become of your failures.
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Prove to me Jesus is real then we can discuss if he was truly successful, otherwise I can make up fictitious individuals to claim how successful they were.

I'm not a failure. I've never been a failure but at times I thought of myself one.
 
Lyndon

Lyndon

"Peace is the answer" quote: GOD, 2014
Premium Member
Next thing you're going to tell me is money is the root of all happiness!!
 
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