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I feel this change- every time I get a raise, every time I make a $500 purchase on a whim, these are the things that my inner-teenager rages about, but why expe

I feel this change- every time I get a raise, every time I make a $500 purchase on a whim, these are the things that my inner-teenager rages about, but why experience success if I can't enjoy it? When I was younger, I didn't understand the ways of the people above me because I didn't have the discipline to obtain the means that would allow me to make those choices. In essence, "you hate it because you ain't it".

eropple 9y ago
You hate it because you ain't it and have been conspired against by the entirety of society to never, ever, ever be it. That's what you are eliding, and it should be out in the open. You got lucky. So did I. You may have worked hard for it. I certainly didn't. Hard work increases luck; it does not substitute for it. It's a crapshoot, and the folks referred to in that article know it. Why not just shrug and go along, if the roulette wheel controlled it in the first place?
- flachsechs 9y ago
  > Why not just shrug and go along, if the roulette wheel controlled it in the first place? notice how buddhism and stoicism is all of a sudden so fascinating to everyone in the 'scene' ?
  - eropple 9y ago
    I am an Emojishrugcurian, personally, but that's a good pull, I hadn't thought of that.
- jameskegel 9y ago
  I think you applied some type of subconscious bias to my statement, and in the process misunderstood it. It took a lot of hard work for most things in my life, like most people. Nobody has conspired against me, but interesting you say that because I've met many like yourself who conspire against themselves, unwilling to realize their true potential because of an imaginary bogie-man. I view that habit as apathy, and so long as everyone else is idled and unwilling to try, I will continue to be relatively successful just doing my best, over and over until I stop.

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I feel this change- every time I get a raise, every time I make a $500 purchase on a whim, these are the things that my inner-teenager rages about, but why expe

by jameskegel 9y ago

eropple 9y ago
You hate it because you ain't it and have been conspired against by the entirety of society to never, ever, ever be it. That's what you are eliding, and it should be out in the open. You got lucky. So did I. You may have worked hard for it. I certainly didn't. Hard work increases luck; it does not substitute for it. It's a crapshoot, and the folks referred to in that article know it. Why not just shrug and go along, if the roulette wheel controlled it in the first place?
- flachsechs 9y ago
  > Why not just shrug and go along, if the roulette wheel controlled it in the first place? notice how buddhism and stoicism is all of a sudden so fascinating to everyone in the 'scene' ?
  - eropple 9y ago
    I am an Emojishrugcurian, personally, but that's a good pull, I hadn't thought of that.
- jameskegel 9y ago
  I think you applied some type of subconscious bias to my statement, and in the process misunderstood it. It took a lot of hard work for most things in my life, like most people. Nobody has conspired against me, but interesting you say that because I've met many like yourself who conspire against themselves, unwilling to realize their true potential because of an imaginary bogie-man. I view that habit as apathy, and so long as everyone else is idled and unwilling to try, I will continue to be relatively successful just doing my best, over and over until I stop.