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I consider you lucky, you had a big goal and you went all out to try and get there. There has to be some satisfaction in having put it all out on the line. Most

by sage76 9y ago

I consider you lucky, you had a big goal and you went all out to try and get there. There has to be some satisfaction in having put it all out on the line. Most people live fairly mundane lives, directionless and sans ambition. I wish I had that kind of singular focus on something when I was 10. Considering where I was born, I had little opportunity to pursue sports/music/whatever at a young age, my society pushes kids to become bookworms. I feel I greatly missed out. > hours I could have spent making friends and/or becoming a normal person. It's overrated, and you can have normality when you're old.

gkya 9y ago
"Normality" is really very overrated indeed. I learnt rather late that one had to come to terms with his particularities and that "normal" was not that good of a thing to be; realisations before which I was suffering in agony because I wasn't "normal". Conforming to the society without compromising oneself is okay, trying to fix defects one's own personality is okay, but all these are possible without becoming "normal", which implies mediocrity, ordinariness.