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I've yet to meet someone I would trade places with. If they're smarter than me, maybe they make less money. If they're richer than me, and smarter, maybe I don'
by asdfasgasdgasdg 7y ago
I've yet to meet someone I would trade places with. If they're smarter than me, maybe they make less money. If they're richer than me, and smarter, maybe I don't care for their spouse. Or they're in bad physical shape, or they're neurotic and difficult to be around. If all else fails, you can consider how many people have it worse than you, and how, even if you had it worse, it would still be ok.
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken. ... Which is okay. Sometimes it's all right just to be a little bad. To know your limitations. Make do with what you've got.
- whiddershins 7y ago“I've yet to meet someone I would trade places with.” Maybe because I agree, but this is one of my favorite statements written by anyone ever.
- b_tterc_p 7y agoThough to be fair, that quote is from the worlds greatest cyber samurai, perhaps only unremarkable because being a cyber samurai isn’t all that important in that universe.
- arvinsim 7y agoIn what novel is that excerpt from?
- akhilcacharya 7y agoThat’s an interesting thought that I’ve never personally had. I know dozens of people whose lives I’d rather have.
- GrapeFriedNiggr 7y agoSame. There's the standard risk-aversion which would prevent me trading with the mean person, but sometimes you see someone who seems to have it better in every way and just obviously disqualifies my life from being Pareto efficient.
- knocte 7y agoAre you 100% sure? Maybe they have a downside that you wouldn't be willing to accept.
- foldingmoney 7y ago>I've yet to meet someone I would trade places with. If they're smarter than me, maybe they make less money. If they're richer than me, and smarter, maybe I don't care for their spouse. Or they're in bad physical shape, or they're neurotic and difficult to be around. aka 'sour grapes'