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Welcome to my world! I'm a pretty intelligent and talented at what I do guy. But I've never been able to make a success at anything I've tried. I'm in my mid f
by Normille 6y ago
Welcome to my world!
I'm a pretty intelligent and talented at what I do guy. But I've never been able to make a success at anything I've tried. I'm in my mid fifties now and still just scraping by on the poverty line. Meantime I see people earning obscene amounts of money for things like opening boxes on YouTube or selling appallingly shit pixel art on the Blockchain.
I don't [often] get depressed about it. I've come to accept the fact that luck is one virus to which I am completely immune and, if "all the world's a stage" then I've been assigned the part of 'third donkey from the left' rather than one of the starring roles my agent promised me.
Who cares. We'll all be dead in 100 years time anyway. Even Jess Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerburg et al's billions won't buy their way out of that one!
Or, to put it another way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
- sunstone 6y agoThey will be not only be dead but also forgotten. It amazes me that Howard Hughes, the Elon Musk of his day in the 50's and 60's, is almost never referenced any more.
- recov 6y agoTo be fair while Howard did a lot of really cool things, he didn't have a lasting legacy with anything. Elon on the other hand has multiple, something like spacex isn't just going to be forgotten. His seclusion didn't help.
- cpach 6y agoYou do have a point. Still, we can’t know for sure whom will be remembered by the people living in the future. Only they will know.
- burntoutfire 6y ago> Elon on the other hand has multiple, something like spacex isn't just going to be forgotten So far they haven't done anything that deserves that. If they do a manned mission to Mars and back that will be another story, but so far that hasn't happened.