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Originally Posted by hrandani
I completely disagree with everything in this post. Life is not full of choices where you sit down and rationally plan things out for most people. You wind up in a certain place before you can turn around and even begin to make decisions, and even then, it's not up to you.
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I pretty much disagree with everything you said in this post. Life IS full of choices. If it's not a conscious thing for most people, it's because they make it that way. They don't think about what they are doing. Whether one realizes it or not, your life is pretty much the sum of your choices. Nobody just "winds up" at some place not knowing how they got there. If you have a shitty life and the only way you can go on is to live in denial, then yes I can see how you'd think that way. Only a fool thinks they have no control over their life. A goddamn fool.
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This is a prime example of completely buying into the package, not thinking, never trying to change anything and "everybody winds up where they deserve to be" bullshit you can expect of somebody who classifies an MBA as lifelong learning. (30 pieces of silver, anybody?) I'm not even going to directly address the mentality where one's wife and kids are checkboxes on the road to happiness.
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No, Skysooner was advocating finding what makes you happy and doing it, no matter what it is. He never said that you have to have kids to be happy. Did we even read the same post??
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Now, does that mean this poster accepts that? No, but the fact that he chose to represent it to the general public is indicative of his desire to fit in, which aligns neatly with the rest of his life. So here's your answer to your question, you can either buy into the whole system, or change your lifestyle accordingly in order to find what makes you happy. Because as vitriolic as my criticism of his lifestyle may be, if he's truly happy then nothing else matters, including my criticism. And that is something worth envying, if for all the wrong reasons.
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Um, I think you really misunderstood skysooner's post. He said do what makes you happy. You said he's full of shit, then you came back and said to do what makes you happy. Why didn't you understand that's what he said in the first place?