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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My future?
"It's pointless worrying about the future; or worry about the future but know it's as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum."
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Not much optimism there Joe !
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"My future?
"It's pointless worrying about the future; or worry about the future but know it's as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum."
Not much optimism there Joe !
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All the bad things that happen to good people are balanced out by all the good things that happen to bad people. Well known fact.
Quids in, me.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Do you feel your future will be upwardly mobile, stagnant or retrograde..
I am what I am already and I don't plan on having kids so...
contented? "
Not really, but you while you may be able to buy a bigger house or move somewhere nicer you'll still be the same person at the end of the day. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My future?
"It's pointless worrying about the future; or worry about the future but know it's as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum."
Not much optimism there Joe !
All the bad things that happen to good people are balanced out by all the good things that happen to bad people. Well known fact.
Quids in, me.
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surely when bad things happen to good people who have nothing ,,,,,, there is no balance to that equation..
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"My future?
"It's pointless worrying about the future; or worry about the future but know it's as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum."
Not much optimism there Joe !
All the bad things that happen to good people are balanced out by all the good things that happen to bad people. Well known fact.
Quids in, me.
surely when bad things happen to good people who have nothing ,,,,,, there is no balance to that equation..
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No, you're just making it up now, lady.
Look at the grand sweep of human history... what is it but the tendency of those who are wealthy to do better?
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My future?
"It's pointless worrying about the future; or worry about the future but know it's as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum."
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I seem to find a nice bit of mastication aids in thinking (and alleviates the worry some too) |
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Hmmm. I don't really know. I'd like to think that things will get better, but I can't say with any degree of certainty that they will. I guess, in my gut, I'd say that things will probably be stagnant for the most part with small upward mobility. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My future?
"It's pointless worrying about the future; or worry about the future but know it's as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum."
Not much optimism there Joe !
All the bad things that happen to good people are balanced out by all the good things that happen to bad people. Well known fact.
Quids in, me.
surely when bad things happen to good people who have nothing ,,,,,, there is no balance to that equation..
No, you're just making it up now, lady.
Look at the grand sweep of human history... what is it but the tendency of those who are wealthy to do better?
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Why should generations of the future consign themselves to defeat by repeating the mistakes of the past....
History is just one thing after another but that doesn't mean it should always repeat itself...... ya reckon... eh! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Hmmm. I don't really know. I'd like to think that things will get better, but I can't say with any degree of certainty that they will. I guess, in my gut, I'd say that things will probably be stagnant for the most part with small upward mobility."
Do you feel you have less control over the outcome than you would prefer ....? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Hmmm. I don't really know. I'd like to think that things will get better, but I can't say with any degree of certainty that they will. I guess, in my gut, I'd say that things will probably be stagnant for the most part with small upward mobility.
Do you feel you have less control over the outcome than you would prefer ....? "
Yes. I think there is more control over influencing your life when you're in your 20s. The decisions made then are what set you up for failure or success later (or, this is the case in my and Marc's lives, anyway). So now we are seeing how the chips have fallen, and I'm not sure how smart our initial bets were.
But control is very often an illusion when it comes to success and failure, anyway. There is an element of it, yes, but there are too many contributing factors outside of our individual control.
That's been my experience, anyway.  |
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"My future?
"It's pointless worrying about the future; or worry about the future but know it's as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum."
Not much optimism there Joe !
All the bad things that happen to good people are balanced out by all the good things that happen to bad people. Well known fact.
Quids in, me.
surely when bad things happen to good people who have nothing ,,,,,, there is no balance to that equation..
No, you're just making it up now, lady.
Look at the grand sweep of human history... what is it but the tendency of those who are wealthy to do better?
Why should generations of the future consign themselves to defeat by repeating the mistakes of the past....
History is just one thing after another but that doesn't mean it should always repeat itself...... ya reckon... eh! "
History *is* just one damn thing after another. And it doesn't repeat itself - but it can rhyme, if you know what I mean.
"Why should generations of the future consign themselves to defeat by repeating the mistakes of the past...."
Dunno. You'll have to ask all those disenfranchised white people why they voted to turn the clock back 50 years.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Hmmm. I don't really know. I'd like to think that things will get better, but I can't say with any degree of certainty that they will. I guess, in my gut, I'd say that things will probably be stagnant for the most part with small upward mobility.
Do you feel you have less control over the outcome than you would prefer ....?
Yes. I think there is more control over influencing your life when you're in your 20s. The decisions made then are what set you up for failure or success later (or, this is the case in my and Marc's lives, anyway). So now we are seeing how the chips have fallen, and I'm not sure how smart our initial bets were.
But control is very often an illusion when it comes to success and failure, anyway. There is an element of it, yes, but there are too many contributing factors outside of our individual control.
That's been my experience, anyway. "
I agree with you ,,,,,,,
It's just speaking as an old-crock, I feel that back in my day young peoples aspirations were more tempered by their social environment and therefore broadly more realistic, where as now the younger generation seem too be force fed aspiration in a world where the reality of achieving is becoming increasingly stacked against them by the very nature more people now dare to aspire ...
There is a lot less room at the top than the bottom or the middle..  |
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It's just speaking as an old-crock, I feel that back in my day young peoples aspirations were more tempered by their social environment and therefore broadly more realistic, where as now the younger generation seem too be force fed aspiration in a world where the reality of achieving is becoming increasingly stacked against them by the very nature more people now dare to aspire ...
There is a lot less room at the top than the bottom or the middle.. "
What exactly are our unrealistic expectations?
Owning our own home, having a nice long retirement, enjoying the beauty of the natural world before flyback warming ducks it up |
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