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Originally Posted by cylon  Well if this is true than I sincerely apologize. Maybe I was overly sensitive and took it the wrong way. Like I said I had been focusing on cyncism!
Maybe I misperceived it as a flippant remark....No hard feelings intended |
No problem. No harm done.
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Originally Posted by cylon Must be my religious "I'm a dirty sinner therefore the only things I get from life are if God approves of my actions in the World™" heritage. Which I'm outgrowing. |
My background isn't remotely religious, but the result is the same. Instead, though, of the whole "dirty sinner/guilt" thing, my background was full of things like, "Life is HARD" and "If you're not #1, you're NOBODY!!" and "The world doesn't owe you anything, you have to fight for everything" and "It's easy to be a failure, but it takes work, sweat, effort and pain to be a success" and other such stuff. So success was always correlated with pain.
It's taken me some time to re-evaluate that correlation, and I can't say that I've been completely successful yet, but it's coming...