Which of the following four would you accept for your life?

Which of the following four would you accept for your life?

  • Completly alone but very well off

  • Known but apart and simply comfortable

  • Accepted by all fitting the role of an "everyday person"

  • Loved and loving in return and having little more than that


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My reason is that I grew up with parents that lived paycheck to paycheck...I grew up with hand-me-down clothes, my mother cutting my hair, and having to do my homework by flashlight, and it ticked me off....I've promised myself I will not end up like them
 
I would rather be unhappy and rich than happy and poor. Plus it is very seldom for poor families to live happily ever after as you are just perpetuating poverty and bad education even though you love your family to death.

Plus if I was rich with no family I would give to those less fortunate.
 
Well, I'm alone already and I don't really mind, so being well off is just the icing on the cake.
In my experience,... People go through that Phase in life where Alone is "OK"
Usually folk only regret it if ever when they are too old to generate offspring.

Not necessarily, I've pretty much been drilled into me that I'm here for a purpose and to fulfill a niche work need. Now if I don't fill that void of fulfilling purpose then I am effectively nothing.

The cash rewards are only some flimsy guideline of how well i fill that void.

it's like being a training all your life to perform in some olympic event. It'd be such a waste if the event never truelly existed (and red bull weren't able to make it up for you).
Okay. To me it sounds like you are saying that your occupation defines / Validates you.

I will say that you are probably worth more than that.

My reason is that I grew up with parents that lived paycheck to paycheck...I grew up with hand-me-down clothes, my mother cutting my hair, and having to do my homework by flashlight, and it ticked me off....I've promised myself I will not end up like them
Every biography involing the Ultra rags to riches story says that @ some point - some defining moment where they were heartily sick of going hungry.

The Happy ones become better off than their parents w/o forgeting where they came from.


I would rather be unhappy and rich than happy and poor. Plus it is very seldom for poor families to live happily ever after as you are just perpetuating poverty and bad education even though you love your family to death.

Plus if I was rich with no family I would give to those less fortunate.

....
Why do so few avoid at least being content and "in the mix" (2 & 3 ) but instead grudgingly go with 1 & 4????
 
^I picked "Known but apart and simply comfortable"...check for yourself. But when it comes down to it...being comfortable I value more than being loved by everyone. For someone that is loved by everyone and constantly seeks the reverance of everyone else...they more than likely are unhappy with their own self.
 
The Happy ones become better off than their parents w/o forgeting where they came from.

I have always hated this expression......I think it gets used as an excuse to not hold oneself to a higher standard....
 
^I picked "Known but apart and simply comfortable"...check for yourself. But when it comes down to it...being comfortable I value more than being loved by everyone. For someone that is loved by everyone and constantly seeks the reverance of everyone else...they more than likely are unhappy with their own self.

(raised eyebrow)
Not what I meant.
 
I have always hated this expression......I think it gets used as an excuse to not hold oneself to a higher standard....

(Whoa - both Eyebrows on that one.)
Why is it seen in my circle to mean you hold yourself to a higher standard because you have experienced how bad it could be,.... and in yours its a reason to slack off?
 
(Whoa - both Eyebrows on that one.)
Why is it seen in my circle to mean you hold yourself to a higher standard because you have experienced how bad it could be,.... and in yours its a reason to slack off?

Not slack off...let me clarify...a good example is an athlete who comes from a background in which he and his family struggled, he becomes a professional athlete and then feels obligated to bring all his friends along as "hangers on" because if he doesn't...he has forgotten where he has come from and is considered a sell-out....
 
In my personal belief,... we are starting the slide back into barbarism.

The signs are all there:

Increase in selfish behavior sanctioned by the haves .

Increase in a "just because" attitude in regards to WHY people may mess with others.

Increase in a minimalizing of "Family Values" - which translates to : Broken homes because people who make children don't like each other enough to stay together to raise them. The error of trying to Equalize the sexes in areas where the differences should be celebrated. Gender DOES make a difference in behavior between the sexes and the well rounded raising of children.
Only the selfish believe otherwise because it takes away from what they want.

This poll and mild discussion underlined what I already secretly believe - that as a society we are flowing toward "things" being more important than "people".


Peace.
 
1. Two vultures board an airplane, each carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at them and says, "I'm sorry, gentlemen, only one carrion allowed per passenger."

2. Two boll weevils grew up in So. Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became famous. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.

3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it, too.

4. A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He slides up to the bar and announces: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw."

5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? He wanted to transcend dental medication.

6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After 1hr, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, moving off. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."

7. A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named "Ahmal." The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him "Juan." Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal."

8. These friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, by proving that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.

9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.

This made him ... What? (Oh, man, this is so bad, that it's good)... A super callused fragile mystic vexed by halitosis.

10. And finally, there was a man who sent ten different puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
 
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