Does it depend on your life stage?
Your Life Chances?
Your Achievements?
As I rapidly approach old age, my granddaughter is six, my eldest son in his early thirties, my youngest from another relationship 14. I'm left wondering, I have a good job, a girlfriend half my age, two failed marriages, 4 children from 2 mothers. I've studied and received degrees from multiple Universities, I have visited 48 countries and lived in 6.
Two of my children are college educated, and one isn't old enough yet.
I can still bench 160Kg + for a few reps,
So, clearly my life is a litany of success and failure, I've never made a marriage work, yet I'm thinking about trying for the third time. I'm even thinking about yet another family.
Are we all winners and losers? Do we have stages in our lives when we are both? Is the only way our success can ever be judged when we are dead?
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Off the top of my head, IMO, key elements to being a success, a 'winner', are:
- Have a goal.
- Have the Strength of Will to persevere toward that goal.
- Adaptation: again, SoW, to realize when to let go, to reinvent oneself in the face of failure.
- Self-sacrifice (compassion, perspective): being able to see things from others' PoV, putting their needs over yours when necessary. Ie, what price success if one loses one's basic humanity? ("Above all else, a god needs compassion! Mitchell!!")
The above ingredients will vary depending on one's personality, life stages, and the general Out-Of-Left-Field stuff that Life loves to through at us.
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A winner is someone who ascends the lobster dominance hierarchy, slays the dragon of chaos, rescues their father from the underworld and brings new life to the dead corpse that was once the civilization of their parents.
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Honestly, just being able to do what you want and getting fulfillment from that. It can be a career, it can be having a successful family, but it can be just the ability to afford enough free time and comfort to fulfill your dream about writing a book. In the end if somebody is happy with himself when reviewing his life with full self-honesty, he is a winner.
You have lots of people having careers and money most would envy, but they are unhappy, troubled and sad. Then you have people that have a job and wealth others would consider shitty, but they need only the bare necessities and fulfill their dreams by traveling to the farthest reaches of the world with their friends and you just see they are really happy and love their lifes. So as long as you can do things that make you happy, or at least lead to that, you're a winner.
the edgelord nailed it. many successful people are miserable and many working class people are happy, etc, etc. a winner should at least be happy
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Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.
But what about our contributions to others, for example, I worked in Path for a few years performing tests diagnosing diseases and doing research etc. Are the thousands of lives I've been involved in saving as much service to mankind as a soldier who shot some teenage Afghan? Or are they not equitable?
Yea but bragging about saving thousands of peoples lives isn’t humble. If that’s something you truly beleive you did, posting about it here non chalant is vomit worthy.
True it's factual, the Haem. and Eosin stains alone ran at thousands a week from hundreds of different people, then you have the special tests. The studies on Glom nephritis I was involved in, which lead to new treatments. The biopsy testing etc. etc. Thousands seems fair, but like I said it was a day job and something I wanted to do. As at least one bit of work on glom nephritis led to new treatment in the early nineties worldwide, aren't you going to thank me mate? Never know your kidneys might struggle.
Oh shit, you're old enough to be my father. That's a weird thought.
I think of you as a pal, not an uncle-figure.
It's a good think I'm American and not Southeastern Chinese where I have to address you with age-specific honorifics and talk to you respectfully, barmy c*nt.
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