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People die, people come and go in your life, but if you focus on personal happiness and fulfillment, by achieving great things, you will be much more satisfied later in life.
Buzzzzzzzz...... wrong answer! If you focus on your own personal happiness, and fulfillment, by achieving great things, and consider others as...."welp, they come and go, yada, yada, ho hum...what a sad, miserable life.
Buzzzzzzzz...... wrong answer! If you focus on your own personal happiness, and fulfillment, by achieving great things, and consider others as...."welp, they come and go, yada, yada, ho hum...what a sad, miserable life.
It sounds like he is the byproduct of a sad and miserable life...
I was traveling through the country and visiting many historic, cultural and scenic locations. Many of these places were staffed by (semi) retired people who worked part time or in a volunteer capacity. While I enjoyed visiting with these older folks for a short time, I got trapped in some long conversations that were hard to get out of without feeling rude.
I was asked many personal questions that in today's society most younger people would never ask a stranger. (Like: Where exactly do I work, am I married, do I have kids, what are my kids names, where did I grow up, etc) I think these type of conversations with strangers were much more common in their day but not anymore.
How do you deal with older people who may have lost their social skills, without feeling like you are being rude?
I do not think those kind of questions are rude. Irst off I think the older genration is lonely. I am only 49 and I might ask those questions as well. As far as volunteers go do you think they are some secret ID info grabber and are going to use it against you? Do you have any idea how many people these volunteers see in a day? He might not even remember the questions tomorrow unfortunately unless he is a sharp one. I think we have soooooooooo much to learn from our elders and providing we do not die too young I hope people will be kind to us. We are what we give back. I want to love all and I want everyone to love me. Knowing that is unrealistic I hope people will be kind and think of the things they say. Words hurt at any age. I know from experience. Be kind to all it will someday be you
No, you've just been converted into a mediocre existence by society's standards of what the "American dream" is. I'm sure you enjoy it, which is great for you, I wouldn't enjoy that. I don't think it's impressive you have kids, I think it's a mistake, and I'm not impressed you have a husband either. It's great if that all makes you happy but those aren't status symbols. If anything it makes me more likely to suspect you're not really an original, outside-of-the-box thinker. And an "active social life"? I'd rather hear about what you've actually accomplished. I'm excited to hear 3 businesses, that is great, but throwing out the rest of the stuff doesn't impress me. It makes me yawn.
You make it sound like you think you are above us. In reality married , children, education, friends and a active social life makes a very rich person indeed. With out those things life is boring and very lonely, Maybe one might be young and nieve but true happiness is what MRStewart stated. I hope you get it.
May I ask a question? Why, in the name of the Great Pumpkin, are you people giving so much online time to JonathanLB? What relevance do his comments have to the OP? Let it go, for Pete's sake. Who cares what his opinion on success is? Or yours for that matter?
Get back to the main point. This sniping is beneath all of you.
Well, even though wife/I use the Internet almost every day, since the time the Internet was introduced to society, lots of people have gotten into legal trouble from what they have looked at on it! Awesome technology, yes, but a lot of the "awesome technology" cost a lot of money and we've known older people that are simply scared of it. The cars of yesterday didn't have computers in them, which meant the old "backyard mechanic" could work on their own cars. Today, most people won't work on their own cars and at almost $100 per hour labor, it can be very costly to have repairs done.
Yes, today's modern technology is nice for some folks that like it (like wife/I), but for others who are older than we are, it is very confusing and scary. We have a number of those "modern technology" type things, like a DVD Player/Recorder, DVD Video camera, etc........but, we like these modern items while many older folks don't.
Technology today is great, but years ago things were much, much simplier to do/use!!
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Simpler, happier times?! Haha, ok whatever. What is happier about when these people grew up? No Internet, no awesome technology, the cars were not nearly as cool, nothing was great about the past, let's not idealize it.
I like elderly people, but then again my family is in the business, so I can't really help but appreciate them! I like hearing stories from the past, too, I just don't think it's appropriate to idealize the past. There wasn't anything better about yesterday.
Dude, you and fnord ARE talking a losing battle on this Thread. Wayyyyyy to many people here understand the "olden times", like (obviously) you don't. BUT, that is ok, you do have your right to your opinion......no matter how CRAZY it does sound, you still have that right!
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Exactly. My world does revolve around me. The axis of rotation for the world is lodged firmly up my anus. And that's the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it, uh huh uh huh!
Actually, I'm VERY surprised that the Moderator has let this "slap each other in the face" thing go on this long! Personal opinions are one thing, but some of the comments in this Thread have definitely gotten out of hand! So, let's stop all of this CRAP and talk about the OP's Thread. Thank You!!
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Simpler, happier times?! Haha, ok whatever. What is happier about when these people grew up? No Internet, no awesome technology, the cars were not nearly as cool, nothing was great about the past, let's not idealize it.'
Since you didnt live 'in the past' , you never got to experience a Culture that wasnt so Narcisstic or Hedonistic, that had basic respect for people and thier possessions, knew the difference between right from wrong and wasnt apathetic about the issue, was able to walk round the neighborhood and get involved in a good dialogue exchange, could leave the house while going to the grocery store without locking the doors and windows, pornography was seen as morally degrading to women, Swingers were virtually non existent, Homosexuals knew better to keep it in the bedroom instead of in Public, if you knew a man or a woman was married ...you honored that union , if you were a man who wanted to get to know a woman better..she had enough dignity about herself to make you respect her or else you were history, the values and morals your parents taught you stayed with you for life instead of exchanging them once you reached your early 20's , and you looked upon the elderly as people who had lived alot longer than yourself and who had much wisdom , care, and love to share with you. The toys of Technology werent as plentiful as they are today, but neither was Moral Degradation of every kind. And God was still very much in the picture as he was from the time of our Founding Fathers for this Nation instead of people pretending he didnt exist so one can be their own 'god' of any lifestyle choice .
Buzzzzzzzz...... wrong answer! If you focus on your own personal happiness, and fulfillment, by achieving great things, and consider others as...."welp, they come and go, yada, yada, ho hum...what a sad, miserable life.
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I like hearing stories from the past, too, I just don't think it's appropriate to idealize the past. There wasn't anything better about yesterday.
