Do you consider older people winners or losers? (70+, cousins, accidents)
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I have yet to meet anyone who has lived a truly charmed life that was never touched by loss, sorrow, misfortune, etc. That being said, depending your perspective on life we could all be considered losers.
I have yet to meet anyone who has lived a truly charmed life that was never touched by loss, sorrow, misfortune, etc. That being said, depending your perspective on life we could all be considered losers.
Yes I was touches by those things, but my "charmed life" gave me the balance and positivity to set them aside and move on to be what I could be.
Baseball manager Tony LaRussa, after losing a game on a bad call by an umpire, said "You have to be good enough to win despite the bad calls".
I don’t know why people have to be thought of as “winners” or losers....
I think it is because our national culture had traditionally seen life in those terms, and behind this is the foundational Christian religious culture which sees people as saved or damned.
I prefer fortunate and not so fortunate. What if you’re a winner and don’t share your good fortunes with those not so fortunate, what does that make you?
We support my MIL 100 financially. I could take the view that she is preventing us from retiring. That’s a glass half empty. I prefer to be extremely thankful that we have the means, we both love our jobs and it would be awful to live so well while allowing her to live on literally rice and beans.
No. Neither. No one loses in everything and no one wins in everything. Age has nothing to do with it.
Pretty much hits it for me. I've won some things, lost some things. Haven't ever really sat down and tried to calculate if I won more often than I lost. I am aware that my life so far could have gone better, but it could have gone worse too.
After, say, 50, or in retirement, does it make sense to consider yourself and others winners or losers in life?
Question bothers me.
What is a loser, anyway? Someone who has never done anything much?
Drug addict? Or someone, like myself, who has not achieved their life goals and expectations
Such as marriage, or admirable LTR, career job satisfaction? I have not achieved that, having failed to get really good well paying jobs--- and love. Only lost love.
Some say loners and weirdos are losers (unfairly) and some
say if you lost all your money, bankrupt. Not to mention criminal types.
What makes you a winner? Big success, nice family?
This is bound and determined by culture because western values differ from the poorest nations.
Does happiness make you a winner? What you think?
I don't think this way (judging who is a "winner" and who is a "loser") at age 52, and have not at any age so far. I can't imagine that I will suddenly begin at some point.
The worst things that have happened to me, years later, make great stretchers when told before a dying fire, and we laugh at them now. Learned something from them all, too.
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