Posted by Shadowplayers721 on August 9, 2004, at 23:35:13
In reply to Bootstrap? Bootstrap Method?, posted by 64bowtie on August 9, 2004, at 2:49:17
topic? ----"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get along with your life"
"Is bootstrap a valuable label to you, or a derogation of my intentions, or something else, or nothing at all?"
What I actually think the statement came from and means?....
I think this was an old statement made in the day when people were forced to do hard labor to make their earnings. So, they had to put on their work clothes and boots to go out in the fields to do a hard days work from sun up to sun down. Your life depended on your animals, field, and labors. Some people still live like this.
I take the meaning of the statement as you do what you got to do to live
Now, is it valuable. hmmmmmm It makes me think, "What are the things/people/ideas that I am living by or on to get me through life. What are my so called "boot straps"?
Do I think you are derogative of your own intentions? Well, I don't know. What are your intentions?:)
Does that statement mean something else or nothing at all? All it means to me is what I said up above.
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