Posted by Racer on January 14, 2006, at 12:30:22
In reply to Re: More of the same. » Racer, posted by Poet on January 14, 2006, at 11:31:04
>It's good thing there isn't a TV reality show *The Biggest Failure* or you and I and too many other posters would be competing for a title we really don't deserve. Well, I do, but the rest of you don't.
How about we share that title, you and me? Because I *will not* give it to you. You don't deserve it, anymore than anyone else here.
We all just think we do. None of us do.
My mother used to say that the unexamined life was not worth living, but I think that's trite. I think that we live lives we *must* examine, in order to survive them, and it's that examination that makes us feel like failures. If our lives had been such that we could simply have lived them, we probably would never have explored whether or not we were successful in them.
Mind you, I still have a lot of the Bad Stuff goinhg on, but I hate thinking that there's a Failed Poet out there. In my view -- which is right, on accounta I'm so smart -- there's only a hurt and frightened Poet, who can't quite -- yet -- recognize that it's not a failure to be hurt or frightened.
Be well, Poet. You're hella successful in my book, just for continuing to try. (And for liking "The Horn Blows At Midnight.")
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