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Originally Posted by jwb
It's very simple, really. I don't argue we live in a real meritocracy, but merit does matter. I'm not saying choices determine everything, but choices do matter. I'm not saying the system is that great. But I have no control over the system.
All my failures I can trace directly back to choices I made. Any progress I've made in the last 2 or so years, I can trace directly back to choices I made. So basically the system is what it is but the choices you make will affect your place in it.
Everything I've experienced tells me this is true. Both my bad decisions and my good ones. If I take the attitude you and OH are preaching I really have no reason not to go back to my old lifestyle. And I just know intuitively that's a bad idea.
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I think your experiences should teach you that there's something about you that is incongruous with society and which will always leave you an outsider and judging yourself by society's standards will inevitably lead you to hating yourself.