Joined: 25 Aug 2013 Age: 66 Gender: Male Posts: 34,468 Location: Long Island, New York
07 Dec 2017, 7:26 am
It can be tough. The problem is we judge success and acheivements by NT standards and it may not be right for us. Sort of like judgeing the basketball abiltities of a person who is very short by NBA standards.
Since we are programmed since birth to judge ourselves by NT values it is difficult to figure out what is it the you as an individual truly want and what we have been brainwashed to want.
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Joined: 7 May 2016 Age: 38 Gender: Female Posts: 2,744 Location: U.S.
11 Dec 2017, 3:51 pm
^Why do you say that?
I feel it's hard to predict what someone will achieve. Things can change a lot. That's what I've experienced. I've been bad at predicting my own future. Other people have sometimes had more insight than me.
Joined: 30 Dec 2016 Age: 24 Gender: Male Posts: 271 Location: Netherlands
11 Dec 2017, 4:10 pm
Tader wrote:
but your age 17 atleast it showing how can you be burden. I am 25 i die alone , i achieved nothing.
I think that makes two of us. I dropped out of school 3 times total. And I now spend most of my time on my laptop. I don't have a job, friends or a high school degree. Age doesn't make you more or less of a burden. How much resources you use does (especially time). Kids in that sense are more of a burden. Ofcourse parents have higher expectations when you are older, but expectations and dissapointment don't equal more burden. Parents just have to lower their expectations and we all good.
Joined: 2 Dec 2016 Age: 46 Gender: Female Posts: 260 Location: England
12 Dec 2017, 2:01 am
Speaking as a parent, I think my kids are annoying, a burden, and a general pain in the ass. However, I love them to bits and wouldn't change them for anything in the world.
Don't ever give up. You may be giving them things you don't even know. You may yet have something to achieve. Yes, there are tough times, but it can get a lot better.
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