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20 Aug 2023, 10:50 am

That's disappointing I didn't do anything significant



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20 Aug 2023, 12:42 pm

Cool story.

What thing of significance do you want to accomplish in the remainder of your life? What are you doing to work towards achieving it?


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20 Aug 2023, 3:20 pm

Most men aged 25 haven’t. But many are on the right path. You are young. Don’t be discouraged by the outside world.



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20 Aug 2023, 3:22 pm

It’s hard to say what kind of impact we do or don’t make. A kind word can have a profound effect on someone at the right moment.


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20 Aug 2023, 5:33 pm

TwilightPrincess wrote:
It’s hard to say what kind of impact we do or don’t make. A kind word can have a profound effect on someone at the right moment.

This is so very true and something that continues to confuse me a bit. Sometimes just being a person in the right place at the right time can make a difference. And you don't always know.

I personally may have accidentally prevented a drive-by shooting by accident one morning going to work. I'll never be sure, I just remember the red car, and the gloves hand brandishing a pistol at a homeless person.

It wasn't something that I accomplished in the conventional sense, but it was something.



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20 Aug 2023, 5:59 pm

TwilightPrincess wrote:
It’s hard to say what kind of impact we do or don’t make. A kind word can have a profound effect on someone at the right moment.

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It is not possible to measure the size of an impact. Chaos theory. Not all impacts are immediate, visible, obvious, physical or quantitative

Also it is not possible to determine, what otherwise would have happened, if any particular person, were not to have been there, at that time (past conditional tense)



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20 Aug 2023, 6:02 pm

shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
TwilightPrincess wrote:
It’s hard to say what kind of impact we do or don’t make. A kind word can have a profound effect on someone at the right moment.

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It is not possible to measure the size of an impact.
I never said it was.

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Also it is not possible to determine, what otherwise would have happened, if any particular person, were not to have been there, at that time (past conditional tense)
I never said it was.

Remember that this is The Haven.


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20 Aug 2023, 6:12 pm

Why do you need to do anything significant?


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20 Aug 2023, 6:36 pm

What is significant to you? Is it getting a job, learning how to drive, fly over the ocean to visit a different country?


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20 Aug 2023, 6:41 pm

Sometimes just surviving your life experience can be quite profound to other people it seems , from what I have heard . But if anybody asks , i was not there I did not do it , It must of been someone that looked just like me. :oops:


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