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Originally Posted by kane
This is actually an interesting post to me. When I was 18 years old I was working at Radio Shack and I hated it. I also felt kind of trapped there.
There was a guy that came in regularly and bought little parts. He dressed nice, had a nice car and appeared to be a pretty successful guy. One day we were talking and he tells me that he worked at Radio shack when he was my age and it gave him a good base to go on and do other things with.
That was almost like a light bulb going off in my head.......
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I think this is a fascinating thing about human behavior. I have some rather unconventional beliefs on why we are what we are. But its interesting to note that someone can either live a miserable life or full filling life by just making a simple choice. .. by just looking at the same problem a little differently. Most people for a large variety of reasons won't. There are those who eventually will, no matter what horrible suffering they are going through. There are those who turn tragedy into that defining and trans formative moment in their life and those who will turn it into the thing that destroys their lives.
Everything is just a matter of perspective. Everything. That perspective can change in a heartbeat and a person can completely transform their life. It can be witnessing a single event, it can be hearing a lyric in a song, it can be reading a single sentence. A truth about how we perceive things as individuals is that there really is no good and bad.. there is only how we perceive things and what we CHOOSE to do with that information. A perfect example are phobias. An event happens. An irrational fear is developed. A person then goes through life being afraid of the wrong thing at the wrong time. How do people get over phobias? They eventually say "fuck this.. this is stupid, this is ruining my life" and more often than not, its as simple as that. A simple change in perspective and a simple change in how they start viewing that behavior. You had that moment... you learned from it. You began to place yourself at cause and you built the life you wanted. Others.... well.... we need ditch diggers too so its quite the conundrum.