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somethingtrue Vice Captain
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 Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:24 pm
What does it mean to fail at life? Not in the grand sense of the phrase (dying alone, no one attending your funeral) but in smaller, perhaps more sarcastic occurances such as "Everyone knows that you take 5th Ave, not 6th, to get to Whole Foods! You fail at life!"
Do you fail at life when you don't know a bit of information that, by your age, you should know? Would a twenty year old who doesn't know the difference between jam and jelly fail at life, while a twelve year old who lacks the same knowledge be a novice? If a nine year old knows the difference between jam and jelly does that make him or her a professional?
What other pieces of knowledge would be an example of how at younger ages one would be a novice for not knowing, and at older ages one would "fail at life?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:38 pm
Well...failing at life is a bit harsh. I just think that everyone has such different experiences in life that it's perfectly understandable when someone doesn't know the difference between jam & jelly (there's a difference? lol ). I mean that would be like laughing at someone when they said they hurt their "bum"...I mean it's cute (to me anyway) but it doesn't mean they've failed at life just because they don't say behind or something else, or saying their a failure because they don't know what Target or Walmart is....did somebody say you failed at life because you didn't know where some place was? rolleyes Not very nice.
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