hopehope
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Post by hopehope on Jan 16, 2010 0:43:33 GMT -5
"If you haven't failed, you aren't trying hard enough."
reminding me of à twelve-step saying:
"If you like everyone you've met in AA, you're not going to enough meetings."
I hereby solicit tales of failure gone right -- the lost job, opportunity, boyfriend, life prospect, home -- whatever -- that left you better than it found you.
(I was offered à full-time job, which I didn't take. It was on the 103rd floor. Of the World Trade Center.)
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Post by bigtimetroubles on Jan 16, 2010 7:49:06 GMT -5
I had an opportunity with cash from a car accident to buy a duplex....I decided to get a car stereo instead with 10CD changer extra expensive in the 93-94 yrs that was in....I then lost my job...then I moved to new job on tropical island in south pacific ocean Guam...stayed for five years...loved every minute of it except the working part....
wow I am so glad you did not take that job HopeHope....wow scary....hugs btt
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Post by anonymoose on Jan 16, 2010 15:26:36 GMT -5
Almost got married right after high school...now he's on drugs, has been to jail, cheats on his current wife, has children all over the place, doesn't work and lives in his mom's basement. I'm thinkin' I dodged a bullet there...
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Post by 7sweetbabiesgranny on Jan 17, 2010 17:04:37 GMT -5
Been thinking about this a couple of days. I was fired many years ago, MUCH sobbing, etc for about 4 hours, then I remembered I HATED the job. It was being a caretaker (of all things!) In an apartment complex that was constantly being trashed. I was supposed to dust cobwebs, 3 floors up, HOW?  ? Vacume with a broken vacume cleaner. 6 months pregnant, blah blah, you get the picture. All this for less than 2 bucks an hour. New caretaker happened to be the managers good friend who'd just lost her job. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I learned that some very black looking clouds DO have silver linings. |
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hopehope
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Post by hopehope on Jan 21, 2010 0:10:20 GMT -5
bump
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Post by gettingsomewhere on Jan 21, 2010 9:28:22 GMT -5
thanks for bumping 'cos i would have missed this hopehope, and i cried when i read about your untaken job. will be back later. mind blank at the moment.
however this thread reminds me of one of my favourite theories of my very own....
"you are exactly where you are meant to be".
i believe this is the case no matter what difficulties we find ourselves in, there is always a reason for it and a benefit to it.
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Post by ponygirl on Jan 21, 2010 11:34:30 GMT -5
however this thread reminds me of one of my favourite theories of my very own.... "you are exactly where you are meant to be". i believe this is the case no matter what difficulties we find ourselves in, there is always a reason for it and a benefit to it. |
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Jan 21, 2010 11:42:31 GMT -5
-  hugs to ponygirl |
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toni
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Post by toni on Jan 21, 2010 17:51:41 GMT -5
I am twice divorced.
I am SO glad that marriage #1 ended, and fairly quickly. It was a mistake from the word "go".
Divorce #2? Still working on making peace with it.
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Post by gettingsomewhere on Jan 21, 2010 19:08:34 GMT -5
hugs ponygirl.
hang in there toni. my dad has just celebrated 22 years marriage with his third wife.
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Post by hopehope on Jan 22, 2010 2:22:45 GMT -5
There were a couple of reasons for not taking that job.
One was that on the hundred and third floor, the building swayed. You could feel it. It was supposed to -- part of the design, safety, etc. But it gave me the willies...
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Post by fluffernut - now Jannie on Jan 22, 2010 8:49:54 GMT -5
My fiance dumped me in June, by September I was datng my future husband. We've been Together 34 years, married 31. I had to go through getting dumped to find The Love of My Life.
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Post by shopgirl on Jan 22, 2010 14:39:06 GMT -5
Miss Hopehope: South Tower? Aon?
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Post by Fivecat on Jan 22, 2010 15:43:24 GMT -5
oh my hope! that is just chilling. seriously. chills running up and down my spine. Fivecat
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Post by ponygirl on Jan 22, 2010 16:30:25 GMT -5
Thank you, Lioness and GSW.  |
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