Gould,

I have a confession to make. I am a self-absorbed individual who has failed
at numerous endeavors, selling cars, boats now as a free-lance writer.
Sometimes I feel like I have failed in everything I have tried. What
bothers me the most, is I think I might have been successful if I could have
set objectives and followed them. Instead, I just frittered away my time,
wandering from one job to another, changing jobs and careers as often as
some change underwear. When I look into the mirror I see an old man
balding, with a beard who is at the end of his life, and is still trying to
find myself. I am a pathetic human being, who feels he could have been a
contender, but now am just a failure.

I feel much better for making that confession.




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Stranger still.........

You read something into a post that was clearly not stated.

When I clarify that what you are complaining about is clearly not
stated, you then shift into
"spin, spin, spin"?

Would you be just all around happier if I agreed that my self criticism
was a personal attack?

You still have not addressed the central question, JimH- why would
anybody suspect that my self criticism was a personal attack?

Sing all you like. Hope you carry a tune better than you do an
argument. :-)