Fantastique wrote:
Aestu, in our world to be successful by any means you need to be intelligent and have the paperwork to back it up. That, or be extremely lucky. Hoping for the latter is a very unintelligent thing to do. Therefore, working hard, having good grades, etc will make someone successful. You like evidence, yes? How about the hundreds of thousands of doctors? Lawyers? Leaders? They are all successful (as defined by the majority, which in this case, rules).
The fact that you are okay with being the kind of person that I will one day wipe my ass with does not make it any less pathetic. You, sir, are pathetic. How's that for simply put?
As I was standing on the tram, typing a response into my webphone, a hand cut across my field of vision. I at first thought it was a blind person flailing, but looking up I saw it was my sociology professor, some woman with a doctorate. She is a California native, as she will tell you every ten seconds. I don't have a very high opinion of her intelligence or wisdom, but because I have no reason to be unfriendly, I am friendly to her as she is to me.
We engaged in conversation and talked about a surprising number of crossed paths we had. She advised me on postgrad progression and talked disparagingly about her own son who graduated to her couch. It was a civil conversation, although in the back of my mind I was vaguely worried that I would have to scorn her. We said goodbye and I got off.
idk, I think that is a pretty impartial judgement - a proud mother, doctorate and professor vouching for me what was denied her own son...
If I were you, I would not believe my story. But if you do what common sense suggests and believe this to be a fabrication, that is fine by me, because it is in fact true.
Anyway, I'd like to know who you are and what you do that gives you such supreme confidence about your future.
You mention as examples of success two narrow, sterotyped sorts of professionals, and the third example isn't even valid. Richard Nixon was an SOB and literally spent his entire life bitter at the Ivy League types that outpaced him academically and were accepted into the elite law firms that denied him.
Time will tell.
