http://modernsophist.com/in-response-to-a-blog-about-overcoming-failure/ Where Style Overcomes A Complete Lack Of Niche Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:23:08 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://modernsophist.com/in-response-to-a-blog-about-overcoming-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Lindsey Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:51:24 +0000 http://modernsophist.com/?p=73#comment-16 See now the problem here seems to me not that most people flit about creating intangible or ridiculous goals for themselves, but that many of us are ridiculously spoiled for choice. I am fairly certain that having made slightly different choices earlier in life that I could now be a famous actress or a damn succesful lawyer. Instead I toil away at my underpaid job in advertising hoping that things will come right too scared to do anything radical to change things. Not that I want to be a lawyer anymore, but it does plague me that I could have been, and that if I had been that I would be able to buy that lovely eames chair I saw on craigslist. Also, that I am somehow failing by not living up to a certain amount of potential. That one is really the kicker. It's been haunting me since my 3rd grade report card. See now the problem here seems to me not that most people flit about creating intangible or ridiculous goals for themselves, but that many of us are ridiculously spoiled for choice. I am fairly certain that having made slightly different choices earlier in life that I could now be a famous actress or a damn succesful lawyer. Instead I toil away at my underpaid job in advertising hoping that things will come right too scared to do anything radical to change things. Not that I want to be a lawyer anymore, but it does plague me that I could have been, and that if I had been that I would be able to buy that lovely eames chair I saw on craigslist. Also, that I am somehow failing by not living up to a certain amount of potential. That one is really the kicker. It’s been haunting me since my 3rd grade report card.

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