Am I a success? (756 hits)
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Submitted by Squirrelly Girl (View user info) at 2009-04-13 18:34:10 EDT
Blood tests. Clogged ports. Body rejecting old treatments. New treatments working but taking it's toll. Random thoughts race through my head with more urgency than transvestites at a Plus-Sized store sale.
I'm broken today - more so than I have been in months, maybe even years. I found myself entering into an online battle between a complete stranger over who had a more successful life, he or I. And even though I fought for myself, I didn't feel it. I'd type the words "Happily Married" "Tons of friends and family" and even "More money than most" but they all felt empty and tasted bitter.
Am I successful? What have I accomplished? Surely nothing that I dreamt of in my youth. I'm not a famous actress with a star on the Walk of Fame. I'm not a published author with dozens of offers to turn my work into blockbuster movies starring Hollywood's elite. I don't own a multimillion dollar mansion in the South of France, another in the hills of Ireland. Hell, I've only ever left the country once and that was only to the British Virgin Islands. Not exactly the "Backpacking around Europe" I had dreamed of while sitting in 3rd period Chemistry all those years ago.
When I was at the Hospice sooo many people had the now infamous "Bucket List". That wonderful index of things one wishes to accomplish before they die. Our counselors frowned on the sharing of said lists because they seemed to only cause a deeper depression for those who hadn't completed even a third of their lists and probably never would... being all close to death and all.
I personally have never made one of these lists. I've never written out, in detail, what I wanted to accomplish with my life. I've had fantasies, naturally, about things I thought would be fun. Traveling Europe as mentioned, seeing the Pyramids, having a threesome, getting high and experiencing the "munchies", meeting Tim Curry... so many dreams that once seemed possible and now... now not so much.
So I ask you these two things Uber: Do you consider yourself a success? And if not, what one thing on your Bucket list - if any - would help you feel like you have accomplished more than what you all ready have?
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Submitted by johnny.b.dumb (user info) at 2009-04-14 23:29:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
way to go, squirelly! Also, you can make a prick happy non-vicariously.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-04-14 22:27:23 EDT (#)
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Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2009-04-14 14:08:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
A Bucket List is like admitting youre beaten. I never made one, I just intended to live.
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Corporal Perkins: Well, Captain, I've got to admire your balls.
Captain Blackadder: Perhaps later.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2009-04-14 14:08:22 EDT (#)
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A Bucket List is like admitting youre beaten. I never made one, I just intended to live.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-04-14 13:57:02 EDT (#)
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Don't make me happy, make yourself happy. I'm sure dredging on and on about how deathly ill you are makes you very happy, especially when you tell a bunch of faceless losers about it to garner sympathy in a vein hope that if you get enough e-hugs you won't die. Yes, I'm sure that makes you very happy.
I'm trying not to be a prick but plain honest.
Submitted by Squirrelly_Girl (user info) at 2009-04-14 12:25:33 EDT (#)
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Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-04-14 12:15:56 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Squirrelly_Girl (user info) at 2009-04-14 10:50:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-04-14 08:43:50 EDT (#)
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Why do you post such intimate details about your personal life on a public forum, where rape, making fun of babies, etc. are jokes?
Are you expecting sympathy here?
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Sympathy? No... I get pleanty of sympathy from real people. I prefer the honest answers and entertaining banter I read here on Uber.
Why... do you feel sympathy for me? Are you gonna buy me a Hallmark Card with a sad little bunny wearing a bandaid over it's ear?
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No, but I'm honestly tired of hearing about your illness. I certainly don't think I'm gonna miss you when you die but that's just honest, because let's face it, you aren't going to miss me (partly because you'll be gone before me, but for hypothetical purposes...) when I die. The banter is entertaining, I agree. But, repeatedly posting stories about your illness has lead me to believe you are throwing a giant pity party for yourself. Sure, you'll deny it because it would be faux pas if you were ACTUALLY doing that.
But for the sake of our fun little banter on ubersite, I enjoy reading (most of the time) what you write when it doesn't mention your illness.
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Then, from this moment on, I will never mention my illness again. That way I can cross of the "Make a prick happy" of my "list".
Hugs!!!
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-04-14 12:15:56 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Squirrelly_Girl (user info) at 2009-04-14 10:50:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-04-14 08:43:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Why do you post such intimate details about your personal life on a public forum, where rape, making fun of babies, etc. are jokes?
Are you expecting sympathy here?
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Sympathy? No... I get pleanty of sympathy from real people. I prefer the honest answers and entertaining banter I read here on Uber.
Why... do you feel sympathy for me? Are you gonna buy me a Hallmark Card with a sad little bunny wearing a bandaid over it's ear?
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No, but I'm honestly tired of hearing about your illness. I certainly don't think I'm gonna miss you when you die but that's just honest, because let's face it, you aren't going to miss me (partly because you'll be gone before me, but for hypothetical purposes...) when I die. The banter is entertaining, I agree. But, repeatedly posting stories about your illness has lead me to believe you are throwing a giant pity party for yourself. Sure, you'll deny it because it would be faux pas if you were ACTUALLY doing that.
But for the sake of our fun little banter on ubersite, I enjoy reading (most of the time) what you write when it doesn't mention your illness.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-04-14 11:43:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
MLWaI pretty much spend our time as we choose to. I suppose that indicates some measure of success.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2009-04-14 11:05:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
With what you've already gone through, and are currently going through, the fact that you maintain a sense of humour and playfulness makes you a great success.
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2009-04-14 10:57:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Are you gonna buy me a Hallmark Card with a sad little bunny wearing a bandaid over it's ear?
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I WAS but you just RUINED IT.
fuck.
Submitted by Squirrelly_Girl (user info) at 2009-04-14 10:50:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-04-14 08:43:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Why do you post such intimate details about your personal life on a public forum, where rape, making fun of babies, etc. are jokes?
Are you expecting sympathy here?
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Sympathy? No... I get pleanty of sympathy from real people. I prefer the honest answers and entertaining banter I read here on Uber.
Why... do you feel sympathy for me? Are you gonna buy me a Hallmark Card with a sad little bunny wearing a bandaid over it's ear?
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-04-14 09:50:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Boring amount of over-telling below.
Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2009-04-14 09:46:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I had chemistry in 3rd period. Mrs. Barlieb. We had to make moles (she gave us a pattern and we had to make a stuffed animole, har har) based on the periodic table of the elements and dress them up depending on the element we had. I had Molybdenum. I said my mole's name was Moly B. Denum (WOW! CREATIVE!) and dressed "her" up in a mini jean jacket.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-04-14 09:15:37 EDT (#)
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Here's a tip for success:
Stop pissing away your time on Ubersite like the rest of us mush-brained neanderthals, and do the things you want to do despite everyone else. Sometimes do them TO spite everyone else. Have your threesome, smoke your dope, jump off a mountain on a bike, skydive, rent a prostitute, whatever it takes, etc.
But quit talking about it and do it.
It's one thing to dream, and another thing entirely to whine about not completing things you still have time to do.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-04-14 08:43:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Why do you post such intimate details about your personal life on a public forum, where rape, making fun of babies, etc. are jokes?
Are you expecting sympathy here?
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2009-04-14 07:58:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
NOT EVEN CLOSE, Im one of those people that assumes I will never live an easy life.
Submitted by johnny.b.dumb (user info) at 2009-04-14 07:42:56 EDT (#)
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The problem with this question is the assumption that your criteria for success won't change as you grow up.Fact is, that's just not true for most people I've known for any length of time. ( if you do grow up. You keep dropping hints about disease. Not that I care, but you'll get loads more respect if you shut your trap about how tragic your life has been. )
Getting high or having a threesome were never earmarks of success for me. ( munchies-chemo-o-how-i'd-like-to-have-an-appetite) I've never had a threesome ( despite one of my exes demands for same) nor would I consider it now. I like getting high & do it frequently enough for it not to be anything out of the ordinary. When I was young, travel was something I thought was a mark of success, but now its just something that I do & having to do it devalues it. Europe is nice enough, but its expensive so spare yourself the experience of sleeping in backpackers & hostels with scummy, thieving trash. Like the States, EU is a place you shouldn't go to without adequate resources & time. I wouldn't know about Tim Curry, but if you're a girl, he'll have about as much use out of you as Paul Lynne, Liberace or Michael Jackson would. The Pyramids. Man, did you miss out. 45C heat, dirty wog guides, nasty camels. Egypt is not a place for an unaccompanied woman who isn't Cynthia Rothrock or for one who minds being groped by filthy fucking beggars. fact.
Having said that, there are plenty of places that are worth going to, reasonably safe & inexpensive, problem is that (like Myself) they're on the other side of the globe. If you haven't the time & money, what's the use of moaning about it? Are you going to feel better because you shared your misery with people who couldn't give a rats ass & only acknowledge you out of narcissistic need to make themselves look compassionate? Not bloody likely. I'll tell you the same thing I told my bud who was dying of a nasty disease: " Quit fucking begging. Get a fucking gun if you have to & do what you need"
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2009-04-14 07:08:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
What can I say, You got me. I love cock.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-04-14 06:24:09 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2009-04-14 11:18:23 BST (#)
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Success is being able to wake up in the morning and smile. Everything else is superfluous.
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Hey, Spams gay!
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2009-04-14 06:18:23 EDT (#)
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Success is being able to wake up in the morning and smile. Everything else is superfluous.
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2009-04-14 05:58:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I used to have huge hopes and dreams, slowly they got damaged, sometimes achieved or down scaled. I am not a sucess, not in the eyes of my peers or family, nor in my own eyes. I am however achieving, I have my own flat and I can pay all the bills (most of the time) ,I'm holding down my job and setting up my career. It looks like I will pass this year of study with distinction. But no one has ever concisered me a sucess.
Then a man who I hold in the highest regard,the kind of man who I have always felt privaliged to call a friend, fell inlove with me. Sometimes he looks at me in such a way, I stand taller for the rest of the week. When he looks at me like that I know I'm a sucess. I have this mans heart and I wouldn't ever trade it for anything.
Submitted by CarterPFly (user info) at 2009-04-14 05:18:51 EDT (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-04-13 18:44:31 EDT (#)
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get your ass in gear and email tim curry and ask to meet him.
Tomorrow fly to europe, shag two guys in the nearest bar, smoke dope with them and nick their wallets and fly to see the pyramids, sorted.
^^^^^ It really IS that simple...
I think terminal illness gives anyone Carte Blanch to do anything they like, I mean whats the worst that can happen?
Submitted by johnny.b.dumb (user info) at 2009-04-14 04:38:49 EDT (#)
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Curry's only role was frankenfurter, everything else he's ever done ( that I've seen ) was weak. I liked The Shout, but he was shit in that as well.
Submitted by reginajacks (user info) at 2009-04-14 03:02:25 EDT (#)
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i saw the guy who took over the king arthur role in spamalot from tim curry outside the theatre before the show but i didn't know it was him until after i saw the show and then it was too late to say hey look it's king arthur.
i did talk to the guy who does voices on the simpsons snd used to be married to helen hunt after the show but he just stared at my boobs until i asked him how old he was and he just laughed and walked away.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-04-13 23:51:22 EDT (#)
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idkmybffjill?
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2009-04-13 22:46:27 EDT (#)
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have we found that she's method's alter yet?
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2009-04-13 22:40:53 EDT (#)
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I am a work in progress, and for the most part, I am okay with that.
Submitted by SilentRenegade (user info) at 2009-04-13 20:36:25 EDT (#)
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I will admit that I have not reached all of my dreams and the more goals and items on a list that I complete the more that I begin to think of and the list never gets shorter it merely rotates around new and fresh goals. Some that will also never be completed. I have a steady paycheck, a wonderful girlfriend and every once in awhile I spoil myself with a grand adventure to some place crazy like riding a 50cc scooter across the Korean peninsula http://www.ubersite.com/m/121832 but nobody ever had everything they want. It's more that you have to be happy with what you have accomplished and continue to accomplish those goals that are realistic. You might get to light a candle on a lion's tooth while your head is in it's mouth, or crash a helicopter into a building and survive by jumping out at the right time and grabbing onto the flag pole on the next building but it is very very very unlikely.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-04-13 20:36:01 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-04-13 20:34:20 EDT (#)
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I'm a hige fucking success...too successful to be "hanging around Uber" but I do, for some sick reason.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2009-04-13 20:32:50 EDT (#)
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Well, success is rather relative now isn't it?
So, in the spirit of context, you are likely far more successful than this lady:
http://tweakers.net/ext/f/ewVdY8TOQa12OYfLsE0eYQYK/full.jpg
Submitted by SkullBiter (user info) at 2009-04-13 20:22:23 EDT (#)
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NO success for me, I am fail.
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2009-04-13 20:02:09 EDT (#)
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Shut the fuck up, cumdumpster.
Submitted by Yozz (user info) at 2009-04-13 18:47:45 EDT (#)
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Let me help a bit with the Tim Curry thing...
http://www.ubersite.com/m/119522
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-04-13 18:44:31 EDT (#)
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get your ass in gear and email tim curry and ask to meet him.
Tomorrow fly to europe, shag two guys in the nearest bar, smoke dope with them and nick their wallets and fly to see the pyramids, sorted.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2009-04-13 18:43:16 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Yozz (user info) at 2009-04-13 18:39:45 EDT (#)
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Hey SNARK!
http://www.ubersite.com/m/121835#2884038
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hahahahahahaha bastard.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2009-04-13 18:40:46 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Yozz (user info) at 2009-04-13 18:39:00 EDT (#)
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I consider myself HIGHLY successful - but I set my standards pretty low. For example, today I would consider myself a success if I do not take a hostage.
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Baby steps my friend. Maybe just take someone hostage for only a few minutes today, or if that fails, don't send the ransom note. By the end of the month the body count will be much lower than usual. I promise.
Submitted by Yozz (user info) at 2009-04-13 18:39:45 EDT (#)
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Hey SNARK!
http://www.ubersite.com/m/121835#2884038
Submitted by Yozz (user info) at 2009-04-13 18:39:00 EDT (#)
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I consider myself HIGHLY successful - but I set my standards pretty low. For example, today I would consider myself a success if I do not take a hostage.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2009-04-13 18:38:22 EDT (#)
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Is your success/failure at life a measure of what you have done and the things you have or is it a measure of how you have affected others a la Frank Capra?