(December 18, 2012 at 1:54 am)Voltron Wrote: Yes, one must get off their ass and take advantage of resources and opportunities available to them for things to happen.
Simply believing in yourself will not do the trick.
That is a nice idea. But in reality especially in an open market system it is STILL a ratio and you will have a smaller number reach the top, some that get to the middle and some that stay at the bottom.
I hate it when celebrities such as rich people, actors, musicians and sports stars say "you can do it if you try".
You can try, that part is true, and if that makes one happy, sure, give it a shot. But no one ever talks about the odds or even wants to face them. I think that kind of delusion can cause severe depression and home problems with many people.
Woopie Goldburg said it best on "Inside The Actors Studio" when an audience member asked her if she(the audience member) could get where she was at Woopie basically said "You are all capable of being great actors, but most will NOT end up sitting where I am now".
I think that is coming from our consumption society where people treat life as a script rather than a range. We never teach enough people that no matter what you do or want to do, while trying to do it, you should, we never teach them about the odds and end up setting them up for total failure and teach them that if they dont succeed they are deadbeat loosers. Whoopie probably saved a few lives in that audience by arming them with the truth.
Junior Sau(NFL player) killed himself because he felt empty about his career ending. Richard Jenny(comedian) killed himself because he hadn't gotten that big Sitcom like Seinfeld.
And many domestic murders are a result of feelings of failure be it over money and or relationships.
Far too often we teach scripts rather than teach people to be happy no matter what they want to do and arm them with reality no matter what they chose to do.
It is OK to chase after a dream. It is not ok to treat others as clones or like failures because they dont get to where you or at or may not want what you have.
