Comments on: My Life Is Good But I’m Worried Yours is Better http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/21/my-life-is-good-but-im-worried-yours-is-better/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:11:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: SomethingBetter http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/21/my-life-is-good-but-im-worried-yours-is-better/#comment-186540 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:24:14 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8574#comment-186540 #93 I highly suggest that you try out MLIA instead. Lmao

]]> By: wvmmrh http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/21/my-life-is-good-but-im-worried-yours-is-better/#comment-183556 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:51:05 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8574#comment-183556 i’m 54,have a strange wart on my inner thigh that receives broadcast transmissions,i own a jack russell terrier that died last year,i gave birth to twins last fall..and i’m a guy..got my leg caught in a pencil sharpener at work so one leg is now shorter than the others and my baby does the hanky panky./

but i’m happy.

]]> By: Tim Keating http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/21/my-life-is-good-but-im-worried-yours-is-better/#comment-165962 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:41:30 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8574#comment-165962 Col. Sanders was 65 when he opened his first KFC.

I’m still holding onto hope.

]]> By: Ben http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/21/my-life-is-good-but-im-worried-yours-is-better/#comment-165772 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:34:51 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8574#comment-165772 I was feeling bad about things I’ve missed out on over the past few years and worried about being shut out of careers that I was interested in. Reading these comments makes me feel better, at 23 I guess I still have time to change my path.

]]> By: Phred http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/21/my-life-is-good-but-im-worried-yours-is-better/#comment-165739 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:38:51 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8574#comment-165739 I was 40 when I began medical school. I’m 45 now. Twenty five years ago I was a drunk frat boy with bad grades. Twenty years ago I worked in DC as a briefcase holder for a well-known politician. Ten years ago I was a successful but unhappy corporate executive in NY. This year I finished med school and am working as an MD about 10 minutes from a beach. Somewhere along the way I got married and two awesome kids. I’ve always been amazed at what life will let you get away with if you ignore convention and act like you know what you’re doing. Life’s not easy, but sometimes it’s fun.

]]> By: JennyJenny http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/21/my-life-is-good-but-im-worried-yours-is-better/#comment-165734 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:17:21 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8574#comment-165734 Good lord. I hope what you said isn’t true. If it is, I should put a gun to my head now and just be done with it.

]]> By: kurt9 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/21/my-life-is-good-but-im-worried-yours-is-better/#comment-165732 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:54:54 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8574#comment-165732 The only effect that being 40+ has had on me is to reinforce my interest in and support for the development of the SENS anti-aging therapies.

http://sens.org/

I refuse to buy into the defeatist world-view that the aging process cannot be defeated.

]]> By: MDTaz http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/21/my-life-is-good-but-im-worried-yours-is-better/#comment-165693 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:01:48 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8574#comment-165693 I read Kreider’s post last week and I didn’t think it was pessimistic or fatalist. I thought it was honest and candid. The issues that percolate with mid-life awareness are complex and multi-layered – not so simply navigated. He put it all out there, rather elegantly.

Just because we think, from time to time, about the paths not chosen doesn’t mean we want to take them. I suppose navel gazing to some might be thoughtful self-awareness or introspection to another. It’s good for the soul, now and then.

]]> By: Marko Kloos http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/21/my-life-is-good-but-im-worried-yours-is-better/#comment-165688 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:53:23 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8574#comment-165688 You’re talking about Lady Luck, right?

]]> By: NedLudd http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/21/my-life-is-good-but-im-worried-yours-is-better/#comment-165683 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:41:24 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8574#comment-165683 “I envy no one, as my wife and I did it all ourselves.”

Really? No good fortune along the way? You were born in abject poverty, got a dread disease, were in a serious accident, you were robbed, one of your kids was born with a serious disability and everything was still turned out great?

It’s only the stupidity the modern world that leads people to think they are in good shape because they are smart and able–winners at the “game” of life. In a wiser age people knew they were mostly fortunate and gave thanks to a higher power than their own ego.

-NL

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