When you feel life handed you a bad deck

[El Toro]

I was just saying that the guy sat in jail all his life and yet achieved his dream. Only using that part.

Obviously your "truth" got in the way of a good story.

"My" truth, dear sir, was obtained from growing up IN South Africa during the years of the ANC being banned. On a regular basis throughout my youth, there were television, radio, and newspaper reports of car bombs being set off by the terrorist ANC, supermaket bombs being detonated, bombs going off in sports stadiums, and mostly with civilian loss of life. All sanctioned, and even being ordered, by this faux hero you obsequiously fawn over. The truth is the truth.

[Enigma]

Tommy;
It's posts like yours that make life worth living!
EDIT: You actually GO to the gym? Fuck? Do they have a grog shop at the gym? I might go too!

[tommy525]

Tommy;
It's posts like yours that make life worth living!
EDIT: You actually GO to the gym? Fuck? Do they have a grog shop at the gym? I might go too!

yesyes of course I went to the gym. Why it was right across the street from my apt complex. I had membership there for three whole years and i actually went at least once a month I will have you know. And i stayed at least 20mins total in there

I even used a machine or two on occasion.

[Enigma]

Ehem, that piece of advice is regarding the fact that we are all captains of our existence, and that is more than enough on our plates, to go out and start "saving" other people. You can give advice, show them the way, but you cannot make them change their mindset.

As to poverty, my dears, my mother sold a lot of bread door by door, my dad worked in a banana plantation up to when he was 17. Many of their brothers/sisters decided to stay home, don't make an effort, why, they would be always poor. Some had their dreams crushed. Many had opportunities and let them pass, even my parents. But my parents were lucky enough to go to college, with great effort, and got us all college education as a tool, the best they could. But they keep on helping other people, especially those family members who were the proverbial grasshopper and spent their youth's money in women and booze and now are old, sick and can't work anymore. I personally resent the fact that these grasshoppers think that it is my parents obligation as they are better off, but I do not think "oh, they had the same opportunity". Not really. There is an inner motivation and an outside factor -a mentor, a job at the right time- that come to play together to make things work.

Some other day I'll tell you the story of the ones who migrated to the US.

as was said by me mud mates back in Viet, "Fucking A"