What makes someone a failure at life?

Hercule Poirot · 13-03-2013 06:39PM

kidneyfan wrote: »

Hating disabled people makes someone a failure at life in my opinion.

Hating someone because they are disabled is of course very wrong. But just because someone is disabled it doesn't neccessarily make them automatically a nice person. It is perfectly acceptable to dislike, maybe even hate, a disabled person if they are have unlikable personalities imo.

seven_eleven · 13-03-2013 07:04PM

Fighting Irish wrote: »

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lol @ people who need to work to be happy(they're be bored otherwise :rolleyes:)

What if working is something a person enjoys? I love my work! Not every job is a boring 9-5 desk job, and I'm sure there are even people who love that kind of job too.

Duckjob · 13-03-2013 07:17PM

People who dont know how to aspire to better things while at the same time being contented by what they have today.

People who don't get that your life is nothing more and nothing less than what you make of it.

People who continually bitch about their jobs and live for the next coming weekend when they'll just go out and drink themselves into oblivion, and then rinse-repeat to next monday.

People who continually talk about emigrating in the tone of "I'm going to get away from this dump", as if their attitude isn't the problem and they'll magically become a happy person when they leave the country.

Fighting Irish · 13-03-2013 07:17PM

seven_eleven wrote: »

What if working is something a person enjoys? I love my work! Not every job is a boring 9-5 desk job, and I'm sure there are even people who love that kind of job too.

If you really love what you do that's fine

hardCopy · 13-03-2013 08:15PM

Using an iPad as a camera in public

darced · 13-03-2013 08:23PM

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IM0 · 13-03-2013 09:04PM

dying

Wabbit Ears · 13-03-2013 09:19PM

kidneyfan wrote: »

Hating disabled people makes someone a failure at life in my opinion.

Its more of a life failure to believe that you have to like someone just because they have a disability.

I'd have agreed if you said, 'Hating people for being disabled' but thats not what you meant at all.

kowloon · 13-03-2013 09:39PM

WumBuster wrote: »

People who use the term 'failure' as a part of their everyday vocabulary.

Anyone involved in reliability testing

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I Luv Crysis · 13-03-2013 09:43PM

kidneyfan wrote: »

Hating disabled people makes someone a failure at life in my opinion.

What if they use their disability to create a social media storm out of nothing tarnishing the reputation of a specific business and causing someone to lose their job?

Duckjob · 13-03-2013 09:45PM

I Luv Crysis wrote: »

What if they use their disability to create a social media storm out of nothing tarnishing the reputation of a specific business and causing someone to lose their job?

Oooooohhhhh. Topical.

kowloon · 13-03-2013 10:03PM

I wonder if quite a few people don't choose other groups as failures in order to make themselves feel better and prop themselves up.
Maybe it's worth taking a stab at what a success is? Is it personal goals? Is it producing offspring? Is it improving the lives of others?

If it's personal goals then the whole idea goes out the window and success or failure are entirely at the mercy of the individuals opinion.

Offspring is more easily judged, and would make me a total failure.

Improving the lives of others? By that criteria most of us are dead weight. If I fell down the stairs and snapped my neck in two today I can honestly say that the world would be a better place. Only a tiny handful of people would miss me and the rest of the population would have a tiny, tiny little bit more to go around. That tiny, tiny bit being my proportionally larger share than the rest of the planet because I live well.

ToddyDoody · 14-03-2013 12:22AM

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

What would you consider a failure?

Not being me. Not being like me. Not as ridiculous as it sounds, both grandiose and humble at the same time. Goodnight Vienna. (Boards readers up and down the country)

ashers222 · 14-03-2013 12:32AM

kowloon wrote: »

I wonder if quite a few people don't choose other groups as failures in order to make themselves feel better and prop themselves up.
Maybe it's worth taking a stab at what a success is? Is it personal goals? Is it producing offspring? Is it improving the lives of others?

If it's personal goals then the whole idea goes out the window and success or failure are entirely at the mercy of the individuals opinion.

Offspring is more easily judged, and would make me a total failure.

Improving the lives of others? By that criteria most of us are dead weight. If I fell down the stairs and snapped my neck in two today I can honestly say that the world would be a better place. Only a tiny handful of people would miss me and the rest of the population would have a tiny, tiny little bit more to go around. That tiny, tiny bit being my proportionally larger share than the rest of the planet because I live well.

I think what your getting at is success is subjective. Or relative.

feargale · 14-03-2013 12:59AM

kowloon wrote: »

I wonder if quite a few people don't choose other groups as failures in order to make themselves feel better and prop themselves up.

Yes, as Ashers says, it's subjective, but so is much in life.

kowloon wrote: »

Maybe it's worth taking a stab at what a success is? Is it personal goals?

Leaving the world a better place than one found it.

kowloon wrote: »

Improving the lives of others? By that criteria most of us are dead weight. If I fell down the stairs and snapped my neck in two today I can honestly say that the world would be a better place. Only a tiny handful of people would miss me and the rest of the population would have a tiny, tiny little bit more to go around. That tiny, tiny bit being my proportionally larger share than the rest of the planet because I live well.

Less cynicism and more common sense, please. We are not lemmings.

old hippy · 14-03-2013 02:02PM

darced wrote: »

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I used to like my job but the industry has changed a lot over the years. It's not what it used to be. I work there so I can pay the mortgage and so that myself and the wife can enjoy life when out of the work environment.

alphabeat · 14-03-2013 02:11PM

I would have thought being dead would have made someone a failure at life.

is it just me ? feel like im taking crazy pills here .

frank reynolds · 14-03-2013 02:14PM

old hippy wrote: »

I used to like my job but the industry has changed a lot over the years. It's not what it used to be. I work there so I can pay the mortgage and so that myself and the wife can enjoy life when out of the work environment.

fair play to ye Old Hippy, my sentiments exactly. you might not enjoy your work - that's why it's called "work". but the life it can give you when you put in the hours is great. travelling and living a nice life as well as working which keeps a good balance to keep your mind going too.

eamonnq · 14-03-2013 02:15PM

Killer Wench wrote: »

But I bet they are desirous of peace and stability.

Thanks, I learnt a new word today, had never come across 'desirous' until now.

libidoontour · 14-03-2013 02:30PM

someone who cheats on their partner of 5 years whom they have a house and child together

dd972 · 14-03-2013 08:18PM

alphabeat wrote: »

I would have thought being dead would have made someone a failure at life.

is it just me ? feel like im taking crazy pills here .

No, you're on the crazy pills :P

Dejvice · 14-03-2013 08:28PM

Failures
Functional alcoholics (look that one up, loads of you out there).
Men and women ´who let themselves go' (see functional alcoholics).
Parents who bring their kids to the pub.
Smokers (any dependency is a weakness).
Men who cheat on their partner.
Women who cheat on their partner.
Married couples not doing it after 10 years marraige (loads of you out there).

That about covers the lot. Most people are failures in some way.

eamonnq · 14-03-2013 08:30PM

Dejvice wrote: »

Men who cheat on their partner.
Women who cheat on their partner.
Married couples not doing it after 10 years marraige (loads of you out there).

Married couples who are not cheating after 10 years of marriage are failures ??

cartell_best · 14-03-2013 08:34PM

Nobody is ever a failure in life, well...not in the conventional terms. I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reason and that we are the author of our own life story, to a certain extent and sometimes, people take a direction in life that from an outsider point of view, we cannot or may never understand, that direction a person has taken. When we are growing up, all kinds of things have an influence on us and if you experience a certain amount of similar situations in life, it will of course play a part in the design of your existence. "Sitting on your arse all day and not working or contributing to society and having a sense of entitlement" is no more a failure than "the lack of showing compassion, empathy or just being a damn nice person" in any given situation. In either case, none is a failure. Life's a bit*ch... But for the most, we either get on with it or just become bitter.

feargale · 14-03-2013 08:34PM

Dejvice wrote: »

Failures
Functional alcoholics (look that one up, loads of you out there).
Men and women ´who let themselves go' (see functional alcoholics).
Parents who bring their kids to the pub.
Smokers (any dependency is a weakness).
Men who cheat on their partner.
Women who cheat on their partner.
Married couples not doing it after 10 years marraige (loads of you out there).
That about covers the lot. Most people are failures in some way.

So, you're against fags, women and drink. What do you do out of the way? The bookies? <:=>

Slo_Rida · 14-03-2013 08:37PM

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

What would you consider a failure?

Dying?

Dejvice · 14-03-2013 08:38PM

eamonnq wrote: »

Married couples who are not cheating after 10 years of marriage are failures ??

are you still living at home?

"doing it" = getting it on, nooky, sex.

Dejvice · 14-03-2013 08:39PM

feargale wrote: »

So, you're against fags, women and drink. What do you do out of the way? The bookies? <:=>

Guess I touched a sensitive issue for you.

Regards

eamonnq · 14-03-2013 08:41PM

Dejvice wrote: »

"doing it" = getting it on, nooky, sex.

Ah....why didn't you just say that in your post? It would have saved the confusion.

dark crystal · 14-03-2013 08:45PM

Dejvice wrote: »

Failures
Functional alcoholics (look that one up, loads of you out there).
Men and women ´who let themselves go' (see functional alcoholics).
Parents who bring their kids to the pub.
Smokers (any dependency is a weakness).
Men who cheat on their partner.
Women who cheat on their partner.
Married couples not doing it after 10 years marraige (loads of you out there).

That about covers the lot. Most people are failures in some way.

Not you though, I bet.

What makes someone a failure at life?

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